Iloura

I have started full time work as Digital Matte Painter in Iloura in Melbourne. It's a studio of around 50 based in South Melbourne with great atmosphere and some very interesting projects. I'm currently working on Great Gatsby and After Earth.

Here is the link to the company site: http://www.iloura.com.au/

Paintings will appear less frequent for the next weeks as we are busy but I will try to post something now and then.

Merry Christmas!

In The Dead of Winter

Aurora just started its beautiful display on the December sky but Sir Galahad did not have time to cast his eyes on it, he had to be focused...movement in his armor was very difficult that freezing, whisper quiet night.
The dead was awaiting his victim and there was nothing anyone could do to prevent it. Soon the silence will be broken...

Sketch produced without use of any 3d, 2.5 h Photoshop

Train Station 2036 Concept Design

Train Station, Unknown City, Year 2036. Still traveling on the ground using gravity on magnetic field cushion with speeds reaching 500 km/h 
I started with massing model in 3d Max, added details and textures in PS and painted over. I used some photography for parts of the image to speed things up a little, always a good exercise to be able to produce your concepts fast. Image was submitted to conceptart.com environment of the week. This is the final version as I did not manage to finish for the submission but I won nevertheless this time around :) Link:  

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?249833-E-O-W-Round-196-Train-Station-(any-genre)-VOTING  

Production time around 2 days in total.

Sketch Of The Day | 28 09 2012

Busy month and not much opportunities to paint. Here is today's speed painting 1.5 h on top of a plate by Jitu ( original photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/10541586@N07/8028340516/lightbox/ ).Painted in Photoshop.

MPC Alien Cloudscape Results

The competition on mattepainting.org has been finalized. The 3 winners can be viewed here:
http://mattepainting.org/vb/showthread.php?t=7710
I have received a Honorable Mention which is always a positive sign that my work was noticed.

Here is a link to the 4k full resolution image for the interested:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8312/7948173476_b87faf1382_o.jpg

I've been very busy last few weeks due to our move back to Australia. Soon some new paintings will appear here.

MPC Alien Cloudscape - Final Submission on mattepainting.org

After countless hours I finally reached a point where I can't take this any further. I made a list of improvements and tried to troubleshoot my painting. There was around 10 elements which I worked on. They included:

1. Improve foreground clouds of the rings above the cumulonimbus formations
2. Add cirrus clouds on the upper levels as indicated in the concept
3. Improve air flow impression ( add another layer of lower consistency clouds )
4. Emphasise more natural look, storm air spinning feel
5. Add color variety throughout , try varies hues and add to the horizon line color diversity
6. Reduce highlights

I tried to follow the concept art as close as possible and introduced my ideas where there was some space left for creativity.

This was very difficult painting to create and I am happy I pushed myself to do it. The lessons learnt here will definitely pay off in the future. Results coming up in a week or so.

Sketch Of The Day | 29 08 2012

Few days break but here comes another painting exercise. Tough one I must say. Quite challenging color palette at this atmospheric Indian market. Painted from photo reference - Photoshop 2.5h, no color sampling used. Photo reference : Kiwix - http://kiwix.deviantart.com/art/Indian-Market-322132062