Haunted Chateau Matte Painting

Haunted Chateau Matte Painting, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.

another older work done almost 2 years ago. this one is all photo manipulation and some light hand painting to create some details such as holes in the roof with rafters showing and reflections on windows and a few hand painted reflections as highlights here and there...



Quick build-up of my Haunted Chateau matte painting done for www.CGTantra.com April, 2009 Matte Painting Challenge.

CGChannel April 2010 Matte Painting

Another one being posted out-of-order. someday i'll be all caught up and my posts will become chronological... maybe i can change the date on this or something..

This is my (winning!) entry for CGChannel.com April 2010 matte painting challenge themed "Alice in wonderland"
my work-in-progress forum is here

CGChannel April 2010 Matte Painting, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.

here's the vid of the entire process squished down into about 20 minutes
i didn't add a soundtrack so if you feel like watching the whole thing i'd recommend logging onto pandora.com or something similar and get some tunes playing!


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CGChannel September Matte Painting Challenge

Based on the time constraints, I'm probably getting in a little over my head with this one. I've got some plans to work out still with a few elements which right now seem like the method of execution may be slightly convoluted. I'll see if I can work out something better and try to explain it all when I'm finished.

This vid is still a work in progress but I'm putting it at the top of this post because as I progress with this I'll be replacing this video with whatever the most up-to-date version is...
better to watch full screen btw.






Barad Dur WIP V1, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.

This month's cgchannel.com challenge is lord of the rings themed. this is my early verion. still quite a long way to go. this challenge will include an animated camera or two that i'll post up here by early next month. more updates to come!



really quick, VERY low res test render to see what i'll need to cover with my matte painting.
big chunk of mountains missing and some problems with projection on a few object right now but i have those parts broken out for individual projection for the final....
should have better update soon!




Mostly modeled in 3ds max but i've been using zbrush for rocks and some of the smaller details. still going with this but most likely won't need to model too much higher than what's seen here. only the base will be visible in the matte painting... more soon!