Raz Media matte painting

Sharing with you my latest matte painting for Raz Media in Perth/Australia. Music video by western Australian band Origin to their track "Something Stronger" takes place on deserted,unknown planet with rigid, volcanic and uninviting landscape. The foreground will be part of the footage shot in the green screen studio. The 3d digital model will extend the set and the matte painting will fill the far background as well as the sky. I will post final video here once it's finished and posted online by Raz Media. What you see here is in 90% photographs with some mountains in the far background rendered in Vue xStream 10. Combined in PS CS5.5

Temple of Kong matte painting competition results

The CG Channel's March King Kong competition has come to an end and the results were announced yesterday.
I made the second place this time which is great! Congratulations Bobby and Gene! Great paintings this time around.

Results thread:
http://forums.cgchannel.com/showthread.php?p=21317&posted=1#post21317

Temple of Kong - Final matte painting

Here is finished " Temple of Kong" matte painting for the CG Channel competition. You can find the sketch for this competition in one of the previous posts. The plan was to include ZBrush sculpt in the foreground but unfortunately I ran out of time. I might do projection in the future and post it here so come back sometime. The WIP thread that shows few steps of the process can be viewed here :
http://forums.cgchannel.com/showthread.php?t=14732

I have created basic 3d model in 3d Max. I matched the perspective and rendered fairly simple RGB pass and textured it in Photoshop. I used 3d trees in order to achieve maximum lighting accuracy, they are not hyper realistic but will have to do for now. Waterfalls come from various photos as well as the horizon line image.

If you would like to check out animation of this painting with waterfalls in motion and small foreground parallax please check out my reel at around 1min :


https://vimeo.com/45778958

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