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Posted on 24/07/07 06:56:53 AM |
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stefan
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'London National History Museum MattePainting Tutorial'
http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/London_National_History_Museum/london_museum_01.asp Enjoy..!... |
Posted on 24/07/07 8:35:01 PM |
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Pierre
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Re: 'London National History Museum MattePainting Tutorial'
Wow! Not much of the original left, huh? Great mood. So Stefan, when will we see one of your matte paintings??  _________________ |
Posted on 05/08/07 9:06:17 PM |
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stefan
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Re: 'London National History Museum MattePainting Tutorial'
I'm still trying Pierre, but haven't got too much time at the mo due to work and I'm spending most of my free time on learning to model and texture in Maya. I find 3D absolutely fascinating...and very frustrating at times  But one day....... |
Posted on 06/08/07 00:37:04 AM |
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Pierre
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Re: 'London National History Museum MattePainting Tutorial'
Oh boy... I've tried Maya about 2 years ago and found that a lot of time is needed to get the hang of it (strange and complex interface). One suggestion: model in another doftware (if you can) and then bring the model to Maya for redering. Modeling is really the hard part in that software. I use Rhino for modeling. Do let us see some of your tries though. _________________ |
Posted on 04/09/07 6:39:50 PM |
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stefan
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Re: 'London National History Museum MattePainting Tutorial'
Ok Pierre,sorry for the late reply...I've just seen your answer now. Haven't tried Rhino yet. As for the modeling bit..I can handle most stuff now.My new ( well not that new but...) discovery is Zbrush. Now I can do a fairly basic mesh of say..a dinosaur in Maya and then do all the exciting stuff in Zbrush which I think is quite fantastic. Version 3 is brilliant for texturing too (poly painting...) You can go really really go high res now in it, which means you're virtually paining on the vertex equivalent of pixels. But what I'm really trying to get a grip on is car modeling. I've got a couple of excellent DVD's (digital tutors) which I'm working my way through at the mo. Do you model cars? In your profession I would assume so.. Oh, but this is a photoshop forum  |
Posted on 04/09/07 10:19:36 PM |
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Pierre
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Re: 'London National History Museum MattePainting Tutorial'
Well I personnaly don't. I'm more into ATVs, snowmobile, sport boats. And I am more at this point in my career where I do project management. I got a few friends who went to the Nice Car Design schools in the US and they certainly are modeling cars and they use Alias!! Again, let us see your tries! Just add Steve's face in your image and that will do it for this forum  _________________ |
Posted on 07/09/07 7:36:39 PM |
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stefan
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Re: 'London National History Museum MattePainting Tutorial'
So here we go. A Spitfire, textured in Photoshop...Blood,sweat and a few tears....but I'm happy with the result. Did that with the step by step DVD so I don't know if I could repeat that without it....but hey..that's how you learn 3D I guess..repeat stuff until you can do it with your eyes closed. And an improvised plane..not very good but ok except for the tail part. That was easier as I was only doing techniques that I was really comfortable with at that stage.  |
Posted on 07/09/07 7:37:33 PM |
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stefan
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Posted on 08/09/07 01:29:37 AM |
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Pierre
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Re: 'London National History Museum MattePainting Tutorial'
Man, you're pretty good! Much better then I ever got! A friend of mine gave me a trick that helps remove the "computer made" look. Just add a slight Gaussian blur in Photoshop on your final image so it is not as crisp. BTW I really like the lighting and refleciton of the second one. Great work. Textures on the first one is just great. How long did it take you??  _________________ |
Posted on 08/09/07 06:57:26 AM |
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stefan
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Re: 'London National History Museum MattePainting Tutorial'
Thanks Pierre, I took me about a week doing that Spitfire. Texturing was not that hard (proper UV mapping was....for me anyway). The hardest part was getting the bump map right so it looked like panels. As for the other one, that was done in a couple of hours, mostly using nurbs and duplicating a lot of stuff. The lighting is just final gathering using the white background (for lack of a better word) as the lightsource. Thanks for the tip. Maybe I'll add a bit of noise too? |
Posted on 08/09/07 7:11:38 PM |
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Pierre
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Re: 'London National History Museum MattePainting Tutorial'
Here I made a test with the Spitfire: Gaaussian Blurred a copy of the original layer at 0,5 pixel (this becomes a base image; I keep the original but don't use it, just in case). Then I create a copy of that new layer and G-Blur it at 2,5 pixels. I use a gradient layer mask forom visible at the top to invisible at the bottom to create a sense of depth of field. I then painted out (on the mask) some of the details of the plane that would still be in focus. Takes 2 minutes and does the job qiuite well I think.
Edit: Oh i did not put any noise. I forgot to try... _________________ |
Posted on 17/09/07 7:04:47 PM |
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stefan
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Re: 'London National History Museum MattePainting Tutorial'
Thanks Pierre , looks really good. |