Collision: Matte painting Earth

            Now that I have gone through this assignment, I know that you can accomplish into doing almost anything in Photoshop. Not only that, but you can also accomplish those goals in numerous numbers of ways. In this assignment I had to make the moon crash into the planet. The first thing I had to go through was the background for the moon and the foreground colors. I used black/white, purple, and red to make the fore ground for the moon. The background consisted of yellow and white, where I had to smudge and blend with overlays with the foreground. Then I had to add three different types of lightings and glows in order to get motions in the picture.

            The hardest part of this process was adding texture to the actual collision without making it seem like it’s painted on there. I had to add noise and a blur filter. The lighting all consisted of a radial blur and certain brush strokes. I had to add a lot of color for the collision in order to blend the moon and the earth together.  

Matte Planet

            I had to make a lot of color blending layers and filter layers in order to come up with the color of this picture/painting. There are a lot of things that I had trouble in for this assignment, but I figured out more than half of what I didn’t know to begin with. The radial filter blur was one of the most troublesome parts to this assignment. The planet would get mixed up with the radial blur at first, but I ended up keeping it since it added a lot of motion to the earth.

            The cloud rendering filter was really useful to get both color and random clouds to fill in the space. There is still much more to improve to this picture, but I’m going to have to look up more tools to make it a better composition. I certainly loved the little touches like the glows and burning to the picture. It makes the picture stand out more as a whole.



Matte Painting: Day to Night

              I was lead to believe this assignment was an easy one. For the most part my class mates were right, but they didn’t really pay attention to the composition of the picture and the process of making it into night scenery. Since the picture already has shadows, it was hard to think of a light source other than a moon. I had to add color correction to both the sky and the actual foreground, but I separated the both of them into different layers since they had no common color correction.

            This assignment was hard but all you had to have was the required skills and a little imagination. I didn’t really add a light source into the picture, but it makes you assume that there is a big one to the right since there are no stars or moon (light pollution). I also erased part of the foreground color correction to make it look like a shadow made from that light source.

Matte Painting; Meteor

            In this assignment learned one of many uses in which we can use the clone stamp tool in order to do effects in a picture. It is a very interesting tool to use, and I have to say it is very fun to use as well. The pictures consisted of many different elements, such as the debris, the shattered buildings, the cloned background/cut-out, cut out fill in, and smoke. I started with the clone cut outs in orders to get the basic of the whole scene. I also had to go over the space they left out with some fill in color in order to have depth, and I added fire/smoke to the hole from the blue building.

            Since I couldn’t add new pictures to this assignment I had to make my own fire and flames from scratch. I did however used the eye-dropper tool in order to get the same color scheme fire had (just like the color blending assignment) in order to make it in a separate layer. It was a difficult task but in the end I just went over it with the blur tool in order to give it movement and make it a little bit more realistic.

Matte Painting, Wave

    This assignment was a challenge for my patience. It was difficult to mix the wave and the bridge since the background of the bridge has a halo because of its previous background sky. There was too much detail I left behind, but I managed to cut out most of it to be able to be believable. I had to cut off the village in the side since the wave just looked funky behind it or on it.

            I defiantly should have chosen a different color scheme for this painting. What I was thinking for this assignment was the different things I can do using the blurring technique or opacity/flow decrease with an eraser.

Matte Painting

  

     

Color Blending

           

Brush Pre-Sets

            Knowing I have the power to manipulate pictures is really the whole purpose of Photoshop. The lecture we had on Wednesday just blew my mind away when I learned we can create our own texture in an image. I had to set my mind to do something interesting and detailed. That being said, I selected a number of pictures that had a lot of detail and resolution. The reason I saved those selections is because I wanted them to have a good aspect of both positive and negative space. If they have too much negative or positive, the design would look really lame and boring. They would also look a little retarded because it would be too simple to look at. The head/face hair was an exception because it was very difficult to get a good selection using Notan.