The Soul of sword, xu liang an (2D)

[stephendm]

Incredible...in pretty much every aspect of the picture. 5 stars. One very minor crit is the haze over the cliff behind the building is slightly overdone. Great work!

[prabath]

Pretty hefty for a first.This is by far the best first matte painting I`ve ever seen.Keep it right up.
Cheers!

Prabath.

www.prabath.cgsociety.org (http://www.prabath.cgsociety.org)

[prasa]

Wow! Great work and very good colorscheme :thumbsup:

[george0280]

Hi ! wo shi zhang baolong :)

this is really nice work, hope see more work from you ! Front page this one!

[Dekus]

wow.. dude... so beautiful! Very realistic! Great colors and atmosphere!

[BC1967]

Rflknvkl klnffd fkreer fffn fr fdjofqwq... aaawww! Words fail me. Beautiful work! Well Done!!!

[ruobing]

so good for this work!

[lildragon]

Splendid. Very epic feeling. Stunning for a first matte

{plugged}

[inky2]

Very romantic and beautiful mattepainting-fantastic first plan,very gentle fog,but may be rock and temple not live together.
But in any case-excellent!

[ritter]

Outstanding work !

[Akram]

very beatiful . nice job. thx

[waheednasir]

beautiful work...:thumbsup:

[TomBurns]

Ayaaaaaaaaaaah!

This is beautiful! Well done!

[tuuhia]

Nice color, nice light, nice work!!:thumbsup:

[rawwad]

Beautiful scene! I like it:thumbsup:

[criminal]

amazing work man!! i love it!!

[Jadetiger]

I'm curious how that guy is going to get up to that building with his horse. :D Very nice job on the lighting, fog, and waterfall.

[dunsoner]

This is really awesome work!:bounce: I like it alot 5 stars from me :buttrock:

[z1Lch]

Wow, what a beautiful image! I love the color of the sky against the foreground. Not bad for your first try I'd have to say!!

[tlggungor]

I am really love fall ... Thats amazing landscape painting...

[stephendm]

You made the Front Page dude! Not bad at all for a first matte! Congrats.

[Absinthe-Graphics]

Fantastic work! Realy excellent! :thumbsup:

[AngryAngryMan]

Gorgeous and epic.

I give it: :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[MSun]

wow, fantastic stuff, wow :applause:

[Dija]

Just beautiful!

[looky_by]

NEW B!! 无限敬仰啊!!

great work!
I very like this job!

[malibubob]

HOLY CRAP! i love it! just the kind of art i like to see and you have done a great job! no crit from me.

[flush77]

WOW~What a nice work it is!Pageantry scene!
I like the color and the light!

[jiangjiang]

:bounce: wow! so cool.

[hollowricky]

Thank you guys.
Mattepainting is a kind of new thing to me, I really need to practise more on it.

[teapot028]

Greaaaaat work!! i like this sunset feeling.the waterfall seems imply a kinds of
appetency in your heart.and your moral is the temple..obviously when you face to
the appetency ,your moral is so weak:))

[CH-haozi]

Hi ,I'm chinese too.:) Wow ,very nice work!:thumbsup: I love the color,the verve and the composition.

[elnady]

Nice mode
I like the birds it give it alot of life
great work man :)

[mirchiz]

WWOOOOWWW!! somebody give that guys 5 stars!! nw!!! here mine goes *****. nice work dude

[VishyP]

looks very interesting

[EhsanD]

wooow ... Its one of the best matte paintings I see in my life ...:eek::eek:
cant hold myself ... :eek:
...

[lwl525]

I can say nothing.o~I remember one word I should talk to you"ILOVEYOU",just one word, enjoy it though I'm a boy as well.

[curlyhair]

Great atmosphere.. 5 stars. You touched my ice heart, man.

[Djampa]

Astonishing image, I'd hang it on my wall.


Brilliant composition, great balance, great mood, overall GREAT !

Congratulations !

[Jassar]

That's a big 5 stars from me!

This painting is amazing, and I would love to see how you've made it:thumbsup:

-Jassar

[VietEmotion]

Awewome image, yes i also want to know your technique, great work:)

[liuyaming]

Nice work! throw off full-bodied eastward flavor. Sorry for may english

很不错啊，值得学习！

[CGadrian]

5 stars !!!

[Dark_Avenger]

So good atmosphere...

You dont need to practice much more... Dont be so modest! :thumbsup:

[Fuge]

Wow ! Amazing matte ! Did you use any references for this ?

[Little_Buddha]

:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:
WOW...... i cant breathe... please put me on a ventilater.

I wish i knew what to say... Nice , Brilliant, Amazing words like these are an understatement for such a work.

[coochaki]

wow.. really nice atmosphere!
:thumbsup:

[DaVee]

Gorgeous, Many details were eyes can stand a minute dbefore passing to an other.

David.

[Flunky3D]

Great work!
Love the atmosphere and the colors.

5*:thumbsup:

[TinTinloveInzaghi]

:thumbsup: WOW~It's very very beautiful!!
It's so shock!!great work!
I love the picture! keep it up! :bounce:

[Spc]

WoW.
Incredible atmosphere.
5 Stars.

:love:

[guowei]

very nice work!
棒!

[rajasekharan]

beautiful......beautiful.......simply and truly beautiful.....:)

[Abyssis]

...just great...very impressive image :thumbsup:
(4++/5...)

-cheerZ- :wavey:

[TheCheshireCat]

Great work, so many awesome details. I just found a new desktop wallpaper.
Please, if you happen to write any tutorials, notify me at tomsegal@gmail.com (http://forums.cgsociety.org/tomsegal@gmail.com). Thanks!

[Agrippa]

Excellent work,

love the ambience created by the mist, gives a sort of epic feeling.
Great for a first time entry..

keep it up..

[cwb526]

good work!
这张画的意境非常美！

[scrawnypaws]

A commendable effort. You'd be better off not compositing color images, though; it's impossible to match the grain and histogram, especially whan you're using source images at different scale.

It's easier to do the same in grayscale, paint over and patch up all the holes and then start in color, using your color refs as refs. Also, it's easier to judge values in grayscale. If you convert your image to grayscale, you'd see the temple is too dense compared to the rocks beside it and the back is again too dense compared to the foreground.

Same for colors; very often compositors (if it's a 2D or 2.5D matte) need to resample and recontrast your matte. There's always a risk histo spikes would show up as blots of strange color here and there since your source shots would come from different digi-cams.

And the last but not the least. Keep an eye on the key light position in your source shots. The light direction on the temple and the rocks doesn't match the rest of the image. The horseman and the the cliff it stands on get their highlight from a much lower source than the sky shows; the temple an the rocks get it from a right-hand sideways source.

But never mind, on one of my gigs (it was a French film) the director asked for godrays coming from two different directions at the same time and nobody died.
Cheers.

[guillermorohe]

Incredibles scene
your firt matte painting:thumbsup:

[FioreSSj]

Awesome! Great piece! :applause:

[t1z10]

Really incredible image man.

Congratulations, you have so much abilities.

[IllustriousWarriors]

Great work, very nice depth. Really pulls you in. 5 stars.

[nolxev]

Incredible...! Great atmosphere...

[bobbyanimator]

That was great work.verry nice.

Good job.:bounce:

[shellyz]

Fantastic effect and feel!
Love the waterfall and frog(or rather, the light). Keep it going! :)

[PeterSanitra]

I realy like it. the mood is nice. maybe the is something strange with perspective on the temple, but overall is fantastic. realy like the atmosphere, fog, clouds and coloring.

[ICHOMA]

Wonderfull color and detail.
I like it very much.

want to see more of your work.

regards

[JoyStar]

really poetic :arteest:

[ienrdna]

simply stunning

[caveaudio]

From this point on, you should know that you have what it takes to become one of the great matte painters. keep it up.

[TheFightingGoddess]

I've been away for a while and at my coming back I'm finding works like this!

It leaves me breathless!!!
It's really PERFECT for me...12 stars out of 5!!
I'd like to draw and paint like you do!
Fantastic!! :love:

With admiration.
Maria

[esternocleidomastoideo]

Beautiful! Great job with the light and the details of trees and the rocks.

[rebrov]

contact Zhu Feng, you may find job in his studio

[eliment]

Very beatiful one the background like the background...

[*crazycat*]

Great, 5 stars.:thumbsup:

[Lotek]

Very very nice. it's like and Epic Picture.

[darkredcrow]

i have to agree it is amazing. the atmospheric perspective is a nice touch but like the first guy said the fog right after the waterfall is too much. some detail there then fading into the atmospheric perspective would be good. pluss i think you need to add something, sadow or something behind the waterfall on the rock wall to make the waterfall pop out. give it some depth. and thats as far as i can nit pick it. keep it up

[suning]

太漂亮了,很喜欢.

希望能创作出更好的作品,谢谢分享...

[Nekromantik]

Great work! I like it.
By the way,do you play the game "SoulCalibur". I like it too ^ ^

[zhegesha]

wow,great!!!wow,great!!!great!!!wow,great!!!great!!!

[Astorlia]

It looks like a color chinese wash. Great work!

[jeewu]

http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/52308/52308_1162438856_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/52308/52308_1162438856_large.jpg)

Title: The Soul of sword
Name: xu liang an
Country: China
Software: Photoshop

In chinese Kungfu, Sword the is the most distinguished weapon.

It is my first Mattepainting work, I really need more practice on that. and any critique from you guys is welcome. Thanks.


wow cool ,much feeling work,very nice
Forms the striking contrast by the character with the nature ,

by jeewu (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=442721)

[Stalsby]

excellent!! love the compostition!

[wycren]

very nice! it's amazing that it's your first mattepainting. I am from China too and now in canada. hope to contact you online.

[FredGambino]

Thats great, the only thing I would say that for me the background looks a little too airbrushy, a bit more texture or volumetric feel to the haze might help, otherwise, super job!

[gureiduson]

WOW! Great... first matte!?!?!? OMG!!! I'm wondering when you do the 2nd, 3rd, etc.

[quanhuying]

我好象在火神里看到过这张画.
在这里也见到了。
说实话,非常喜欢你的这种大场面,很大气呢!

[rengod]

I'm prond of you! looking forward your new artwork.

[Frikandel]

Looks awesome! :thumbsup:
I really like the waterfall, house on the mountain and the landscape on the background.

[acyaws]

Breathtaking.... I would love to have a pinch of your talent!

[black_bird]

WOW! It's been a while since I've gotten back into the forum and just seeing this painting makes me awe inspired to get back to painting! you did an amazing job!

-Lisa

www.lisacermak.com (http://www.lisacermak.com)

[shuangwen]

the imposing manner is broad ??,?????!

[talenzz]

太有感觉了，great job

[JohannesThe3D]

I am impressed. I like everything in the image.

[Turkish Cats]

...被震撼到了!!...Excellent!!

[dongxie811]

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