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Learn to Concept Matte Paintings for Games and Film
Rating: 4.4 out of 5(162 ratings)
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Learn to Concept Matte Paintings for Games and Film

Learn the Techniques for Creating Believable Environment Concepts
Created by3dmotive LLC
Last updated 9/2016
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Utilize foundations for concepting environments
  • Utilize Value Sketching
  • Understand Photobashing to create convincing environment designs

Course content

2 sections • 17 lectures • 2h 46m total length

  • Download Course Files Here!0:04
  • Introduction0:49

    Join a beginner-friendly intro to concept matte painting for games and film. Learn environment design basics—perspective, value, structure, and composition, and see how the instructor creates environments in Photoshop.

  • Understanding Perspective15:06

    Master perspective in matte paintings by balancing one-, two-, and three-point systems with vanishing points on the horizon, while using atmospheric perspective, foreshortening, and camera lens effects.

  • Lighting Basics8:02

    Explore how hard (direct) and soft (diffused) lighting shape mood by contrasting one-directional shadows with multi-directional diffuse illumination from clouds, sun, and diffusers.

  • Values and Tonal Range6:25

    Analyze the environment’s value structure, balancing dark, medium, and light with asymmetrical composition. Explore lighting conditions from low-key to full range, avoiding extreme white or black.

  • Composition Basics5:21

    Master composition by arranging elements with a rule of thirds, balancing focal points, and guiding the viewer’s eye through the foreground, middle ground, and background.

  • Composition Examples8:58

    Explore how composition guides the viewer’s eye to a focal area through visual guides, lines, and movement, using contrast, color, and saturation to tell a compelling story in matte paintings.

  • Brushes and Photoshop Setup5:51

    Set up a Photoshop painting workflow with a widescreen aspect ratio and 3000–4000 px canvases, using the eyedropper and basic brushes, with texture controls for organic and hard-surface work.

  • Thumbnailing6:22

    Thumbnailing guides you to create quick silhouette sketches, flat values, and hard-edged brush work to design a military outpost in an alien landscape, then develop rapid composition sketches.

  • Roughing in the Forms18:58

    Rough in an alien landscape by blocking foreground, midground, and background with a three-value structure, starting with the sky to set lighting and a focal building.

  • Solidifying the Forms13:01

    Prioritize value over color to create believable matte paintings, then refine textures with small brushes and careful overpainting, guided by nature and master works to shape composition and focal point.

Requirements

  • Adobe Photoshop

Description

This 2D environment design course covers the basic principles of creating environment design, and the foundation and methods of creating environment design from start to finish. Here you will take a journey through the whole process which is very commonly used in the film and video game industry. Starting with basics like perspective, lighting, value structure, composition and then taking you through each and every step and ending with the demonstration of good use of photo bashing technique. Here the clearly explained and demonstrated workflow will make it very easy for the beginners to start their artistic journey.

(Students - please look under Section 1 / Lecture 1 downloads for the source files associated with the lesson.)

More about the Instructor:

Waqas Malik is an environment concept artist based in Pakistan. He studied fine arts and digital art, and loves creating visual stories using skills in the digital medium. Waqas' focus is in creating video games and movies. He have worked freelance for studios and now i am working full time on his own CG project.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for the beginners who are having difficulty finding a workflow to start their artistic journey.

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