Submit to the 2d gallery?

#1

Hi, I finished this ‘matte painting’ a little while ago. I know it’s not technically a matte because there are people in it. It’s sort of a combination of photo manipulation and 2d drawn elements.

  I'm currently working on another 'matte' which will also incorporate 3d as well as 2d and photographic elements, which will be even harder to fit into the categories on the site. What do you guys think?
  
  [img]http://www.adamtscohen.com/Unsorted/Outpost%20Market-resize.jpg[/img]

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  [left]Thanks,
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#2

Yeah. We miss the 2.5d gallery… :smiley:

I’d say that those kind of combined tehcnique mattes are usually posted here and/or 2d gallery. Anyway the finished product here is often just the 2d part of it. 3d gallery seems to be more about “just 3d” and varying amout of post work with photoshop. Anyway, you’ll probably mention programs used for making the image, and could also mention those parts of the image which vere made with 3d or some other kind of making-of. Those are usually always interesting anyway. :thumbsup:

#3

Yeah, 2.5 would be nice :stuck_out_tongue: Or a general mixed-media one. I think I’ll submit it to the 2d gallery and see. I’m also working on a mixed-media video (here), but ‘animation’ is a generic enough bucket unlike the pic forums. Worth a try anyways :slight_smile:

#4

It was rejected. Huh, well that’s a bit disappointing. Oh well, not about to start changing my style to ‘fit’ categories :slight_smile:

#5

I’d say this is more of a matte painting than a 2d painting…if you get my meaning.

I don’t know exactly how much you’ve altered the image but having people in there is ok imo if you’re showing how you can integrate a matte with foreground elements/people etc.

Would be cool to see a wip, how you’ve adapted the source photograph.

#6 
  Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. Tried the 2D gallery because it seemed like the closest fit of the showcases.

Would be cool to see a wip, how you’ve adapted the source photograph.

  I'd be happy to! Will try to post one tomorrow during the day.
#7

matte painting / environment creation can combine any technique even miniatures, modeling, photography, 3D, 2D ,2.5D, you image fits here of course and you are always aloud to post in any another forums as well, cause it is such a wide technique that can fit any other forumns
and I agree this would be a finished matte painting shot, with final composite, and of course some source plates and breakdown will help people know what is you matte painting and what your source plate

#8

matte painting / environment creation can combine any technique even miniatures, modeling, photography, 3D, 2D ,2.5D…

And that is the awesome part of it. :slight_smile: “Today I feel like building giant alien city miniature in our livingroom…” But unfortunately it might make also accepting artwork to certain gallery here dizzy. Sending some making-ofs may actually help people to see the work done. From the submission instructions:

“When submitting work based on photographs, the original photographic reference should be submitted along with the artwork for consideration. Work that is suspected to be based on photographs may be rejected along with a request for additional reference materials.”

#9

Thanks for the replies. I’ve assembled a bit of wip stuff. Normally I save a lot of intermediate files as I work on pieces, but for this one I only had two. So, below are a) my photos that I ended up using in the piece, b) the only mid-way version I had for this one which is pretty far along–right around when I was having problems with the image composition, shown side-by-side with the final version and c) a gif showing the layers (that hadn’t already been combined) in the final piece.

 Also, [here](http://adamtsc.cgsociety.org/gallery/854790/) is a link to my cgs gallery version which is a bit bigger than the one I originally posted above.
 
 Please let me know what you guys think!
 
 -Adam
 
 [img]http://www.adamtscohen.com/Unsorted/Outpost%20Market%20WIP%20photos.jpg[/img]
 
 [img]http://www.adamtscohen.com/Unsorted/Outpost%20Market%20WIP%20early%20composition.jpg[/img]
 
 [img]http://www.adamtscohen.com/Unsorted/Outpost%20Market%20WIP%20layers.gif[/img]
#10

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