My First Matte

Though not my first time to use Photoshop but this is my first time to do a matte painting. Comments and critiques are all welcome for improvements, I'm still on the process of learning it. Thank you po.

pure painting ba 'to sir?

ok 'yung incorporation ng ibang elements sir...ganito pala ang matte painting...

lobsang rampa wrote:pure painting ba 'to sir?

nope sir. actually matatawag nga syang photomanipulation.LOL i painted some of them especially sa sky part. still on my learning curve on matte painting. natuwa lang po ako sa paggawa.

lobsang rampa wrote:ok 'yung incorporation ng ibang elements sir...ganito pala ang matte painting...

thanks sir. bale i'm still on my learning curve.

I remember commenting on this yesterday and it's gone again. Somebody made magic again?

v_wrangler wrote:I remember commenting on this yesterday and it's gone again. Somebody made magic again?

Must be a magician's group around here... Wanna flush em out?

v_wrangler wrote:I remember commenting on this yesterday and it's gone again. Somebody made magic again?

What do you mean sir Roy?May nag delete ng reply mo??

di ko alam eh. What a glitch. All I know is - nagcomment ako kahapon but when I checked this morning wala na sya. Anyways, I'll just repost from memory:

"If the second image is the original reference and the first one is the PS manipulated version, the reflections of elements were either off or missing.

The structure on the left and the background waterfalls should at least show up on the water reflections. The color of the water comes from the particles underneath and its environment, so that means if you have a bright background, that would have an effect on the water either as a color or as a reflection - which is missing from the first image."

Do not forget to emphasize distance either by way of adding subtle fog or depth of field

hmmm.Baka site error lang sir. Not sure as well. Inform nyo na lng kami if ever na maulit ulit and we will check for it.Thanks..

By the way sorry Yhmon for ot replies here sa thread mo. As much as i want to comment sa work mo i dont have technical knowledge sa matt. Looking at your work,its really good for me. If this is done in 3d it is really a very good one.Keep it up.

v_wrangler wrote:di ko alam eh. What a glitch. All I know is - nagcomment ako kahapon but when I checked this morning wala na sya. Anyways, I'll just repost from memory:

"If the second image is the original reference and the first one is the PS manipulated version, the reflections of elements were either off or missing.

The structure on the left and the background waterfalls should at least show up on the water reflections. The color of the water comes from the particles underneath and its environment, so that means if you have a bright background, that would have an effect on the water either as a color or as a reflection - which is missing from the first image."

Do not forget to emphasize distance either by way of adding subtle fog or depth of field

Thank you sir for the comment. This will be helpful. I'll take note of them. About the post you've made recently, baka po site error lang po. Thanks again Sir.

ARCHITHEKTHURA wrote:hmmm.Baka site error lang sir. Not sure as well. Inform nyo na lng kami if ever na maulit ulit and we will check for it.Thanks..

By the way sorry Yhmon for ot replies here sa thread mo. As much as i want to comment sa work mo i dont have technical knowledge sa matt. Looking at your work,its really good for me. If this is done in 3d it is really a very good one.Keep it up.

It's okay. Thank you for dropping by on my post.

Good one YHMOM, this work might be a bit more stylized than the style I am used too. I guess sir vertex already said all the stuff that I need to comment.

But with regards sa sinabi ni sir vertex, I think tehe problem here with reflection and light comes from the reference image itself. Kasi yung image na ginamit mu is an HDR image, kayat medyo bright and balanced lahat. I would not say this is wrong but it would be a bit off kasi HDR images in itself is art, and its not "photo" real, and we usually are used to photo real images.

I think you have colour corrected the image all at once here, bro, after making all those changes. check your blacks in your foreground and midground, halos pantay na. The image turned out flat parang isang dead-end place na, unlike the previous one na may lalim.

the original image is lit GI like, the way the final mattepainting ended up, medyo labo labo na light source. even the way your structure was strongly lit, sa left side eh lakas pa rin ng light source nya sa front.

I noticed that 45 degree plane, medyo naging mali the way you created the new lighting for it. You used the dodge tool right? nabigyan kasi sya ng extreme highlights and a shape that deviates it from the original flat looking side. one tip to do so is to copy it, put curves adjustment layer with a clipping mask, crank up the curves and put gradient masking and lower down your layer opacity. this will preserve the shape.

eyecon01 wrote:Good one YHMOM, this work might be a bit more stylized than the style I am used too. I guess sir vertex already said all the stuff that I need to comment.

But with regards sa sinabi ni sir vertex, I think tehe problem here with reflection and light comes from the reference image itself. Kasi yung image na ginamit mu is an HDR image, kayat medyo bright and balanced lahat. I would not say this is wrong but it would be a bit off kasi HDR images in itself is art, and its not "photo" real, and we usually are used to photo real images.

Salamat po ng marami for the tips. I'll take note po yan master erik. maraming salamat po...

Jeff MD wrote:I think you have colour corrected the image all at once here, bro, after making all those changes. check your blacks in your foreground and midground, halos pantay na. The image turned out flat parang isang dead-end place na, unlike the previous one na may lalim.

the original image is lit GI like, the way the final mattepainting ended up, medyo labo labo na light source. even the way your structure was strongly lit, sa left side eh lakas pa rin ng light source nya sa front.

I noticed that 45 degree plane, medyo naging mali the way you created the new lighting for it. You used the dodge tool right? nabigyan kasi sya ng extreme highlights and a shape that deviates it from the original flat looking side. one tip to do so is to copy it, put curves adjustment layer with a clipping mask, crank up the curves and put gradient masking and lower down your layer opacity. this will preserve the shape.

oooooo dami ko pa talagang kakaining bigas. thank you po for the time helping out. i really appreciate it. ill take note of that po. thanks again...

reflection lang sa water cguro ang nakikita kung wala dito,anyway galing pa rin!

bro, nakita ko yong second matte mo first, and i can say this was also great as a first attempt:D medyo naeenganyo tuloy ako sumubok ng matte painting, congratulations kapatid, more power!