Trollshaw Forest matte

[vENTANA]

Hello!

I'd love any advice and crits towards finishing this matte painting which I produced during the recent (wonderful!) Matte Painting class with David Luong.

It's not there yet, esp around the campfire area and I'd love to hear opinions please. Many thanks :)

Hey Felicity, how ya been? You took David's class again.... cool.

[felicitymoore]

Heyo! Nice to see you again :wavey: Yep, couldn't resist a second go with David - his guidance is awesome :)

[vENTANA]

Yeah, wish I could have done the same but RL is getting in the way.

Ok, well, I'm not sure but I think that light area to the left is too bright and competing with the campfire/sunset. I find my eye dancing between the two. Other then that I love it.

[Pixelatedkiwi]

Hiya!

Nice to see a fellow Kiwi artist on here :)

I think its a beautiful picture, the only thing I can see is the campfire does need some work, its hard to tell what is around it at the moment, are they tents? maybe try defining the terrain around it a little more with some cool silhouette shadows cast from the objects around the campfire?

I also feel that the campfires light is fighting against the sunset at the moment, you could try to raise the height of the trees around the campfire's enclosure to create a darker area untouched by the suns rays this would really separate out campfires light as an individual light source.

All in all I think it has a fantastic overall mood, very tranquil and LOTR like (thats a win in my books lol) keep up the good work! :)

[felicitymoore]

Hello,

Gene, thanks for that. I'll have a play around with that side and see what happens. Thanks for the input :)

Hey Pixelatedkiwi! Hello to Snell's Beach! Thank you for taking the time to respond too, I agree with that about the campfire, it's been the thing I've most struggled with - such a small detail and often the hardest to get across. I'm sure your suggestions will work - I'll get to it!

Thank you both so much :)

[felicitymoore]

Sorry about the delay getting back to this.

*Its lost some of the evening light value in this upload - mmmm will look at that...it's more sunny on my monitor.


I've worked with the camp and fire - one of the issues I think is that I'm unsure how to emphasise the camp further while not making too much more of it - more detail seems to make it too clear in some ways, esp given the distance. I think some gentle movement on the smoke and possibly distant singing may help! but that would be cheating! ;)

[Pixelatedkiwi]

It certainly looks a lot better, you could add things around it at the correct detail level for that distance detail like tents, equipment or horses/people silhouettes, this would identify it as a campfire without adding details that would loose your distance perspective.

[felicitymoore]

Heyo :) Thank you! Yes - horses are a good idea I like that. I need to open out the camp area a bit more; I wish I'd set it up for a camera move! Even a subtle one using 2.5D would have been nice and helped reveal more too.
:)

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