Matte painting/Concept painting

[el patator]

perfect :drool:

[ThirdEye]

No crits, it's perfect :surprised I really love the hue tone!

[Per-Anders]

amazing :) that's a stunning work you've got there :beer:

[Spliff_Richards]

Very nice colors and detail. It does look like another Rivendale :)

[wgreenlee1]

Love it!!!!

[kaktuswasser]

genius!

[BgDM]

FAN-FRIGGIN-TASTIC!! :thumbsup:

BgDM

[eLm0]

first prize first prize first prize
:beer:

[Brent Turbo]

There's nothing to be said about this. Your art speaks for itself. Absolutely stunning!

[tazmanian]

hi my friend henrik ..... that was awesome man!!!!!:bounce:

[William GUiLE]

Absolutely perfect :bowdown: .
Tell us what planet you are from, you can't be an human:curious:

[HieSpike]

Very good indeed,
Nice atmosphere and lighting.
It would definitely fool me in a Theater!

Only criticism is the greenery in the foreground center...the green mossy stuff looks a little "weird"


keep up the good work.

Peace,
Kane

[Flaviosen]

sanslöst snyggt.....skriv en tuturial och gör oss lägre varelser goa å glada :]
:beer:

loosly translated

WIKKED!:thumbsup:

[ThePuppetMaster]

beautiful. I luv it. Can you show the pics you used and what you painted? By the way, you're site is awesome.

:thumbsup:

[henrik]

Thanks all, I'm glad you like it!

nimal> Where have you been my friend. Work is going well I hope?

William> From a small planet called "dream" ^_^

ThePuppetMaster> Sorry, I can't show you the plates. Most of the work was in putting all the different images together, and make it look like a whole picture, without any seams. The castle is entirely painted, so is most of the water and some of the grass in the valley...There's also paint to tie all the original photographs together, cut n paste alone won't do the trick.
Basically, there's paint and photos mixed all over the place...

Res is at film res, around 2k wide.

[ThePuppetMaster]

edit - cool! hope too see more of this stuff sometime. :D

[MIRVISUALS]

What can you say to help improve a beutifully composed picture like this? I wont even do an attempt.... :)

The thing that makes the picture EXTRA interesting is the "dead" tree in the foreground. Im thinking: Why is it there? There probably is trouble in the kingdom....It makes the picture tell more of a story. Well, I probably don't have to tell you this :)

The color and shape of it contrasts very good with the rest of the picture.

How do you go about it when you collect reference pictures? How do you keep this part of the job from not taking 300 days? I always have trouble finding good reference material....

-Reddikk von Frukt

[soundwav_]

B - e - a - u - T - i - f - u - L ...

[Greenlief]

Looks like paradise. This is incredible. I LOVE matte paintings, they are just so dang beautiful. Too bad I cannot paint!

Could you go into more detail on how you composited this? You mentioned using real photos and digital paint? Just curious as to how one would achieve such a result.

[jussing]

This rocks my socks off. :buttrock: :eek: :thumbsup:

(he-he... and so do all these little animated smilies ;) )

I went to your web site immediately after you posted the aircraft carrier, and THIS is the exact picture which caught my attention. It's really... shit, I can't articulate it. I'm speechless. You rock. Totally.

But like the others say - you HAVE GOT TO show us some WORK IN PROGRESS, we don't care if there's "paint and photos mixed all over the place", just show us SOMETHING!! ANYTHING!! (please?)

We're dying for it... :drool:

Cheers,
- Jonas

[Bluplet]

Nice! But I'm not too sure about the castle itself. It looks like it's being looked up at instead of down upon it.

[freddy7133d]

turly amazing! looks like a scene right out LOTRs......
:applause: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :applause:

[Slurry]

Wow. Absolutely stunning. Great composition and layout. The atmospheric haze really helps blend it all together.

Keep posting yur stuff so we can drool over it! :eek:

Slurry

[CGmonkey]

I don't need to say any words do I?

:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

[CiF]

Sublime work !!!

but I agree with bluplet about the castle perspective, even if it doesn't trouble this beauty !!!

congrat'

[rayz]

absolutely stunning i cant believe my eyes ......... its soo good:eek:

[Johnlittle]

Beautiful. A wonderful piece of work. It's really great to look at,and that's the best compliment I can pay to someone.
I think the only way it could be better is if it was in real time 3D and we could see a fly through,with closer looks at all the beauty and some extra up close details of the castle.
Great work.:beer:

[dark_lotus]

Thats really beautiful, I really like that.

Just stunning.

[dobermunk]

There is only one (very minor) thing that I could offer as critique here: the top of the dome melts into the much more distant background. I think it might pop into the center more with a subtle highlight (specular rim) responding to the the light source coming in from the right.

Like I said, very minor. Very beautiful image. I want to rent a room on the river side!

[Kulu_Kulu]

this one and the other paintings on your site are magnificent !!
:applause:

kulu

[spr0g]

beautiful work
*dribbles*

just like something out of LOTR, so no complaints here :D

[CarlCampbell]

I'm totally blown away! Your colour is perfect, your composition is unbelieveable! I'm trying to get over that it isn't a photograph! I know its not, of course, hehe.
Btw, those other MPs in your site... have those been used in films of any sort? The reason I ask this is because of all the actors and all that.

Oh, and :drool:

Carl :beer:

[henrik]

Thanks again all!

I do agree to some point that the castle maybe should be more obvious, but I chose to "hide" it. The explanation is still I wanted to keep it quite subtle, and make everything merge...
About the castle perspective...maybe you're right. I think it's good enough as it is. Thanks for your point though.

Carl> Well it IS a photograph...It's based upon the plates. Can't show them though, they were given to me.
The ones with the "Mill" logo are done for "Pyramid", a one hour long BBC documentary/fictional film shot on 35 mm.
The new matte painting is a matte/concept painting for Framestore CFC, not used in film though.

The images have been used as prints in the book based on the film. Book can be found here. I did the cover as well.

Amazon link (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1552977196/qid=1041779061/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-1593100-4848139?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)

[urgaffel]

Goshdarn Henrik, that's quite nice ;) What's it for?

[steverage]

Beautiful mate - absolutely beautiful!!!

Lemme see more!!

[Projectkmo]

holy cow, thats realy fantastic...I had to go look at your web site...more great stuff...I was so entranced, I almost forgot to go to work on time, lol...

great stuff!! :applause:

[Dr. Bang]

what the **** man, this is a piece of shit.

Joking Henrik, i always in love your art since i first see it in around 1999 or 2000. You're too talented for your age!!

[stephen2002]

very, very impressive.

Now make a 3D version. ;)

[HapZungLam]

:applause: :surprised

[arjun]

Awesome. I do have a small crit though, but not at all on the painting. If you look at the dome of the temple it looks like it was saved as a distorted jpeg. I mean, of course you might have to do it sometimes, but it seriously deserves to be saved without any distortion. Good job though! :buttrock:

[Joviex]

Originally posted by HieSpike
Very good indeed,
Nice atmosphere and lighting.
It would definitely fool me in a Theater!

Only criticism is the greenery in the foreground center...the green mossy stuff looks a little "weird"


keep up the good work.

Peace,
Kane

Very very nice work. You do this for a living? If not, hope I can hire you sometime soon :0


Always amazing to see how long it takes someone to have a gripe :)

This time around made it to 10 compliments before a crit.

[Joviex]

Originally posted by dobermunk
There is only one (very minor) thing that I could offer as critique here: the top of the dome melts into the much more distant background. I think it might pop into the center more with a subtle highlight (specular rim) responding to the the light source coming in from the right.

Like I said, very minor. Very beautiful image. I want to rent a room on the river side!

Heh.... Hard to make a specular highlight when the entire valley is in shadow :) Notice the sunline on the leftside mountain?

I think it is beautiful. I am always suprised how people have this and that to offer though. Always good I suppose, but it shows no one ever just takes in the beauty.


-- "Working towards a 100% cynical soceity by 2025"

[gmask]

Awesome, Truly masterful. Can I ask how long it took you to do this?

[leigh]

That is truly beautiful work! This piece has really moved me - I feel genuinely inspired.
Absolutely amazing work :applause: You are extraordinarily talented!! Thank you for sharing this with us!!

[Null_Object]

Reminds me of rivendale:buttrock:

[henrik]

Glad you like it!

Dr.Bang> Nice to see you around here! When will you get that website of yours up? I've been waiting to see it for a few years now I believe...^^

amorano> I try to do this for a living, yes. If I succeed, well I don't know..heh

gmask> A few days, effective time around 15-20 hrs....

Thanks again! Any more questions, just ask...

[platypus]

so has WETA contacted you to offer a job yet???

beautiful

:buttrock:

[Scooby]

Great Image!

Your picture looks very good!

Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing it with all of us!

[Thorse3D]

Hey....

Ur work rocks. And now, an stupid question... What is exactly a matte painting... how u do it ? Do u have some pases until the final image ? What was ur inspiration ?

Keep it doing this excelent work

:applause: :applause:

[gmask]

Originally posted by Thorse3D
Hey....

Ur work rocks. And now, an stupid question... What is exactly a matte painting... how u do it ? Do u have some pases until the final image ? What was ur inspiration ?

Keep it doing this excelent work

:applause: :applause:

Matte refers to mask or alpha channel. In terms of classic visual effects for films backgrounds would be rendered with paint on glass with an area left blank so that a mask or transparent area could be created. In this transparent area live action could be optically printed through the glass plate. These effects were put to great use in the first Star wars movie. The scene were Obi Wan is turning off the tractor beam is a good example of this effect. The environment is a matte painting and the control panel is a set.

Even though optical effects such as this are used less than before the term has stuck.

[Soljarag]

as already stated before- Absolutely amazing :thumbsup:

[valu]

Woow , give me the direction , couse I wanna go there to vacations . Very nice work

[Technofreak]

..i got 2 crits....
1. seems the perspective of the foreground to background
is a bit off..more so with the trees on the left...the rocks seems not as much...it is because it appears the fg was shot
from below ...looking up...making the trees not exactly pointing
perfectly skyward....maybe a quick perspective [free transform]
would fix some of that in photoshop?

2. the lump of trees near the bottom left of the castle look
a little faded or erased with a soft brush, it gives it a bit away
where the seam is ....

thats it, nice work :buttrock:

[Neural Riptide]

:eek:

wow.

Definitely keep making stuff like that. It is the best.

[derelict]

one word... Fantastic!:bounce:

[Rendan66]

WOW.... it took me a couple of minutes to pick me jaw off of the floor. simply amazing. continue the great work

[birbidouille]

really nice

[lildragon]

I dunno Henrik, you come back here post two of your works and just happened to receive two awards for them in under 15 posts :surprised

Nonetheless I cannot say anything about this piece that hasn't already been said, it's simply drop dead gorgeous friend.

You have received your 2nd CGtalk choice award (the fastest yet ;)) . Please feel free to display this image anywhere you like! Congrats again.

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P.S. if you need a different background, please send me a PM with the RGB values.

salud

[diazgl]

AMAZING. This is art embodied or rather, empainted. Absolutely a mindblower.

And now, the crit:

All I can see, is the contrast between feel and quality between the rocks on the left and the background. It seems that the rocks are true picture, whereas the background (castle, river and everything else) have a more artistic feel to it. Could you explain which parts are drawn and which ones are photos?

[Gentle Fury]

holy crap!!!

when i saw that pic on the front page i figured it was an article on the ROTK movie...............that is AMAZING WORK!!!!!

now take what you did and make them into alpha plates and do a forward push like you would see in an establishing shot like this.....add some footage of birds flying and the water moving........would be freakin sweet!!!!!

GREAT WORK Keep it up!!!!!

[CarlCampbell]

Originally posted by Gentle Fury
do i forward push like you would see in an establishing shot like this

:surprised

Carl :beer:

[New]

Awesome picture, the castle (perfect painted) is fully integrated. I notice a sharp transition from the "first plane" to the castle´s one, but well is to criticize for criticizing. ;)

Boh... perfect work! ;D

[BRUTICUS]

how bout a fly-by ;)

[Gentle Fury]

Originally posted by CarlCampbell
:surprised

Carl :beer:

everyone is entitled to one typeo right?

[CarlCampbell]

No, no, you don't understand. I'm saying that I don't understand what you meant :D

Carl :beer:

[Gentle Fury]

ok, well the i should have (and is now) been an a

basically what i meant was......take the layers that it took to make the image....make them into seperate layers with alpha channels, then bring them into your favorite 2d composite app and do a forward push..........most establishing shots like this in a movie have a slow moving forward motion to the camera. using the foreground midground and background images at dif "distances" from eachother and have the camera push thru them making it look like a real scene.

it takes a lot more then 3 layers to really make it look convincing but you understand what i mean.

Its basically the equivellant of glass plate matte work......but now it is done digitally :)

[janhath]

Originally posted by BRUTICUS
how bout a fly-by ;)



Yes a flyby in 3D would be the only way it could be better. With closer details shown to the castle. Cool, cool 2D work however.


:beer:

[tchook]

very beautiful artwork.
the atmosphere is great its like a forgotten place found after several days
of travel in a deep forest (wow)
but for critic

i think you can work on the edge of the right cliff (the shape behind the tree).
and the shape of the left clif when its joining the ground.
if i were you (but i m not :))
i try to put a big tree on the bottom left of the image (something dark an massive)---->i think the focus point (the castle) will be enhanced.

anyway excellent work.

[wurp]

Im sure it rocks as much as the rest of your work, but the link to the image doesnt seem to work :(

[Widler]

Yeah i was looking at this thread yesterday and I was able to view your attached image, but today for some reason, it looks like a broken link.

Anyway, kudos to you, I love the image nice imagination, and colour work.

The cliffs on the left side of the image seem to be at the wrong angle to me though. To me they look as though you are looking
up at them (low angle), but combined with the rest of the, composition it seems unrealistic. (The angles)

[unrealwarfare]

amazing

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