2009 Matte Painting Demoreel

#1

Hi all

I posted this up in the Finished Animation thread, but thought id post it in here too in case you miss it in there. Always keen to get your valuable opinions. This reel is doing the rounds at the UK vfx houses at the moment.

Look forward to your comments. Cheers guys!

DEMOREEL LINK (YOUTUBE) (Use HD)

DEMOREEL LINK (VIMEO)


I rencently finished some work on The Hunt For Gollum, and may update the reel with that work soon, which hopefully will add a bit more variety, but in the meantime, this is open to your comments and suggestions.

Still Frames:

#2

I’m not an expert but I like it, impressive works you got there :wink:

Keep up

#3

Awesome work Nick… i will say that you may want to use a little more geometry on that foreground mountain in the first shot. Its got a little bit of stretching in some spots

#4

Hi Nick, :slight_smile:

Excellent digital matte-painting demo-reel! I like it very much! As always, your works ROCK & inspires me alot! :bowdown:

#5

yeah nice one Nick. We were talking bout it on msn already.
I’m quite curious to check out your hunt for gollum stuff!

#6

Thanks for the comments guys!

Cliff - You are right about the poly count, i think for my next projection i will try and model in a little more detail. Im not the best modeller, it takes me a while, especially modelling from the cameras point of view, but i probably could have spent more time on the model there.

Chris - Thanks man, yea you gave me some great tips already :slight_smile: The Hunt For Gollum is being released next week, and ill show the work from that one here as soon as i can. Just need to get some time to upload it.

Cheers!

Nick

#7

This looks great man :slight_smile: Ive followed your process for about a year now and you are improving quickly! I love that mountain piece you have first on your reel… very very natural looking piece :slight_smile:

I guess we’ll see your name on some big movie credit really soon :slight_smile:

#8

Nice! You are on the next level. I saw some mattes from The Hunt For Gollum and i need to say It looks very professional.

#9

Thanks!

Akajork - Thanks mate, i hope you are right!

kbarts - Hey man, thanks for the comments! Yea The Hunt For Gollum was a great project. I only joined the team very late to help pick up one last ambitious shot as i have been busy on other work (most of which can be seen in this reel). THere was a huge matte dept on that project tho, lots of talent! Hopefully all the artists will be rewarded by the film being a hit. Ill post my work from that soon.

Nick

#10

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