digital matte paintings

[Atomick]

I've been working on some digital matte "paintings" as fun, personal projects using photos I've shot myself. Well, less paintings and much more reconstructions and extensions! Just thought I'd post up something different than my usual fare and see what y'all thought.

On this one, the source material is 10 shots from different glens in Scotland, 4 shots from the Sierra Nevadas, and two of the California coastline. The spires were painted from scratch based on cliff-face reference.

http://www.atomick.net/conceptArtForum/glen_stitch.jpg

http://www.atomick.net/conceptArtForum/glen_cu.jpg

This one is based on sand tufa formations from Mono Lake, on the California/Nevada border up in the mountains. These bizarre (and somewhat sinister) "cliffs," in reality, are only about 12" tall. The water and birds are from the Northern California coast.

http://www.atomick.net/conceptArtForum/tufascape.jpg

This last one is just a quick test. The double-hump shape of the mountain ridge is from the original photo.

http://www.atomick.net/conceptArtForum/Ahncrag.jpg

[Groady]

holy crap! can you post the original pictures for comparison?

[Makafui]

indeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed, ya im curios too i wanna see the originals please :) would be cool to have the differences in ur face :)

[Atomick]

Groady, I've been trying to find all the source, but I've only been able to get a few together. But here's a representative sample.

http://www.atomick.net/conceptArtForum/matte/1.jpg http://www.atomick.net/conceptArtForum/matte/2.jpg http://www.atomick.net/conceptArtForum/matte/3.jpg http://www.atomick.net/conceptArtForum/matte/4.jpg

http://www.atomick.net/conceptArtForum/matte/5.jpg http://www.atomick.net/conceptArtForum/matte/6.jpg http://www.atomick.net/conceptArtForum/matte/7.jpg http://www.atomick.net/conceptArtForum/matte/8.jpg

...and yes, I am embarassed to say, that IS my camera strap right across the fifth image.:mad: Blurry stuff is ALWAYS the hardest to remove!

[davi]

these are great man! i really like the first one, the stream coming off the mountian is very odd, but so odd it's cool.