AWChallenge_ Matt Ellis

[everlite]

Hey Matt,

Yeh Children of Men is one of my favorite films, the matte work in there are great examples of invisible work.

Good luck mate :thumbsup:

Dave.

[Matellis]

Thanks David! I agree , one of the greatests movies out in a long while.

So here are some quick sketches so far. I will still do a bit more detailing before I get started on the mattes. I still want to figure out what kind of signs I want these to be and so on.

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/2761/concept0101xl1.jpg

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/1189/concept0201ix2.jpg

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/3479/concept0303lp7.jpg

Cheers!

[RQuack]

Nice concepts! I too was thinking something along the lines of a 1984 type thing with more of a dictator thing going on but we'll see now though. :hmm:

[Timmay]

Children of Men! Ahhh! Great idea.

Nice sketches too. It looks like the country needs soldiers? Against terrorists I presume?

[Akajork]

very nice:) you inspire me to go to work emediately! haha

[Matellis]

RQuack: hey man I am glad you like it! Yeah once i looked at these plates when viewing the challenge , that kind of idea popped right into my head , but dont think because my idea is along the same lines as your you have to change it! I want to see some concepts for you :D

Timmay: Thanks man! I was actually thinking more along the lines of police. When thinking about this concept a bit, I thought it would be interesting if they need lots of police to protect them from each other , but I guess I dont have to put that much thought into it since no one will really get that idea from the mattes.

Akajork: Hey man , I am glad my concepts got you moving! hehe I am looking forward to seeing your concepts and ideas.

I might detail these ones up a bit more this weekend I hope . But most of my time will be working on the Bridgetown matte I have been working on for 3 years now.

Cheers!

[JJASSO]

very nice concepts , I specially like the first and the third , will be cool too see those final matte paintings , keep up the good work

[Suirebit]

now that's thinking out of the box. Great concepts man...i like the integration of elements specially in 1st and third....shows creativity :)

[everlite]

Hi Matt,

Nice concepts, personally i'm leaning towards 1 and 2.

These are equally great, but i'd suggested running off a series of concepts with the time available, work up as many as you can, flip a few around, trust me the more you can do and the more ideas you can generate the better.

Dave.:thumbsup:

[divi]

awesome concepts :D i hope you leave dr evil in the final matte :]

[Matellis]

Hey thanks James , I will put a bit more work into concept two at some point today . Just try and help the composition a bit and create an interesting focal node.

Thanks Suirebit! I am glad you like them.

Hey David , yeah I think I will play around a bit with the compositions. I dont have a whole lot of free time but with the time I do have I hope to make some improvements :D

HAHAHA Divi I was wondering if anyone was going to nitice him there. When I was concepting I thought of the idea " What would the world be like if Dr. Evil killed Austin powers and took over the world! " but it was more of a joke while concepting. So I thought I would just throw him in there. I am always dying to add humor to my images but then I start to think that maybe it will distract from the image as a whole. Maybe someday when and if Im working in the industry I will add the humor to the work I do on my free time.

Cheers

[everlite]

Hey Matt, any updates :) ??

[Matellis]

Hey David ,
I put together the videos. Now I am just trying to figure out how I will do the tracking , as I have no experience doing that sort of thing. A little fustrating but I hope to have it figured out at some point. :D

I should have some updates within the next couple days . I have a couple portraits I have to get done and I need to put some more time into my bridge town matte. But very soon I hope!

Cheers!

[Matellis]

Now that I think about it , I guess i could show this. I wasnt going to post it until I worked on it more , but here is where I am at.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5928/concept0203kg4.jpg

[everlite]

Hey Matt,

http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/

fifth down :)

[Matellis]

Thanks David! thats a huge help. watched a bit of it so far and im really not so worried now. That was a god send , thanks a million :D

[everlite]

Yeh, pretty great. Check out the rest: http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html Need to scroll down.

[Matellis]

Sweet find! I will be watching quite a few of these in the coming weeks. I really need to get back into Aftereffects since I havent touched it in about 4 years. Again thanks a lot David. I owe you one!

Cheers :D

[miguelslo]

Great work, keep it up! :twisted:

[Chrike]

hey matt,

really nice work so far man!
I quite enjoy the fact that you post your wips as well, although you might not want to show all the stuff :D it´s just lovely to see where it starts and how it is evolving over time until it becomes a kickass final piece :)
keep up the good work!

chris

[Matellis]

Mihael: Hey thanks man! :D

Christian: Thanks! I hope to have the final concepts done by tonight. Things have been a bit stressful around here lately so I haven't been able to spend much time with these concepts as I would like. Thou everything will be staying pretty much the same , just some added details here and there. Then hopefully I can get started on the matte paintings tomorrow.

Cheers!

[everlite]

Hey matt, did you ever watch all those DVDs :) ???

Anyway, you have one concept which is good, on with the mattes i think. Remember photorealistic intergration is key to this one :thumbsup:

Dave.

[Matellis]

Haha hey David , nope havent watched them all yet. I tend to watch the ones that relate to what im working on and so far I probably only watched maybe half of them :D

So here an update of what I have so far.

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4125/concept0104vx6.jpg

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/893/concept0305fx7.jpg

Cheers!

[Rockhoppermedia]

The top one looks cool matt, though the bottom looks quite sterile. If you put in a shanty town (google Hooverville Great depression) or look at demolition man it would add a contrast to the sterile environment. Might lift the human drama a bit.

Cheers for helping me out on my WIP, hope I can reciprocate

Cheers

Rich

[RQuack]

Matt- GREAT ideas, love the top one, I say the more scaffolding and wires the better. I agree though with Rich, the first one has life, would love to see some more of that personality in the second one. :thumbsup:

[Matellis]

Hey guys thanks for the input. I am glad you like the first one and I will make sure to add some personality to the second . Right now I am just laying out the ground work for it, so I have something solid to work off of :D

Cheers!

[Chrike]

hey Matt!

I agree with Rich and RQuack!
Really good work on the first one so far!
I think the problem with the second one is that it seems like a totally separated area due to the concrete walls which kind of act like boundaries. As if you intend to treat this part of the image on it´s own without actually connecting it to the overall thing (background in that case).
It might help to put some graffiti on the walls to make it appear more as a viewer would expect it; or maybe get rid of the little part above the entrance to the tunnel.
then you would have a gap pretty much on eyelevel which allows to look at the city in the background!

keep em coming :)

chris

[Matellis]

Hey Christian , thanks for the input. I decided to put a little bit of time into the background. Hopefully this will help tie it all in.

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/8525/concept0306yr8.jpg

[Matellis]

Small update

Starting to add in the buildings for the mattes. I think some will change. But once I get all these in and I am happy with it , then I will start adding all the cords , signs etc etc.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6503/plate03tmatte02vc9.jpg

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5456/plate02concept05hk7.jpg

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6421/concept0307tg8.jpg

Cheers :D

[nickmarshallvfx]

Lookin great Matt, cant wait to see them finished! :thumbsup:

Nick

[Ivy00]

This is looking great I am so mad at myself for missing this challenge, just read about it today :)

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