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SAE Magazine 13-3

110 PRODUCTION & KNOW HOW // MATTE PAINTING A matte painting can only then work like a photo if the interface between the various stylistic devices such as photos, texturing, painting and 3D cannot be seen. In order to check the work done up until now and above all the perspective and composition reflect the picture horizontally and then finally vertically. The resulting effect is as simple as it is helpful. As our eyes become accustomed very quickly to the image and the perspective it is increasingly difficult with time to find errors in the perspective. As a re- sult of the reflections the brain will produce a new visual image which is possible to analyse and trou- bleshoot the image without any preconceived opin- ions. The final step in this section is to correct any errors found by this method. Matte painting - the foreground After completing the middle ground it is now time to deal with the foreground. To make working with ground textures as uncomplicated as possible, you have to create a new layer first. With a round brush that is not sensitive to pressure draw a black silhou- ette from the ground and the mountain on the left. Continue to roughly cut out the photo of a pebble beach with the selection tool and add it to the PSD. As usual, colour and perspective correction have to be carried out. Since we’re looking at the dark side here, you have to take out the warm colours from the image. Since the stones are difficult to adjust in terms of perspective and size, we need to use another trick: copy the image several times, blur it a bit with the help of the transform tool and adjust it to the desired perspective. In doing so, you have to make sure to only use small stones. For the time being, the ro continue with the details a Moving on to the mountai to with a lot of debris, su stone mountain, roughly c adjust perspective, colou beach from the beginning checkpoint. Do not under process because your exa save you time at a later p ing the corners and edge and use a round brush. Th goal of making the cleane tween the debris and the The same applies to the o tain where one represents produce a harmonious en

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