The Prologue

“The Prologue ” by Ismail Kemal Ciftcioglu

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Hi all, In this article I’ll explain how I made “the Prologue” matte painting. It started as a speedpaint. I just wanted to paint something and when I was playing with the colors it became a cold looking valley. I always love sunrays so I added some rays to the horizon and then I decided to make it even further and convert it into a photoreal matte painting. After I’ve chosen some photos to work with, I decided to create a distant city.

First, I got some photos from my library. I was very careful that the photos will create the same mood as it is in my concept art so I select them very carefully. First I made the foreground area.

Generally I use custom brushes made by me but really I have no brush sets to work in every painting. Always I need custom brushes in every painting so before I begin I prepare them first. In this foreground area, first I stitched the photos together with careful attention to perspective, light and shadows. Very common error that I see on the internet that most of the beginners stitch photos that have different light sources so shadows don’t match. We must be very careful with that. I painted over some of the areas for more realistic blend between photo references. And also with custom photoshop brushes, I painted more trees on the middle part so we can look at the details there.

For the background, I chose to detail the concept art that I made so with patience paint and paint and so on.. I used some textures on the place that connects the foreground and background area so it looks more photoreal and background blends better with the foreground reality.
I haven’t used hot colors right now because I’ll add them later. Always I make the flat painting first. Как интересно увидеть красивое порно с участием более зрелых партнерш, которые не только обрадуют классным сексом, но и позволят почерпнуть много нового. Обязательно посмотрите порно милф смотреть и получите хороший навык, который наверняка будет на должном уровне оценен половым партнером. Желательно, попробовать это со своей второй половинкой, так что смотреть вдвоем.

Now the city part. I have a 3D city model (made in Maya) that I made for my ARCVS matte painting. I haven’t used that anywhere else so I decided to give it a go one more time. Of course I edited the overall layout of the city so it looks new now. It’s a combination of Ancient Egyptian and Roman architecture. And yes, I love long pillars, great archways etc. Those kind of features make the painting more epic. You must be very careful about your composition. Always it must make you feel that “you wanna be in that place!” whether if it’s nice or bad. For example it’s like a hell but I wanted to walk in the plains of Mordor while watching Lord of the Rings because it’s very well made.

I made a basic render of the city so I can paintover it in Photoshop. So, now time to put some hot colors. To the edge walls of the city, I painted some yellow so when I put sunray to top it will blend perfect. Again, with patience, I painted over the whole 3D model of the city to perfectly blend with the environment and to achieve photoreal look.