After much delay, I have now finished the matte painting I had started on the seventh week of the Gnomon Workshop in Hollywood. Previously said, I had problems with some parts of the foliage because it all looked identical. I avoided this by adding several different looking foliage and applying the clone tool as well as using the masking tool. Before, I had just used the clone tool on one photo I had inserted as a pose to many , and what this did was make the mountain I was filling in appear fake. Here’s the transition from the concept art to the matte painting.
In the matte painting, I took away a few of the mountains at the far back because it was too cluttered up and wasn’t good for the composition. This was more of a value study as a pose to a matte painting. I wanted to see if what I had learned from Robh Ruppel could have changed my matte painting just as it did my concept art…………… and I believe it has.