Matte Paintings

These three MattePaintings I made for school. I shot all the original plates myself, and edited them with the help of After Effects, Combustion and Photoshop.
2008 © Wim Somers

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Animation
• Compositing
• Matte
• Painting
• 2D
• Visual
• Film
• Effect

[hempo22]

very nice! the smoke in the first one wasn't too convincing, try some other blending modes and I'll think you're done. same thing for the snow on the bushes and leaves. and maybe som light snowfall would help sell the effect. day4night is the best. only thing i'd suggest there is to study real night footage and look att the contrast and noise in the dark areas. otherwise, well done mate!

[rubylight]

@hempo22 Thanks Hampus! Other ppl spot it too: the smoke in nr1 was indeed a bit of a troublemaker. When i beefed up the opacity to 100% (in any blending mode) the edges looked to sharp, so i tuned it down - not noticing it became see-through.

A comment my teacher gave me was that the white snow was actually whiter than anything else in the shot; it was too white :p.

[hfdgdfigdfgdf]

awesome...is there any tutorial how to do that?....thanks

[rubylight]

Thanks for your comment. And well, the pass-by-pass build-up makes them quite self-explanatory, don't they?

Basically you cut out the buildings from the background - either by keying the sky, or manually drawing masks - and then adding still or movie-elements - which will also require to be masked out.

Basically you're shuffeling layers of images on top of each other: like in photoshop, except now it's moving images...

[lorenwhite]

great work.. how did you get the snow? compd in from a still photo?

[rubylight]

Thanks for your reply, Loren!

The snow is actually handpainted in Photoshop:

I used a small brush and drew in small circles, to get that blobby-texture real snow usually makes.

For the snow on the bushes and trees I switched my brush to a more specled one, to give the impression some leaves cast a shadow on those under them.

Finally I added a blue-ish shadow on the lower ends to all the bits of snow.

[Remzi96]

@Piano316James if it shot on tripod. just masking the sky. :)

[Piano316James]

does this work with sony vegas ?

[redfoxbennaton]

Is this why they have layered paintings in cartoons?

[Raghavan88]

Awesome!

[Mrcoolagainbuzy]

the effect at 1:16 is awesome

[challagundla4]

Wow awesome!

[hfdgdfigdfgdf]

ok, thanks ....