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[lvl3bomb]

Hey everyone...


This is my VERY first matte painting (.... if you can call this matte painting...)....

This was done shortly after recieving Dylon Cole's DVD with the beach and buildings.... unreal stuff.

Now. First let me mention that I dont know how to draw. Most of the image is a source image. I got all the equiptment... but it kinda ends there.

I created a rollover image at this address:

http://www.geocities.com/lvl3bomb/matte1.html

let it load so you get both pics.

Please ignore the car. :P

This is a test to see where I stand now in this area.

I also got a few questions for the experts:

1)Any tips/ideas on how to blend this car better? The shadows here.... they dont look right...
2)From the elements which I added, what was done poorly?
3)Any lighting corrections/tips/techniques to use here ARE MOST HIGHLY APPRECIATED...! (very importnant)


Thank you all in advance!

Glad to be able to produce anything.


Any critique apprecitated...


Alon.

[Panze]

Biggest problems you have are with perspective. The car and the beach on the left look wierd cause of that.

In the car you got too much strong highlights compared to the landscape arround. The original lightning in the picture is pretty much ambient because of the cloud cover. And as far as I can tell the main light is coming outside the picture from left, but it's really weak and barely makes any higlights.

Car's shadow has to be pretty subtle to blend with the rest of the picture.

Pretty good start though, the distant island is sitting pretty well except for the border it has with the water on the far left.