lightwell
04-25-2006, 02:49 AM
More a background scenic than a matte painting but I thought it would be good to share this one with you before it comes to the end of its run:
http://www.lightwell.co.uk/stuff/bbcnews01x1280.jpg
Those in the UK might recognise it as the office and atrium space behind the newsreaders on the BBC One national news bulletins. I put this together following designs by Simon Jago with a brief to make it architectural and to give it depth. The image is split across three animation loops that are back-projected onto three screens at the back of the studio. I built the image using three zones using Max and rendeing in Brazil before adding details, refinements and colour tweaks in Photoshop. The animated monitors and people were added in Combustion. To get the right look we had to apply a ton of DOF blur overdo all the colours and to get white, I had to use pink, hence the candy shop colour scheme.
Getting the image to work in perspective was tricky as we had to combine the desire for depth with making sure that the perspective still worked.
When running it looks like this:
http://www.lightwell.co.uk/stuff/bbcnews02.jpg
and this:
http://www.lightwell.co.uk/stuff/bbcnews03.jpg
The screen grabs are a little flakey, but you get the idea.
Jim
http://www.lightwell.co.uk/stuff/bbcnews01x1280.jpg
Those in the UK might recognise it as the office and atrium space behind the newsreaders on the BBC One national news bulletins. I put this together following designs by Simon Jago with a brief to make it architectural and to give it depth. The image is split across three animation loops that are back-projected onto three screens at the back of the studio. I built the image using three zones using Max and rendeing in Brazil before adding details, refinements and colour tweaks in Photoshop. The animated monitors and people were added in Combustion. To get the right look we had to apply a ton of DOF blur overdo all the colours and to get white, I had to use pink, hence the candy shop colour scheme.
Getting the image to work in perspective was tricky as we had to combine the desire for depth with making sure that the perspective still worked.
When running it looks like this:
http://www.lightwell.co.uk/stuff/bbcnews02.jpg
and this:
http://www.lightwell.co.uk/stuff/bbcnews03.jpg
The screen grabs are a little flakey, but you get the idea.
Jim