Tony Stark's Mt. Pilatus mansion, CGChannel May matte painting FINAL

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Tony Stark's Mt. Pilatus mansion, CGChannel May matte painting FINAL, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.

Camera Move UPdated WIP from Gordon Tarpley on Vimeo.

Original sketch for the architectural layout of the house.


Since this image was to be based on an actual location I did a little research online and found a spot that would fit the description.



This matte painting was actually 2 separate matte paintings, one for the foreground cliff


and one for the background mountains.Which were based on a combination of a panoramic photo from Mt.Pilatus and google earth terrain data that I imported into sketchup then exported to 3ds max which is accurate to all the elevations of the background mountains. (but not recommended, the time to cleanup the geometry was substantial!)


and the house model



color coded wireframe to show the 3 main elements...


All of the elements, along with velocity, zdepth passes and some extra atmosphere, were composed in Nuke.





Other stuff that went along with this project...
a video made with debut while modeling one of the helicopters used in this scene...

Modeling the AW139 from Gordon Tarpley on Vimeo.




and an quick photoshop doodle based on the location for this piece

View From Mount Pilatus speed paint from Gordon Tarpley on Vimeo.