Gray Scale Sketch; Final

For this assignment I had to make a rough sketch for the final to put my main concept and ideals in the Photoshop document as it is. It was hard getting detail in the fore ground without killing sight of the whole image, but I ended up doing more detail for the back as needed. I used a lot of brushes in order to go over all the necessary things that had to be done with the image (the river, grass and clouds had to be more lifelike and less robotic so I messed around with the scatter and the dynamics of the brush). The overall assignment was mainly a lesson to be learned for future assignment in order to get all of the necessary requirements, and sketching out an idea is one of them.

Epic Vista

For this assignment we were supposed to create a matte painting with the images we were given by our instructor. We were supposed to use a minimal amount of three images, but I ended up using all of them. For this composition, the main fore ground was the hardest to color correct because it either ended up too green or too red when I had come close to the main corrections. I had to make the images aligned in this way so they would sync together much better. The selection process was also kind of long, but ended up being a big key into creating this whole piece. Over all I would have to make the foreground less red, but I believe it is a well made composition.

Experiment Matte Painting

For this assignment I had to use 6 different pictures, and then sketch them out by painting over the main one in order to make outlines for all of them. It was really difficult getting a good feel for all of the pictures in order for them to blend well and in sync. This blending had to be one of the most challenging I had to face, but with my experience it made the background and foreground communicate with each other efficiently. I had a lot of inspiration with scenarios we saw the last class we had in certain matte paintings. It was really fun to apply many of the techniques I learned in school; including the one we learned last class.