Matte Painting

I attempted to create my very own matte painting today.  However, before I show it to you, I should explain what a matte painting is!

A matte painting is a background that is either 2D or 3D that is used for chroma key replacement.
What?  It is a bunch of pictures all edited into a single photo using a photo editor.  Such as Photoshop or Gimp.

What is chrome key?  Chroma key is the proper way of saying, green screen or blue screen.

Let me give an example.  Lets say that there is a scene in a movie that is being shot by the mountains. You have two options to shoot the scene.

1. Go find some mountains that suit you needs, or
2. Green screen the background out so you can insert a matte painting of your own mountains.

Here is two pictures that demonstrates what I mean...

That is the power of a matte painting!  OK, so now you want to see mine, right.

Here it is!

In this picture I had about 75 layers of items.  I was able to do this matte out of only 9 pictures.  It is still far from perfect!  My green on the vines is still to bright and the proportion of the pillars is not quite fitting to the buildings.  But that is how you learn, right!

Have you ever attempted a matte painting?

The Two Lords Of Ashington Trailer

Finally, after many weeks of thought, and trail and error, we are proud to present to you:

THE TWO LORDS OF ASHINGTON TRAILER

Photo extension

In the video world, you would call this set extension.  However, in the photographers world it has a different name and you can probably guess what it is called.  Yup, you guessed it, photo extension.

The original:

The final:

The hardest part was getting the grass to line up.  It still isn't perfect, you can see a line if you look close enough.  That was the real reason why I did the final in black and white.  It was to hard to get the grass colors to line up.

Here is the mountain picture, for those of you who are interested.

Fireworks Tutorial

For those of you who requested a tutorial on how to do fireworks in a photo editor, here you are!

Sorry for the overly annoying, treble S's.  I should of added more bass to my voice.

Fireworks

I learned how to do fireworks in Photoshop the other day...

Believe it or not, it is actually very easy!