Here's a little something that I did some years ago, back when I was doing my animation studies (2008). We had to create a matte-painting (well, "painting" isn't what I'd call it, more like "photo-manipulation"). This was actually the first assignment I had to do for the course, to show that I can infact use applications like Photoshop.
Basically what a lot of us did, was take a picture of some kind of landscape then alter it until it looked much different than what it originally was - usually transforming it into a ruin, which pretty much is exactly what I did!
This was my matte entry. The City Ruin.
Ok, so this image (above) was the original picture that I used in creating my matte-painting. The original image is called City Street by DMSpotts10.
This was the initial stage of the experience. I took the original image and placed it into a landscape oriented workspace.
Ok, so the first major thing I needed to do was go through the image and remove things that I didn't want in the image. Cleaning the shot. Removed things like parked cars, pedestrians, banners and lights.
Now I had the idea for a concept of a post earth-quake type catastrophic scene, so at this stage I tore the image apart and did some resizing to show more of the buildings. I also added some things like graffiti, smashed building windows, changed the colour of the tree and desaturated the overall colours in the scene.
In this step, I added the look of earth below the street level as well as some cracks in the road and a car wreck.
Started working on the distant background element of the scene. I brought in some additional buildings and arranged them in a "ruiny" kind of way.
In this stage of the matte, I added some thick cloud for the background and some mist around the foreground area.
The final step was colour-grading the scene, and voila!
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