Matte Painting for Planetfall

[B. Kachel]

http://stu.aii.edu/~bjk361/snooze_bar_layout.jpg
Feedback welcome.

[AliK]

This is a very practical matte painting.
Good composition and setup.
It looks like the trees are loosing focus in the original plate. Which should be the same for the background too. (Adding a little camera blur to background might help)
And adding some more atmospheres to the 3d part might help to blend everything more closely.

[B. Kachel]

Thank you for the feed back Alik. In my composite I did add some blur to the backgroud just not the photoshop doc.

[Ross Forster]

Thats a nice final composite you have there, what was the film about?


Later.

[B. Kachel]

Thnak you. It's a sci-fi spaghetti western movie. I am not fully sure what it is about.

[Boof]

I agree very practical use of matte ptg...your extension off the building is very natural. Like the breakdown of what you did....plate, cg, final, detail.

[Tchook]

ouhh nice one..........

But the light direction of the buildings on far right of the image is wrong
(the light is coming from the left)
Hey you ve used the same sample lillpeter use... :wink:
Good one though
:D

[B. Kachel]

Thanks for the feed back. Found image of buildings on the right on a search engine a while back. Finaly came to some use for me.

[rrische]

This is really nice! I agree with the lighting direction comment
on the buildings off to the right. The highlight parts also feel a
little warm, like late afternoon sun.

I have one little nitpicky comment about the little wall at the edge
of the parking lot on the right....see if you can't break up the line
of this wall somehow. A straight line running through a shot like
this screams MATTE LINE! You always want to get rid of things like
that in a shot.

[rrische]

I was looking at your image some more.
I imagine it's hard when you post some work,
and the comments you get pertain to things
that you could've done better. It's actually
JUST LIKE BEING AT WORK! :wink:

But actually, the list of things you're doing RIGHT
here is really long! You've matched the quality of
the light and atmosphere in the plate really well.
Your additions add a lot of production value, but
blend in really unobtrusively. I really like that "alamo"
style building just behind the bar. It's really seamless.
Everything you've added sits correctly in space. This
is harder to do than it looks.

[halcyonseven]

Very nice Brandon. I know I have already told you my replies in class but this looks great. The 3-D is what really impresses me on this, you have melded the cg with the plates very nicely, matched your blacks it looks like as well. Good for you. You deserve a Rat.

[B. Kachel]

I would like to thank all of you for the feed back. Thak you.

[Luxo_Jr]

WOW! Bloody fantastic! This is certainly something I aspire to! 8) Brilliant! Upon closer inspection, that matte line is a bit obvious though. Other than that...awesome.

[tide78]

lookin good. I saw the original one before you started. pretty kickass.

[stormeffex]

This is nice. i didn't know the FX program is this good, your work makes me want to switch over to VFX from animation. keep up the good work.