[Kota]

Hi to everybody! This thread is really fascinaiting! Great work everybody. :)
Well, it's my first post here. It took about 1 h 20 min. Hope you'll like it. :)

[wadeammon]

First post, and looking for tips. I'll try hard to follow this thread and keep posting. I am painting scenes to integrate into large/expansive composites, this is my start toward that goal. Thankful for any crit.

[Arenas]

Hi, I'm working in a movie taking place in a jungle, here I post the matte sketch for the opening of the movie. I want to show the dawn on the jungle and, later, for the final matte, I will try to find a way to make it without to many 3D trick for the raising mist and other atmospheric FX. I will try to make the scene working with soft X-dissolves between the differnt panels.
critics are very welcome

[homer]

great job everybody,

Arenas,


It tells the story and it looks beautiful,
In the last painting,
Using some more layers in the left side in front of the big chunk of mist, might help to brick it up so it keeps the effect but not distracting.

you should post this in critic section.

[beothian]

Hi all!!! First post here Hope you like it.

[Arenas]

:wink: I...really love your "touch", look so easy, straight to the point, my dear Beo.
I'm curious to see more of your work :roll: :D

[plaf]

lil 15minute job.

[P.Nagle]

just a quick sketch

[dylan]

This thread could use a kick start. It is a very important topic annd a great way to develop you skills. You will learn a lot more doing 10 decent sketches than you will beating your head against 1 matte painting.
Here is a recent city. Not very realistic, but it was a fun excercise. I did it in a little over 2 hours with no reference.



And here is a shameless plug for my first dvd on landscape matte painting. This is a sketch that is on the dvd done in about 45 or 50 minutes. I had looked at a few photos a couple hours before doing this, but I had nothing in front of me.

[B. Kachel]

Hey Dylan,

Great work as usual. I have always admired your citscape paintings. I noticed that you had said that you didn't use any reference on this particular city painting. I was curious, how do you develop these concepts and what other reference do you use? It is hard for me to develop a concept for this genre of painting, and I was hoping you could shed some light.

Again great work
-Brandon