360-degree matte painting help needed! :)

#1

Hello all,

Just wondered if anyone had any help regarding perspective or any other possible issue regarding the creation of a 360-degree matte painting…

I’ve created matte paintings before but I need to make a 360-degree landscape and I’m not sure how the perspective would work - and wondered if there were any other stumbling blocks I should be warned about or pieces of advice anyone had?

Thanks

Sarah

#2

Hi, I was able to create a mattepainting which was like that before. Maybe I can help…

I have a few questions thoough,

  1. Is this a full environment matte? or your just doing the background?

  2. What kind of matte is it? Organic, City?

  3. Is it full 360 or somewhat near to it like 270 or less…

#3

Hey thanks!

Just to answer your questions -

  1. It’s really just the background

  2. It’s organic - Fields, hills, greenery

  3. It’s got to be 360-degree due to a 360-degree shot, unfortunately

Thanks again

Sarah

#4

I’d model it in Vue, Terragen (9.43 or 2) or Bryce. Render out either 6 views (up, down, front, back, left and right that can be combined into a cube map) or a 360 spherical projection and then detail up in Photoshop if necessary.
Hope this helps
cyphyr

#5

Hi, yes Vue is a very good solution especially since they have an open beta right now on their site. Try it.

Another way is to paint the images… if its really far like in a distance then you can just texture it on a cylinder. Nothing much happening there. Just stitch up a few texture and your done.

But if your expecting parallax then you have to model out a few objects and project them on separate layers of your painting.

If your trying to make a perspective or needed to show one, then try to look for a “panoramic perspective line.” on google. It think I found one before.

If that fails too, then model a few boxes with checkers texture in 3D app and render them every 30 degrees (up to 180 degrees). after that you can stitch those renders in photoshop to act as your guideline. I haven’t really tested this out yet but a friend of mine did and with motion blur, you won’t notice any difference.

Hope that helps

#6

Thanks so much for all your help - i’m going to try a few things you suggested and i’ll get back to you :slight_smile:

Thanks!

#7

check out Craig larson on Creative Cow After Effect tutorials and look at the tutorial regarding 3d cube world. If you use after effects this could be the way ahead.

360 degree mattes are notoriously difficult to do,

this is best handled as a team effort. There is a studio called stargate based in Canada that does the best 3d environments I have ever seen. Also there is Cafe FX that are blooming good.

Nice to see a fellow Brit on here.

Rich

#8

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