Trying out Matte Painting

#1

I’ve been interesting in matte painting for a while now and decided to give it a try. Please give me any crits, comments, suggestions, etc. Anything that will help me improve would be more than appreciated. I’ve been staring at this image so long that the obvious mistakes are starting to become not so obvious. A fresh pair of eyes is greatly needed.

Here is the 3d model of the submarine.

And here is the original Plate image rendered out of XSI.

Thanks! I appreciate it and hope to post some more soon!

#2

hi and welcome to this forums, I think your final image need some touch ups, liek for instance the scale is a bit off, I would add way more detail to the rock cliff and more overall aerial perspective/atmosphere, maybe the composition is not helping either, the main object is almost dead center, and the lighting is kind of boring, almost looks light the key light is just in front like the camera view, I suggest moving the camara to create longer shadows, or try to find some nice highlights in the metal with other only highlights lights , I would move the submarine to the right to help with composition and add more details to the sand dunes, the BG sky also looks lo res, some more interesting clouds could help the image as well
looking forward to see how this ends up

keep it up !

#3

Thanks for the reply! I really appreciate it. Everything you said makes perfect sense, and now it’s all glaringly obvious. I’m going to go back and spend some more time on this. I think I’m going to extend the left side to show some more desert and that will move the composition of the sub more to the right so it’s not so dead center. I think I’m going to try different lighting. An overcast sky or dusk might be fun.

Thanks again! And I’ll post an update as soon as I’ve made some progress.

#4

I went back and made a couple of changes. I still have more to do on this, but I wanted some input to see if I was heading in the right direction. I feel much better about this version. I’d still like to add some more to the left side of the image, without taking away from the focal point. I went back to the original 3d render and added a cube the size of a person as reference for scale. Turns out those plants near the sub in the first image were about 12ft tall. haha, go figure.

Thanks! I appreciate it!

#5

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