Digital Matte Painting - Fundamentals
Jennifer Huang / 0352990
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Entertainment Design - Sem 4
Digital Matte Painting - Exercises
Assignment Brief
During Digital Matte Painting, we will undergo a series of exercises that will enhance our understanding of matte as listed below:
1. Perspective Studies (Landscapes and Interiors)
WEEK 2
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Entertainment Design - Sem 4
Digital Matte Painting - Exercises
Module Information Booklet
Assignment Brief
During Digital Matte Painting, we will undergo a series of exercises that will enhance our understanding of matte as listed below:
1. Perspective Studies (Landscapes and Interiors)
2. Compositions
3. Value Studies
4. Sky replacements
5. Virtual Plain Air
6. 2.5D mattes
7. Invisible Set Extensions.
3. Value Studies
4. Sky replacements
5. Virtual Plain Air
6. 2.5D mattes
7. Invisible Set Extensions.
EXERCISES
WEEK 2
On the first week of class, mr kannan lectures us about the basic
understanding of digital matte painting and what we're doing for this
module. He mentioned that perspective is crucial for this, and he also
guided us to practice our perspective points as well as values.
Fig. 1 three point perspective (in class)
Fig. 2 One point perspective exercise (in class)
WEEK 3
Fig. 3 Photo bashing tryout
Fig. 4 Paint over and ambience tryout
So here's what i came up with the first attempt of matte painting mainly because i just wanted to prevent doing it in the last last minute, so i figure maybe i could watch the demonstration and follow up step by step (with my own stock image).
After having this, I showed to mr kannan during class, and he says this could be used as the 'base'. But anyways here's his feedback :
1. Train rail doesn't make sense at all, perspective wise.
2. Dinosaur skull is too hideous considering from this pov (imagine if its that big from this pov, how enormous would it be if we were in front of it) :")
3. The paint over for the green hill then suddenly a cliff nearby the train rail doesnt make sense..
Fig. 5 Photo bashing tryout
Fig. 7 S composition.
Fig. 8 Diagonal Composition
Fig. 9 Cave composition.
Fig. 10 Composition compilation
Fig. 11 Night sky replacement
Fig. 12 Afternoon sky replacement.
Fig. 1 three point perspective (in class)
Fig. 2 One point perspective exercise (in class)
WEEK 3
After week 2's class, I did a little research on my own on youtube about
digital matte painting. I watched the demonstration of how they do digital
matte painting starting from photo bashing, then setting lighting to
painting over and setting the ambience into a one whole cinematic
picture.
YouTube channels that i watched include :
1. Yoyok Ferdianto
2. 7studio777
3. ArtStation
4. Photo Manipulation
1. Yoyok Ferdianto
2. 7studio777
3. ArtStation
4. Photo Manipulation
And other more..
After watching them, i tried it on my own. First i picked out the movie theme that i wanted, so then i picked out Jurassic world.
After watching them, i tried it on my own. First i picked out the movie theme that i wanted, so then i picked out Jurassic world.
Fig. 3 Photo bashing tryout
Fig. 4 Paint over and ambience tryout
So here's what i came up with the first attempt of matte painting mainly because i just wanted to prevent doing it in the last last minute, so i figure maybe i could watch the demonstration and follow up step by step (with my own stock image).
After having this, I showed to mr kannan during class, and he says this could be used as the 'base'. But anyways here's his feedback :
1. Train rail doesn't make sense at all, perspective wise.
2. Dinosaur skull is too hideous considering from this pov (imagine if its that big from this pov, how enormous would it be if we were in front of it) :")
3. The paint over for the green hill then suddenly a cliff nearby the train rail doesnt make sense..
WEEK 4
On this week, I tried another version of photo bashing and also doing
the composition exercises.
Fig. 5 Photo bashing tryout
Fig. 6 Paint over and ambience tryout
Again I showed this to mr kannan and here's his feedback :
1. The way the cliff and grass is just not making sense..
2. Composition wise, doesnt make sense if the dinosaur in the tree trunk is that big considering from this pov.
3. Also, why is there a tree thats supposedly be like a 'bridge' connecting from left cliff to the right cliff? what is it supposed to be? ans: idk too honestly now that i think of it
4. He also mentioned (i think) its fine for the base, but maybe fix the wrongs first then later we can see what else we can improve.
1. The way the cliff and grass is just not making sense..
2. Composition wise, doesnt make sense if the dinosaur in the tree trunk is that big considering from this pov.
3. Also, why is there a tree thats supposedly be like a 'bridge' connecting from left cliff to the right cliff? what is it supposed to be? ans: idk too honestly now that i think of it
4. He also mentioned (i think) its fine for the base, but maybe fix the wrongs first then later we can see what else we can improve.
On this week, we also did composition exercise, the one i did was S
composition, Cave composition and diagonal composition. This composition
is to help us understand more when drawing environment later
on.
Fig. 7 S composition.
Fig. 9 Cave composition.
Fig. 10 Composition compilation
WEEK 5
Today's lecture was about sky replacement. we also did our exercises.
Basically the sky replacement is photo bashing but also we need to
adjust the ambience so that it makes sense with the surrounding
environment to match the sky.
Fig. 11 Night sky replacement
Fig. 12 Afternoon sky replacement.
WEEK 6
This week i tried doing ambience exercise for the composition that i
did 2 weeks ago.
Fig. 13 Red ambience tryout
Fig. 14 Purple ambience tryout
Fig. 13 Red ambience tryout
Fig. 14 Purple ambience tryout
WEEK 7
Virtual plan air is covered in this weeks lecture. I was legit thrilled when i found out what virtual plan air/plan eir however u spell it idk was about. Because i started doing art by painting manually in canvas, this made me so happy cuz i just love painting based on a reference. So anyways i did try my best in this span of time and i realize how different it is doing it digitally and manually.. but overall i did enjoy this process.
REFLECTION
By doing these exercise, and knowing the basics of digital matte painting, it was quite okay and i enjoyed most part of it. I also learnt a lot from mr.kannan's feedback regarding perspective, values, composition, photo bashing and more. I remember that before moving on to project one, i suddenly had a major confusion... which mainly because i watched to many tutorials in youtube and judging by how everyone's process is different and they have different techniques it made me confused. But then after consulting in class, i finally get it all clear and can move on to project 1 which is Invisible set extension or like our base plate for later on matte painting.
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