MS3 presentation 2'5D matte painting

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MS3 presentation2.5D matte painting
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Main goals

• Make a matte painting, improve my paintingskills.
• Take the matte painting in to a 3D world and make
  a short clip when you fly over the landscape.

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Why did I pick this project?

• Inspierd by Mickes project last year.
• I have always liked cool environments and matte
  paintings. So it really felt like the right thing
  to do to make a 2.5D Matte Painting.

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Software

• Photoshop Mattepainting.
• Maya Modeling, add particle effects.
• Fusion Put everything together.
• Adobe Premiere Soundeffects.

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Reference materials

• Mickael Widegrens project that he did last year
• Cgtalk
• Mattepatinting.com
• Conceptart.org
• Internet!

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Refimages

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Refimages
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Sketches
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Sketches
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Pictures that I used







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The final matte painting
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What have changed under the project?

• At the beginning I planned to paint everything by
  hand. But after MS1 I decided to take allready
  existing photograps and paintings and then try to
  fit them together in a nice way.
• At first i decided to make rain-particles in
  fusion, then I changed to snow-particles, and
  then I changed again back to rain, cause I
  couldnt get the snow to look as good as I hoped.
  And I also made the particles in maya instead of
  fusion, cause I thought it looked better.
• And I skipped the fire, cause I couldnt get it to
  look so good that i hoped.

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The old storyboard

• Camera fading in pointing down move forward over
  water.
• Camera tilt up, you can se the waterfall and some
  trees.
• Camera swoshing over the waterfall, and glides
  over the landscape.

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The new storyboard

• Camera fading in going up the stairs.
• Camera tilts up, you can se more of the stairs.
• Camera tilts up till you see the firetower and
  the entrance to the matte painting.
• Camera swoshing by the fire and through the
  stonecircle and the whole landscape will be shown.

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Buildup from the matte painting to 3D
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Modeled in Maya, added a few things
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Textured in Maya
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Animated objects
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Animated cloud planes
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Rain and lightning
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Analys

• Problems?
• Did I reach my goals?
• Show clip