Nothing to do with matte painting… but i’ve search for Abakan in google maps. And is interesting to note how perfectly in the middle of the continent you are. Geometrically speaking… you are in the belly of the world.
Just for curiosity any of this images are from your home place ??
Cheers and good luck on your studies.
norberto
Thanks for purchasing my CGTOD Dmitry, off to a great start so far and posting in this community is great to get extra eyes and feedback for you! 
Hey, this is really 50 km from Abakan. Mount Kun-tag. The coordinates in googlemaps 53.893819,91.320022. 
By the way I have done moodboard according to the instructions . I’m planning to do a project which will use landscapes of our region. I chose pictures and it seems encountered a small problem.
I’m working on removing the sky, and removing the noise. It turned out that all the pictures are very fuzzy, and some of them have a lot of noise. Tell me whether is it sufficient quality for Matte Painting?
I uploaded photos here
I upload arhive with original photos here. Because google did strong compressing pictures .
fotos have resolution - 4272x2848
The bulk archive is too large for me to download 
but if you’re experiencing problems with digital noise, give the Noise Ninja plug-in a chance. It can do magic sometimes. :eek:
Thanks alot for Plug-in! This one gave good result. I think I uploaded large archive for nothing. I re uploaded one example of pictures according to each problem.
I think I can use these pictures for midground or background, actually. It means I need come back for taking fotos with good quality
So, I performed tasks usage extraction tools and set extentions. My results:
Set extentions
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I hid ven, replaced sky and added gipsy wagon. Wagon was made in 3ds max.
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I’ll upload my sketches for Matte Painting a bit later.
Hio Dmitry,
Generally great extractions you did here…there’s the ol’ South Korea World Wide International picture of mine The buildings on the right of that look a little blurry though, be sure not to scale things beyond their original resolution much. Also the bottom trees have too sharp of an edge, give that a slight feather, and some lightwrap from the background, as well as a slight spill suppression of blue matte edge on the leaves. Keep it up!!
Hi David! Thanks a lot for your remarks. Techniques such as feathering, light wraping, and spill suppression gave good results. I’ll try use them in my works. Resolution of buildings really was poor quality. Seems I accidentally applied blur filter.
Ok, I converted images
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I fixed the sketch and did first setup of colors. Definite theme of story appears now. Turkic warrior who goes alone on rocky road in the hills. I’ll have opportunity take pictures in this neighborhood in near time yet. I’ll be able to take more epic fotos of the turkic walking warrior a bit later too.
During this week I made few version of may concept, And stoped on this picture. It morning time with light haze and bright sunshine.
I want hear your advices for improve this one. I feel pictire far from perfection;)
The Warrior and the dry tree i’ll add later, I still don’t have good reference, but i’m trying make 3D model of tree now. I’m planning take pictures man in armors with help guys who make the historical reconstruction. I still don’t have camera for shoot hi-res video, but I’ll try to find. I want to train compositing and shooting with blue or green screen for warrior. I hope it won’t take time.
I finally figured out how use curves. I made tune curves for each layer. And I almost danced for happiness when i saw result )). But at first i decided write this post.
It still needs to FX of atmosphere, haze, sunshine etc. but I’m happy day passed not for nothing. :))
In the completion of this week i post results of the replacement sky. I got a lot useful information. I understand that it is basis of technique, and not so difficult. But this knowledge changed my views at photosop, and collor correction. Thanks alot!
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Hey evrybody!
I still don’t have the warrior, but i finished do a tree. I have been spending about week for work on this one . I made collor correction in common for picture. But the tree is still poorly installed. I still have been working on. I’ll grateful for any criticism.
Watch out for the lighting when you add a new light source such as this moon in the back
Seema thanks a lot for your feedback. Unfortunately i didn’t have enough time for quick answers, but i value your notices and i’ll try to use them in my work. I centred on finalizing my matte and creation animation at now. Therefore i have to postpone my homeworks for time. I’ll remake day for night task a bit later.
Ok, this is my matte 2d in Photoshop.
and my animation test for 2d plates in After effects.
Hey everybody! I’m running forward a bit. I changed mountains on BG, at now they drawn in CG. And warrior was shooted on green screen. So, i have some problem with picture
At first my attempts for camera projection in nuke wasn’t crowned with sucess.
Objects in scene was disappearing when i was adding new objects through merge function. I think May be was too big measures of objects (i used real world scale) or may be too large textures (those ones was about 8000Ð¥4000 in Targa format)
I decide make Camera Projection in 3D Max separate for FG, MG and BG. I saved .tga sequences with Alpha channel. Then i made composition in After Effects and added fog on a water, haze and set up collor correction
At second i added building and it doesn’t fit for picture a bit. May be for this one need to add some objects. May be collor correction doesn’t match. I don’t know.
May be leave picture without buildings. But BG without buildings looks empty…
I don’t know what i’ll do. I need advice from another point of view.
