May 2015 - Jon Segress

#1

Hi all, looks like a fun one this month. I did a quick paint over last night to start to get some ideas going. I want to add in some cars that have been thrown into the building.

#2

Here’s a rough WIP. Lined up a scene in maya and starting to intergrate textures and renders over my intitial paintover, starting in the BG and working my way foward. Very rough, but would love to hear peoples thoughts.

#3

Looks good, Jon, I like that you’re using some 3D elements, and the cast light contrasting against the darker building on the right draws the eye quite effectively.

Personally I find camera matching in Maya a painful experience, especially with a FOV like this, did you use the EXIF data from the original image to match the camera attributes in Maya?

#4

Thanks Drewsen, I just matched the camera by eye in maya. I don’t think it’s totally on but hopefully close enough!

Here is my final, I got caught up with things and couldn’t put in much time this month. I think it looks more concept and less matte painting but I wanted to just post what I had.

Cheers and there is some great work this month!

Full res link
http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag299/jsegress/Segress_Challenge_11_007_zpsvd0fgpk5.jpg