Digital Matte Painting: Exercise & Project 1

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 DIGITAL MATTE PAINTING


Environmental Design
Maisarah bt Muhd Zamri (0335576)
Exercise & Project 1

Exercise
To start off this matte painting journey, we were told to find landscape images and do a blockout of them to understand and study the perspective and positionings of elements in the image. Basically dissect the image and identify the foreground, middleground, and backrgound.


Fig 1.1 - Landscapes


Fig 1.2 - Blockout exercise

Did a simple greyscale of differentiating the foreground (dark), middleground (medium), and background (light), +lil details.

Project 1


Fig 2.1 - Landscapes

The task is to matte paint three different landscape, and I've decided to do desert, grassy hill, and rocky valley. I looked up 9 different landscapes for each locations, and from those 9 choices, picked one (1) to  paint. 


Desert

Desert - Final

I say 'Final', but you can see that it's not properly finalised. Texture, especially, is missing. All the surface looks smooth and while the colours are what I'm most happy with, even that isn't very accurate compared to the reference image. 

Just a heads up. this final desert is the most finalised work you'll see amongst the three landscapes. 


Grassy Hill


Hills - Unfinished

Y'aaaaaaall the way I abandoned this particular landscapeeeeee ;;;;;;;;;; I can fckn nOT.
It's not even about this specific landscape; it's the whole hills location. The grass, bros. That got to me. I should've done something with less fine texture. 
((My lecturer did warn me that this one is going to drive me insane, and I never doubted him-- which is why I think he forgave me for giving up on this one)).


Rocky Valley

Valley - Final

Again, I use the term "Final" very loosely --- it means I'm finished with it. 
It looks like someone sanded and polished the rocks and then slabbed lotion onto its surface. It's like someone slapped on a beauty filter on the reference image and called it a day. This is the most unfinished finished product. The background isn't even finished. 
I feel like this has the potential to be what it should be, but this is the extent of my skills. 


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