[jfrancis]

This is more of a (Maya) 3D texture tip than a Matte Painting tip, but with a little imagination one can see how it could be adaptable to matte painting applications.

A limited set of texture tiles randomly shuffled can create the illusion of variety at small rendering cost.





Here's a tutorial I put together on how to get Maya to shuffle those textures:

http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/ ... huffl.html

[jfrancis]

http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/ ... tiles.html

Useful for breaking up that "repeating grid" look.

[homer]

That's great