Ireland Matte

#1

Hey guys,

I just finished up some freelance and wanted to take a break from my cgtalk challenge painting so I decided to start this matte. I still have a lot of work to do so any crits would be great!

The bottom image is the plate photo.

Thanks!

#2

great work, man!

#3

great work indeed, no critics for me, I would make the castle a little bit more impressive,bigger, I think it is too small and simple now

great colors and mood

#4

Hey thanks for the comments guys!

I am glad you both like it. I am going to do a little planning for the structure up on that cliff and hopefully I will be able to come up with something interesting. Also I hope to get some more interesting things going on in the water with the boats. One thing thats also on my mind is the foreground. I may add something to it, maybe a building close to the camera but I am still not very sure.

Thanks guys!

#5

Lovely,
Although, the cloud cover might be conflicting with the sunlit portion of the ground a little bit. Its hard to say. Otherwise very nice work

#6

Great work!

#7

Thanks for the comments guys!

jaredr: Hey man , thanks for the crit but I am not exactly sure what you mean. I know when I adding the god rays coming from the left it wasnt just to help sell the light direction but to break up that section of cloud a bit so it wouldnt turn that ground into something that would compete with the main focal point which is the cliff and castle.

I did some more work this morning so I thought I would post it. I also added a couple close ups at full res so you can see what was painted and so on.

Thanks!

#8

ahh the green hills me of home.
:applause:

#9

Nice reminds me off whitby,

Rich

#10

Thanks for the comments :slight_smile:

I decided to redo the structure at the top of that cliff, I wasnt feeling good about the other version.

Also I started working on a camera projection to the matte aswell , the link is HERE

Thanks guys!

#11

I didn’t think it was possible for this country of mine to get any cloudier,but it just did. Nice work. I particularly like the way the sky contrast draws you immediately to the clifftop fortress.

#12

Thanks for the comment Danny! Sorry for making Ireland so cloudly , but its a beautiful place no matter the weather haha

#13

Thanks for that Matt. We get so much cloud and rain here that it’s wetter than Atlantis :scream:

#14

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