CGTalk - Agrona City WIP

AdamTSC

06-05-2008, 03:05 AM

Hello, I'm new to the Matte Painting section here. I have some experience with photo editing, but this is my first attempt at a true Matte work. I may eventually use it in an animation I am planning, but am certainly enjoying this medium. Here is my first attempt at the city matte:

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/3662/agronamaincityv1sf5.jpg

What I've done so far:
Grabbed a photo I took of Takayama a while back; extended the canvas; deleted the sky; modified the levels and colour balance; added a simple gradient for the sky; gave a first crack at adding a large moon; added a 3d structure in the city.

What do you guys think / suggest for improvement?

Thanks,
Adam

JJASSO

06-05-2008, 06:18 PM

Hey Adam , welcome to the forums, well it's a nice start for matte painting you have a good aidea of integration but I think it can be improved more, I'm not sure about your 3d structure matching the photo lenear perspective, also I would add more texture detail to the moon and get rid of the perfect CG edge and blur it a little. some other more interesting architecture can help too
good luck in matte painting and keep showing the community your work

AdamTSC

06-05-2008, 10:11 PM

Thanks Jaime for the nice welcome, and tips which were spot on. I will continue to post updates as I continue.

AdamTSC

06-06-2008, 03:17 AM

Bit of an update: I was going to work tonight on improving the individual graphical elements, but realized I have a larger compositional problem. The animation I might use this in will be using an HD Image Aspect Ratio, and though I intentionally made the image tall for vertical panning, it was just too thin.

Here is a sketch I just finished on expanding the image width:

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/3897/agronamaincityv3et8.jpg

This shows how the matte would might appear in frames using an HD IAR:

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5776/hduh4.jpg

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