My first Matte attempt

J.R. Hudson

J.R. Hudson

Spirit Animal
Alright PS Lovers. Here is my first matte (from a tutorial). Learned a ton on this one. I can see what does and what does not work. Tons of layers and things going on here.

The cool thing would be to actually film and use this as a matte; which is my goal of course!

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Thats really amazing! Nice job. to put that image in motion will be quite the task though....
 
Of everything in that composite, you know what I think sells it? That extra steeple in the background.

Nice work!
 
Looks good. We should start a thread about how one would incorporate something like this into a movie.
 
Thanks dudes!

Took a few hours; sipping some wine, jamming to some old school Ratt and Van Halen tunes.... Oh sorry.

The church steeple really does sell it; thanks David. I think the trick on this Matte would be to have the birds become a separate element via After Effects and also have the lightining and clouds be separate....

Also would have to better plan where the talent would be if putting live bodies into it; which is what I want to do this weekend.

Learned so much on this. Between the sapce and this one I have taken Quantam Leaps in my PS skills this week. Amazing what few Tutorials will do for you
 
If you want to use a still matte as a background plate (or mid-plate, or whatever), apply a little animated noise or grain to it in Vegas or whatever else you're using. It'll give the impression of a locked-down motion camera, because there will be a little bit of motion in the plate. Of course, less is more. You're selling an impression, not an effect.
 
I unfortunately tend to produce images that would make a five year old blush. Just missing that left brain interaction. damn!
 
Looks good John, buy you might need to keep in mind where the light is coming from.
You seem to have a couple of sources of moonlight.

Good stuff.
 
Thanks James

Yeah Pookie; I noticed that. I was in such a hurry to get the Toot done I didnt even look for those details until I noticed it 3 hours later :p

Stay tuned Dave! I'm gonna try and do a nice plate this weekend!!
 
Great stuff John! I've been working on learning this stuff as well because I intend to use matte paintings in 2.5d instead of 3D. Much easier.

The birds and lightning would have to be done in AE as you say. Not particularily hard. In fact you could get really crazy and create some faux camera dollys with a greenscreened person and an extra large matte (and motion tracking of course)!
 
TOTALLY!

It's not like I can create some crazy ass CGI 3D XSI Studio Max crap so I have to go old school like ILM in the good ole days
 
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