My first matte

[Delirium Fx]

Hi all,
this is my first matte paint

http://www.avalonpictures.supereva.it/matte/winter/finale.jpg

http://www.avalonpictures.supereva.it/matte/winter/originale.jpg

Yes, it is simple but it is my first work.
Advice and critics are welcome. 8)
Sorry for my bad English :roll:

Thanks to all

[Fredric]

Sorry for my bad English

Hello
not necessary to say it...
Chut...

[Milos Fehir]

Ok, now I ain't no expert, far from it, not even novice. but I hope I cand still make some sense.

The tower for examle. You need to make it blend in more with the enviroment. The top of it seems to be working just fine, but teh bottom connection to the ground stands out as somewhat strange. I can't put my finger on what it its..but it's something.

The Overall enviroment is too harsh. The edge crossovers between teh rocks, snow and grass are too hard. Also the snow feels too white. Almost like its unonimous in color. Craate variations of very light grayish instead. Look at similar photos and you'll see subtle variations in colors and shadows. You have those variations in some plcaes, but I feel the whines is a bit overpowering. Also the bottom of the image looks calm while it snows up top. Try to balance that out more or just let it snow more :).

It's good for a first try tho. I got the feeling of a snowy, desolate landscape right away. Jou just need to fix teh technical issues.

[Delirium Fx]

Hi Milos Fehir,
thanks for the comment.
It hope to succeed to make myself understand. :oops:
My intention was to recreate a made photograph with a photographic film of low quality and with exhibition overexposed.
What you believed to be a snowfall, in the high part of the image, is in reality the grain of the film: more visible in the parts darken, except for in those clear. The snow is white because is that the color that it is obtained overexposing the snow. :wink:
The edges of the grass, of the snow and of the rocks are hard because so when are printed on photographic card to high contrast.
The connection of the tower with the earthly one does not satisfy not even me... I will see how to improve it.
It picked in full the feeling that I wanted to transmit. :shock:

Bye, Delirium Fx

I used www.freetranslation.com (http://www.freetranslation.com) to translate the Italian in English. :oops:

[kheemo]

HI!
the first thing I see when I look at this pics is the black outline where are the holes in the snow to see the ground..
especially arround the area where you wrote: 2004 .

and yes the snow is a bit too white ..

cheers!!

[goblinfx]

:shock:
Il mondo è proprio piccolo !!!
Sono David, mi aiutasti anni fa per dei problemi di compositing... Ti sono sempre debitore !!
Mi fa piacere vederti tra i grandi del mattepainting !!!!
Ho visto il tuo lavoro... niente male.
Aggiungerei forse una leggera foschia sul filo dell'acqua (specialmente in fondo per unire di piu lo scuro dell'acqua e il bianco della neve. Cè forse un bordo troppo netto :wink:

[Luxo_Jr]

You might want to add a slight gaussian blur to the snow so those edges where the rocks\grass poke through isn't too harsh.
Also from an artistic standpoint, you may want to have some kind of focus on your tower seen it's your main object so perhaps have that more in focus because it appears as an important piece. What also looks odd is the fact half your tower appears blurred as a result of depth of focus which is good but the door appears too sharpened.

Just my 2c