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starglider2 · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 3:27 am

Why not a landscape thread --- here we go
with a very intense and deep study......

balistic · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 8:24 am

Here are a couple older ones:

Awetopsy · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 8:29 am

I too have a couple of old ones.

Hyptosis · member Member # Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Posts: 507

Awesome thread, cityscapes count? I don't have many landscape I want to show anyone =P

thinkwink · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 12:18 pm

an old one, but one of my favorites...

starglider2 · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 2:02 pm

nice people nice ! make this the dreamscape hideout for a while ;-)) so detailed, itz amazing...like thinkwink, how did u do that green leafs picture ? digital ? oil ? how long did u work on it ?

thinkwink · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 4:00 pm

starglider... All done in photoshop 6 from start to finish... loosely based on a photo I took in a local park.

Finer · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 10:33 pm

Max · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 11:04 pm

I hope seascapes are allowed too....

Old one.

saripol · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 1:25 am

well since everybody is posting an old one.. here's a couple from me

thinkwink · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 5:27 am

Anders... that second landscape kicks!!! Very nice indeed!

Another older one...

[ October 17, 2002: Message edited by: thinkwink ]

Infinity · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 5:48 am

old one...

older one...

ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Presuming the guys at Pipex get their act together...

Swarm · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 8:35 am

really great work everyone...
Finner I love your works... :)

Awetopsy · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:07 am

Saripol: that first one seriously looks like a hotel we have here in Kelowna

really crappy image of it... but I think you can see the resemblance.

thinkwink · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 3:45 pm

nuther one

Duracel · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 4:32 pm

oh, nice, a Diablo2 TownPortal Fanart ...

PS: Some work is really more than amazing!
I have no landsape in my portfolie ... well its missing ...

Malachi Maloney · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 6:54 pm

I love that one of the grotto, Phil. Might be my favorite out of all your stuff, it's fantastic.

Great work everyone.

~M~

Mindsiphon · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 11:36 pm

I just posted this recently but it seems fitting to post it here too.

stein · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 12:49 am

wow...what a great thread!
I think i've posted this before...but who cares?

(its a background for a puppetanimation-film)

saripol · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 1:12 am

Awetopsy.. yep it's kinda looked like it.. but that is actually what i see when i look through my window.. it's an apartment building..

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balistic · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 7:59 am

Skybox I painted for a game that was never released. The lighting looks odd because it's not just a panorama, it's a full 360-degree projection.

stein · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 10:23 am

might as well post another one..(i'm still working on this one)
Yep..the perspective on those cannons isn't correct

Got kinda satisfied with the lighting, tough.

Stein

crazybread · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 12:01 pm

Great stuff guys!
here is mine. It's a matte painting background for a dragon sequence for a monitor playback for the band Rush. Actually for their concert tour thats going on now. What you see here is not quite done yet. hope you like it anyway.

stein · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 12:09 pm

Wow, crazybread...that's one hell of a painting..
How long did you work on this one? I really like the texture-work...you wanna share any secrets on making texture like that?

Stein

balistic · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 2:13 pm

quote:
Originally posted by crazybread:

Shadows are a bit too sharp in this one, assuming you're after realism.

If we can't see the sun from our position, then that hill sloping towards us definitely can't see it. Therefore, the shadows from those stones would be cast by scattered skylight, not direct sunlight, and would be greatly diffused with distance.

Looks great otherwise.

crazybread · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 10:21 pm

Thanx Stein.

This is actually a 3d matte painting done in Maya. I suggest building the rough scene in 3d, throwing some rough textures on it and rendering it (whatever software you use). You'll get the outline and the basics of it all. Once you have that, paint, clone, doodle, or do whatever you need to do to this image in photoshop to make it look exactly like you want it, then if for some crazy reason you decide to animate a camera arround it in 3d, project the whole thing with the same camera you rendered it from(make sure it hasn't moved though) and turn your lights off. Ohh one more thing if you decide on rendering it with a camera move make sure that this texture is projected as an image or use a material with the image source under either constant or incandescence
settings. Turn your original lights off and create another camera to rotate arround it. Practice it enough and you'll be making 3d castles like the ones in LOTR in no time. Remember this will render your scene in about 10 sec. a frame since there would be no lights in your scene at that point. The incandescence mapping allows the texture to just display so it doesn't really render it.

(Sorry about the explaining thing I tend to suck at that) Hope this helps you!

Balistic: Yes i agree with you 110% There is no sun in this scenee, so the shadows look out of place. Not only that, but Since its suppose to be morning and the sun is just supose to be rising this image would appear much darker in reality. The background layer is only a default backdrop, so the finished project has real clouds and a real sun composited in it. The end sequence works quite well as the shadows match and slowly move as the sun rises over a 3 min or so perriod. I'm glad You pointed this out as it might give some new-b-s an interesting study of what's wrong with this pic.

thanx

Snorkles · Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 4:16 am

worked a couple of hours on this one, quite happy with it. sorry for the biggness, should've scaled it.

thinkwink · Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 5:12 am