Rock Castle Matte Painting
2007 - Adobe Photoshop - Maxon Cinema 4D - Autodesk Combustion
The early sketch I started from.
This is a matte painting I designed and realized for a personal project.
I started from the above sketch and I create a base for this painting using hundreds of little pieces from about 45 photographs taken from the web.
I spent a lot of hours in painting and in color correcting tasks in order to blend these references together.
Photoshop layers folders helped me to paint directly on different depth levels, so I projected these layers on simple 3D geometry in order to animate the camera.
As usual, I composited the rendering output using Autodesk Combustion and I inserted additional effects like dust and volumetric lights, lens flares and glows.