some paintings

#1

Hi there,
Im new to this forum, although I watch your works for quite a long time, but never hat the time to post some of my own stuff. My name is Sepp Sonntag. Im a mattepainter, modeler and texture-artist from Germany. Recently I also released my website, so please have a look.

modeling and sky/ sea mattepainting:

Sepp

www.black-crow.com

#2

hi, and welcome to this forum ! I could see you have some great things on you site, I hope you can share some techniques with the community and some before/after matte painting work, looking forward to see more !

#3

Hi Jaime. Thank you :slight_smile: I`m glad you like my work. Of course I want to share some of my techniques with you.

The Island was a personal painting. I found this nice picture somewhere around on the internet. I liked the mood and especially the waves in front of the coast. 

[img]http://www.black-crow.com/portfolio/other/coast_v01.jpg[/img]


Recently before I started this painting I saw King Kong. So I wanted to do my own little version of skull island. Just as an inspiration. I only used one picture for the sky, the rest is handpainted. Sadly it`s not finished yet. I hope I find some time to make it final.

[img]http://www.black-crow.com/portfolio/personal/island_big.jpg[/img]
#4

There is another painting I want to show you. It`s how I love to work the most, the combination of 2D and 3D. I have to say, this matte was made somewhere around in august 2008 and only for television.

  This was the original plate. It should be on the roof of a hospital. 
  
  [img]http://www.black-crow.com/portfolio/other/hospital_plate.jpg[/img]
  
  
  Because the helicopter should fly away and be replaced with a digital double I had to make a cleanplate:
  
  [img]http://www.black-crow.com/portfolio/other/hospital_cleanplate.jpg[/img]
  
  I modeled the environment with maya. I love this tool, especially for modeling.
  
  [img]http://www.black-crow.com/portfolio/other/hospital_mod.jpg[/img]
  
  I always try to match the 3D as close to my painting as possible. So I do all the lighting, rendering and texturing in 3D. 
  Then I go to photoshop and make the final integration and get rid of the CG-look, to make it more natural. I think this is not the final image, but I don`t find it right now :-(
  
  [img]http://www.black-crow.com/portfolio/other/hospital_mp.jpg[/img]
  
   This is the final shot with the cg helicopter and snow after the compositing.
  
  [img]http://www.black-crow.com/portfolio/lawine/lawine_hospital_big.jpg[/img]
  
  I also did the modeling of the helicopter. This was really a fun job. 
  
  [img]http://www.black-crow.com/portfolio/lawine/modeling/lawine_wire_01_big.jpg[/img]
  
 
  I hope you like it. 
  Best regards,

Sepp

#5

Excellent work! Thanks for sharing images of the process. :thumbsup:

#6

Thanks for sharing both your works and the process you did! Its amazing!

#7

Thank you very much :slight_smile: I hope I can show some more stuff soon.

#8

great work Sepp.

Nice combination of 3D and 2D

steve

#9

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