Acute Sky

Acute Sky

I spent some time tonight cleaning up this sky.  I think I'm going to finish this one instead of just stopping here. I like its composition. I just need to figure out what to do in the white area and refine some blobby areas at this point. 

Acute

Acute

2 hour practice before teaching a class at Future Poly on Monday evening.

Mush!

 Mush!

Is how my brain is feeling lately.

I was messing around in maya modeling trees and rendering a light direction. I liked that process a lot..

Background is painted and foreground all painted over.





A version without Mushy.





Quick sketches before starting

 

fishy

Quick sketch before jumping back on a bigger project.

Squids with Mustaches

Squids with Mustaches:  weekend thumbnails

A collection of rough sketches from the weekend.  I'm planning on taking the 1st and 2nd image to full matte painting.  The bottom 4 were all created in the thought that they may be the same world. 

Besides... squids and mustaches...

Ice Matte

Ice Matte

Lots of work here.  I wanted to do a large range of ice/snow mountains. I played with adding several elements in.  There are about 40 photos used with layer masks.  Still a lot to do in order to clean it up, but I may move on as I learned a ton from this.
This is a 4k, but only posting the 2k for now.

Beams. As usual.

Scratch photo ref sheet
Just a few of the images used.

Moving on - Spire Final Matte

Spire

I'm calling it done for this one. Learned a ton regarding Matte paintings and I plan to do more.  Thanks to everyone who helped provide critique and high-fives when needed.