April 2015 - Michaël Holvoet

#1

Hi,

Here is my first WIP for this month.
I choose to use some photos I took in Tokyo 2 years ago

#2

A little progression :rolleyes:

#3

A new progression.
As I had not shot many building in tokyo, I use some building texture found in cgtexture.

#4

Looking good so far, the roof in the foreground is a nice touch.

#5

Thank you very much Andrew for your comment !

#6

hi all,

another progression for this month !

If you have some comments, I would be happy to receive them :slight_smile:

#7

That graffiti! I would say look out for the stretching of your photos. The brick wall on the fg left is too much stretched, just find a different photo for that and replace it! Also I think your sky could receive more light, All the clouds are quite toned down, whereas you have a really hard shadow going. Keep comping all your detail in there!

#8

Hi, thanks a lot for your comment !
I am totally agree with you. The brick in FG has been changed, and I made some correction for the sky. For now, the colors/lights are not the final colors/lights, I will focus on that at the end.

#9

The biggest thing here is the large purple area of the sky on the left, which doesn’t match the scene. Go with more of the right part of the sky for it’s entirety, however, take note the lighting direction of your current sky is not the same as the scene. It’s more right side lit rather than top lit in your sky.

#10

Thanks David for your feedback ! Really much appreciated :slight_smile:

For light direction, you right, I had not pay attention to this detail.
The purple area was to localized the following, the fujiyama.
Maybe it’s still not a good choice ?

#11

I do like the idea of the eruption, however I think the smoke is too purple, which may work better at sunset than late afternoon or midday.

It may also read better against either a clear sky, or a sky with horizontal whispy clouds, to better contrast against the billowing vertical smoke.

Overall though I like where this is heading, especially the volcano. :thumbsup:

#12

Many thanks for your comment.

After you and David, I think that purple is not a good choice. I will fix it asap :slight_smile:
The today’s news was talking about a volcano in chile, and the images was showing an orange smoke. Maybe I will take this way.

#13

Hello all,

I think it will be my last WIP until the final image (we are almost at the deadline :slight_smile: )

I still have a lot of work with textures, colors, perspective…

#14

The smoke on from the volcano looks much better, I like the subtle light coming through the roof of the arch too.

I feel as though scale-wise you might be better off using a small residential satellite dish as opposed to the one referenced from the large planetary ones.

Also watch out for some of the texture resolutions, as a few are much lower than others (you did mention you were still in the process of texturing, so these may change)

Looking forward to the finished product. :slight_smile:

#15

Hi everybody,

For this month I have learn a lot of, as for the 2 last month.
My third matte painting ever, let me know that incremental save is needfull !
In fact, my pc crashed and my work file was corrupted ! Shame on me, that was my only saved file :banghead:

:drool: Happyness, I had an old jpeg version, so I tried to do my best with this one, without all my hundred layers

I hope you will enjoy my final image !

See you next month :wink:

with link : https://www.dropbox.com/s/tasnqkr1itryqwt/skyline-vista.jpg?dl=0

#16

I have done the same thing many times, actually at the start of this months competition I downsampled my file to save for a WIP and forgot to undo it, ended up saving the file as the low res version, and had to redo it all.

I lost quite a few hours work, luckily it was in the very early stages.

I generally now keep about three files now, not only in case of the rare corrupted file, but if I accidentally merge a group or delete something, I can hopefully retrieve what I need.

Anyway, I am glad you had a JPEG, at least it wasn’t entirely lost, I like how this one turned out. :slight_smile:

#17

I will follow this workflow now :slight_smile:

I learned the lesson !

Thanks for your comment, and all previous comments, it was encouraging ^^