3D Animated Matte Painting with Scene Breakdown
I made this on a dual core computer with an old on-board graphics card on a motherboard I bought in 2007 and 2Gb of RAM.
A matte painting recreation of the final year work of Shivas Thilak, a very talented Vancouver Film School student who now works for Industrial Light and Magic. His version is so much better than mine, but I'd never even heard of the term 'matte painting' before November 2012.
This is my first proper matte painting. I created the initial scene from scratch in Photoshop by blending together various photos that I found on Google. I spent about 4 days creating the scene in Photoshop last December, then constructed the 3D geometry in Cinema 4D. I first started using Cinema 4D in March 2012. My first attempt at constructing the geometry failed, as the lighting looked terrible, so I gave up on the project. But it turned out to be something very small. I just had to add a compositing tag to each plane and deselect 'cast' and 'receive' shadows. That did the trick. The final touches were done in After Effects, then the music was added in Premiere and exported for upload to YouTube.
I've been struggling to find the best format for YouTube but can't seem to find the sweet spot yet. Just about ready to give up on that one! I can get it to play smooth but with a very poor picture or jerky with a semi-clear picture - can't seem to win, so I chose jerky with a semi-clear picture. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Hope you like it anyway :-)
Check out Shivas Thilak's version, then you'll see how bad mine looks next to his:
• A Matte Painting / VFX Demo reel ( Vancouv...
Software used:
Photoshop
Cinema 4D
After Effects
Premiere