Batch 2 - Completed!

The images above, is the item that I need to produce for my client, which are table and chair and then the computer table.

The completed version of models

Batch 1 - Completed!

These are improved version.

Artefact 3 - Original Matte painting

I have used acrylics to paint on glass.

I was planning to do city site, but then I recognised I run out of time, so I decided to do a landscape one with unrealistic sky.

Here is my painting. Tomorrow I will do the filming part. Hopefully, will upload everything by Friday.

Artefact 3- Digital Matte Painting

For my third artefact, Ive decided to do a digital matte painting.

A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build or visit.

Compare the digital matte painting and the original matte painting.

Traditionally, matte paintings were made by artists using paints or pastels on large sheets of glass for integrating with the live-action footage. The first known matte painting shot was made in 1907 by Norman Dawn (ASC)

By the mid-1980s, advancements in computer graphics programs allowed matte painters to work in the digital realm.
The first digital matte shot was created by painter Chris Evans in 1985 for Young Sherlock Holmes for a scene featuring a computer-graphics (CG) animation of a knight leaping from a stained-glass window. Evans first painted the window in acrylics, then scanned the painting into LucasFilm’s Pixar system for further digital manipulation. The computer animation (another first) blended perfectly with the digital matte, something a traditional matte painting could not have accomplished.

Throughout the 1990s, traditional matte paintings were still in use, but more often in conjunction with digital compositing.

Here is my experiment on Digital Matte Painting-









These two are the original photographs from internet.

This is the final outcome :

Matte Painting

I have been searching information on matte painting. and here is the youtube link you may find it interesting.

Artefact 2- Updated!

First experiment wasnt too relevant on this research, so I have decided to create some 3d objects with lighting and showing how important with shadow and without a shadow on the object.

I have created a lamp , glass with water and a key. I have created a lamp because I want to add spot lights into the scene, so the light directly point at the object, that could help me to get the effect I want.

I have saved as an image, and quickly ask 20 people to spot out which image is most realistic to them and why.










All 20 people are saying the image have shadow looks the most realistic.
They said the second reason of realistic is the material affect the overall viewing.

The next artefact I will carry out a short movie clip include everything I have learned in previous artefacts.

Batch1 improvement

This week my client has giving me feedback on the items I did for them last week.
Overall is good and they are impressed. Just a couple things I need to improve on is the textures and the limitation of triangle I used in the item.

NOW I have Improved the work and just sent the items back to my client.

At the moment, Im happy with my client project. haha, but not sure about others one. =.=!!

Artefact 2 - Shadow

I was looking at shadow, partly use the idea to improve the first artefact.

I was playing around with the effects.

Didnt use any 3d model yet, but will do afterwards.

Client Project- Batch 1

The images for batch 1 has arrived on Monday. I am trying to get it done by this friday. It is abit hard to make the items within 500 triangles.
It is giving me headache..Urgh~~~~~
Here are the items I need to create in 3d.