Charlie Jade mutliverses matte, Benoit Ladouceur (2D)

[PixelPlay]

Incredibly real! Now, which is the reference image and which is the matte painting? They both look like photos. Great work!

[thenextside]

Hey Ben,
Nice work. I really like the second one. Would be cool to see the final comp. Keep em coming!

Cheers,
Tim

[carbonmatter]

Hey Ben!

Well done! It's a cool opportunity to do parallel universe images - I really like the crater version since it has more drama.

Nice to see your portfolio on CG too - nice work, I like the Vexcor tower too. Let us know when you've posted your reel!

[rubenmontecinos]

These images are great! you got real landscapes.

[SOE digital]

which is the reference image and which is the matte painting?

I figured they were both matte pantings.

[goulei]

wow .....look as very real...

[jason-slab]

great work, it's nice to see our landscape being put to such good use:)

jason

[loocas]

I'm a big fan of matte-paintings in general and these are some fantastic examples of great matte-painings! :thumbsup:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/rating/rating_5.gif from me man :applause:

[Djampa]

Oh my... very impressive.


thnks so much for sharing with us.

I respect very much you, Pascal, and all Ubi team, you guys deliver us a lot of digital beautiness.

Congratulations on this masterpiece.

[warpy]

looks too real, 5 stars :P

[YoYoYohan]

Looks great, but what's real, and what's fake? I suppose the buildings are fake, and the rest is a photo?

[WMBrown]

Truly wonderful! i agree with the others, i can't tell what you did, would it be allright to see the originals?

[JackZhang]

lol i remeber this image, and you as well, as you spend a saturday giving us a tutorial. it's been almost a year now, amazing how time go fast. (i was one of Patrick Cabana's students)
nothing much to say since i said my "OH MY GOD" the first time i saw it!

p.s do you mind if i add you to my personal network? *eye blinking*

[APD-Jack]

Excellent job.. :thumbsup:

There is a little defect that could be seen only when you look at the larger version; In second image, left side of the overlay's outside has some contours..
Anyway, perfect matches you achieved in this work...

Congrats

Keep good working :thumbsup:

[yellowdog]

Wow thnx all for the great comments... I'll dig out the original plates when I get home tonight and paste them.

ADP_jack: We where on a very tight deadline on that project... that mostly explains why in a lot of places we had (sadly) to cut corners a little. Once the shot looked good of the HD monitors, we had to move on to the next one.

JackZhang: Wow, a flash from the past... time does really fly. That was a really fun day for me too. I love to give seminar classes like that. When it comes to the personnal network, I would gladly be part of it !! Just send me an invite!!!

WMBrowm / Yoyoyohan: Basically, the bottom 20% of the images are original plate (brownish rocky outcrop in the desert one and the grassy bit with huge white rock in the forrest one), the rest (mid section) is painted, with bit and pieces of painted over live references plates to fill the BG with recognisable South African elements (mountain chain in the back)... I will post the original platestonight for you guys to see.

jason-slab: You live in such a wonderfull country... I was always a bit angry during our work on CJ that we never got to go and see it for ourselves, we had to rely on what the production crew sent us... and the references they sent us where alway breath taking. Just love thoses vistas from table mountain.

carbonmatter: Hey Dan !! Am working on my web site ... it will be online shortly, I'll put my reel on it for you guys.

thenextside: Hi Tim, I'll find a final comp to post tonight at the same time as the original plates...

[Raphael-Lacoste]

Front Page !!
Yhihaaaaa!

you deserve it man, I can't wait you post some pop stuff :)

[abhifx]

MASTER PIECE....:scream:

i just wanted to ask that how and where do you find all these images for matte?? i.e. trees and all, or you only click it by camera ??

again congratulations... keep it up.

[roqsteady]

whoa you should show some wires man im stomped...

[yellowdog]

Like I promised, here is an exemple of the type of raw plates we got from the film crew in Capetown...

Raph: thx man!! yep, next time it's pop3 stuff and rainbow 6...

abhifx: I usually use my digital camera to gather a big part of my reference material, for Charlie Jade though, we had a photographer in South Africa sending us footage and pictures on a regular basis... When it comes to trees and stuff, I live near Mont-Royal (a small mountain in the middle of montreal) so a lot of the green stuff comes from there. The internet is also a good place to gather material (many royalties free images sites and stock footage site out there) but it's a lot more touchy... because of copyrights issue.

[yellowdog]

Oops, forgot someone... roqsteady: I would love to be able to show the wireframes for the reactor but I don't have them anymore, the 3D scenes for these shots stayed at Cinegroupe when I left. If find the reactor in some other scene files I'll post it right away. :)

[anostudio]

Wow Just Wow

[abhifx]

well thanks for shareing this info with us yellowdog....

njoy matte painting.. ;)

[stavrevstefan]

U r genius...Total respect

How in the name of God is posible to ahieve this on a computer...

I am 17 years old and workin 3d , but i can't resist asking u : What did u do on my age to get to that level?

Pelase recomend me some tutorials or books for 2d,i wanna improve my 3d skills....

good luck and keep explodin...

[yellowdog]

thx again for all the great comments!

abhifx: I'm always happy to share what I know... hope it helped.

stavrevstefan: give yourself time... you'll get there :) (it took me a while to get to this point). What did it take to get to that point? As far as I can remember I have always been drawing. At around your age I started carrying around a sketchbook with me at all time, I used it to draw everything around me (from people and objects to scenes and perspective references... including any idea that ran through my head). When it comes to references and tutorials, you can look at theses books: "Perspective for comic book artists" by David Chelsea is usually one I recommend my drawing student, the "dynamic anatomy" by Burn Hogarth is also very good, Anything by Andrew Loomis is also excellent. I also like the d'artiste series from ballistic press (the matte painting book is excellent.. so is the digital painting one). Gnomon workshop also has a series of amazing tutorial dvd wich I find very inspiring. hope this helps !! :)

[Archangeluus]

Great to see your stuff on the web B. Very cool and very crisp. Kudos!!

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