Digital Matte Painting Project 1 - Virtual Plein Air

03/04/2023 - 29/05/2023 (Week 1 - 4)
WONG JUN ZHE / 0353613
Digital Matte Painting / B' Creative Media / Taylor's University

Project 1 - Virtual Plein Air

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INSTRUCTIONS

MIB

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You will synthesise the knowledge gained in task 1 anddemonstrate ability to explore and generate 6 sets of matte painted concept based on chosen location via google maps capture or any high res photos. You are to analyse and implement painting techniques for aperiodic change of time with a theme to create photo realistic shot. You will start with color bashing and blocking to identify elements used in consideration of perspective, value, color palette,composition fundamentals etc to obtain believability and realism. Finally you will conclude by selecting and presenting their outputinterpretation in the instructed format/s 

1. Blocking out 3 art work based on the images selected without color picking from the chosen photo.
2. To choose 1 final art work that will be polished and final rendered. 
3. Output render must be in 16:9 widescreen or portrait size 150 dpi minimum.
4. To submit in .pdf compilation of all the all work and one high res image for 1 Final Render. 

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Week 1 - Selecting Landscape Images

I went on https://unsplash.com and looked up for 3 different landscape images: 

1. Lake original photo

2. Mountains original photo

3. Desert original photo

Week 2 - Blocking out 

1. Lake Blockout

2. Mountains Blockout

3. Desert Blockout

Week 3-4 - Final Render Process

I've decided to work on the second option, mountains. 

Outline the rough shapes

Refinement 1

Refinement 2

Final Refinement

It was tricky not being able to use the eyedropper tool directly on the reference photo. This tests my colour accuracy and sensitivity to colours. 

Week 4 - Final Render

Final Render - Mountains

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FEEDBACK

Week 2

Mr Kannan explained to me the importance of seeing the bigger shape, rather than the small details when blocking out the form of the mountains. 

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REFLECTION

Overall, this was quite exciting, as it has been quite some time since I did something as complex and as detailed as this. Though the task is just to copy the original photo, colour picking was challenging without the eyedropper tool. This stress tests, my ability to pick colours correctly just by looking at it.