Underwater Research Facility

Concept environment of top secret facility strictly focused on weapons research. Somewhere in Chinese Sea.

I created low resolution 3d model in 3d max and painted over in Photoshop. Having the 3d model to work with gives great opportunity to explore different angles and camera types.

Temple of Kong

After painting few pieces for weekly Conceptart.org environments I decided to have a go with another matte painting competition on CG Channel. This time it is based on one of my favorite movies - Peter Jackson's King Kong. Plate was given by host Johnathan Berube and here is my concept painting. Matte painting should take at least a week to finish especially as I will need to create high resolution model for the foreground as I'm planning move camera forward few meters.  For the piece you see here I used some basic 3d created in 3d max rest was painted in Photoshop using Wacom tablet.

At The Banks of Glowing River

Environment concept. The idea of glowing river and whole planet during the night is not new to us. Avatar showed us how gorgeous this can look. I still remember the big gasp in the cinema when I watched the film. Anyway, this is not supposed to be on Pandora. Concept of glowing river is just super cool and this is my version of it.

T Rex Valley

I am a huge fan of Peter Jackson's King Kong and really love the design work Weta Digital artists did on that amazing film. So here is a fan art and good practice exercise in the same time. Actually this was initially done for a project that didn't go ahead. In the brief T-Rex shaped rock was supposed to be right under the waterfall. Hope you enjoy

Debris

Post hurricane debris field - environment concept.

Painted digitally in Photoshop with minimal use of textures. Painting time around 3.5h. Originally I wanted to include flower of hope growing out of the displaced root in the foreground but it just didn't work

Game of Thrones Fan Art

Matte painting of the House Bolton of the Dreadfort. Idea was to create dramatic image depicting sinister castle of one of the houses in the story of Game of Thrones. The image was part of the competition hosted on CG Channel.

Composited in Photoshop , castle modeled and rendered in 3d Max/VRay .

Animated camera projection can be found at around 01:23sec of my showreel : https://vimeo.com/45778958
Projection was done in 3d Max, composited in After Effects where I also added falling snow and birds flock.

Rouge City Matte Painting

Final entry to the online matte painting competition based on Steven Spielberg's Rouge City theme. It won the first place.

Foreground has been given. Everything else behind is modeled in 3d Max and rendered with VRay. Distortion was applied in Photoshop and then reflected in 3d set up of the scene.
Final comp done in PS.

WIP:
http://forums.cgchannel.com/showthread.php?t=14379

PLATE:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30343787@N07/6440487919/in/photostream/lightbox