Temple Ruins (matte painting)

[Roykorpel]

Hey peeps,

This is my entry for the Gnomon Workshop competition with the theme: Temple ruins. I tried a matte painting for the change and had big fun. I recorded my screen and uploaded it to youtube. check the link under this post. Anyways, the picture is not accepted for the 2d section and feels as a bummer…

I can use some (i hope) positive feedback for the next matte painting!

Timelaps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClvukYZu1TU

Cheers

[Lunatique]

While I understand what you were going for with the silhouette framing the scene, it seems a bit boring visually because the silhouette doesn’t really add anything to the scene, other than take up precious real estate that could have been used to make the scene more compelling. When you use silhouettes, you have to think about why you’re doing it. The addition of the silhouette have to have meaning–a specific purpose that was made more effective/powerful by the silhouette.

Some of the stuff in the far background is a bit too vague. For example, on the right side, those two white vertical streaks–are they supposed to be waterfalls? We can’t tell what they are. You need to make sure everything in your scene reads clearly, even if they are meant to be far away and with atmospheric perspective.

The way you have depicted the forms with highlight and form shadows seems a bit inconsistent too, as if the position of the sun keeps changing in the sky from one column to the next.

The perspective also doesn’t line up. Your waterfalls should follow the same vanishing point as the building.

[Roykorpel]

While I understand what you were going for with the silhouette framing the scene, it seems a bit boring visually because the silhouette doesn’t really add anything to the scene, other than take up precious real estate that could have been used to make the scene more compelling. When you use silhouettes, you have to think about why you’re doing it. The addition of the silhouette have to have meaning–a specific purpose that was made more effective/powerful by the silhouette.

Some of the stuff in the far background is a bit too vague. For example, on the right side, those two white vertical streaks–are they supposed to be waterfalls? We can’t tell what they are. You need to make sure everything in your scene reads clearly, even if they are meant to be far away and with atmospheric perspective.

The way you have depicted the forms with highlight and form shadows seems a bit inconsistent too, as if the position of the sun keeps changing in the sky from one column to the next.

The perspective also doesn’t line up. Your waterfalls should follow the same vanishing point as the building.

Thanks for your quality feedback!

The vertical streaks are supposed to be waterfalls yes. I tried to make a foggy admospere. But i think i killed the background to much by playing with textures over and over. Did u watch the youtube video i made? U can see me fighting through the drawing… making choices en change them on the fly.

about the silhouettes, i started with the idea to make something alien… on a other planet. So those 3 figures started as astronauts… and had the function to make the temple look big. I got your point. They just standing there doing nothing in special that helps the drawing. Maybe it gives the drawing a bit more contrast… hmm…

I have a new matte painting in my mind and want to make a better drawing than this one. So your advise will be in my pocket on that one!

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