Matte Painting.

Following my tutorial with Simon on Friday, I agreed to look at more personal and relevant matters surrounding nature and human beings. He mentioned matte painting, which I had a little experience of and it gave me an idea of perhaps I could create an image of what could happen if we continue to ignore nature and think we can overcome it. I thought perhaps that I could use examples of what is happening currently and take it to an extreme to make a point. To do this, I did a tutorial from video copilot in matte painting for set extension.

Here is the original footage:

And here is the final outcome:

After doing this tutorial I can see the amount of time it takes to do an effect like this, and it was actually less complicated than I thought it would be. It gives me a bit of reassurance on the timing front, and also I like the effect it gives. It's not quite photo real, but if you work at it rather than do a quick tutorial like I did, then it should look pretty good.

I think next I'll research lots of examples of the kind of natural events I am talking about that involve destruction of human property and such to see how I can use this in my piece.