Digital Matte Painting Project 1: Virtual Plain Air

22/4/2025 - 20/6/2025 / Week 1 - Week 10

Dow Jia Zheng - 0354184 / 040604-14-1581

Digital Matte Painting / Bachelors of Design in Creative Media / Taylors Lakeside Campus

Digital Matte Painting Project 1: Virtual Plein Air /  - Individual

INSTRUCTIONS


Links : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T_UrCNoUiAJluG9ggwohnaaks3s4PkIe/view?usp=drive_link



Module Synopsis

Visual Effects with Computer Graphic Imagery (CGI) is prevalent in most blockbuster movies and the craft of matte painting has been used as set extensions to supplement CGI elements in creating the illusion of an environment where budget and time constraints may not allow for full CGI implementation, real sets to be constructed or even filming at the actual locations. 

Students in this module will attain mastery in photo manipulation, day to night, summer to winter, clean up or set extensions creation. Sketching, composition, chiaroscuro, focal points, figure ground relationships, perspective and colour theory knowledge and skill will also be learned, combining traditional and digital tools. 

The module prepares students for the movie production industry to create highly convincing cinematic panoramas with mastery over digital painting and composition skills for scenes and shots. Students will learn various techniques in using drawing, painting and photography to construct 2.5D or 3D scenes in realizing story worlds that are convincing and believable to the audience. A project-based learning method will be adopted with a balance of foundational education and software-based technical training that emphasizes on extensive and in-depth skill development relevant to the demands of the industry. 

The assessment approach involves Continuous Assessment which includes Exercises and Projects that are prescribed throughout the semester while the Final Assessment is a Final Project and Portfolio submission which takes place at the end of the semester.



Weekly Project 1 Progression



Figures 1.0: Environment Design Moodboard


Links : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YjYn-ekSC1yPPCEnmlNWYMjU5eBzq9wq/view?usp=sharing






Figures 1.1: Week 2 Concept Art 1


Figures 1.2: Week 2 Concept Art 2


Figures 1.3: Week 3 Concept Art 3





Figures 1.4: Week 5 Concept Art 4




Figures 1.5: Week 7 Concept Art 5





Project 1 Final Submission


Figures 2.0: Digital Matte Painting Project 1: Virtual Plain Air (PDF)


Links : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tvnmbnmf7IFt3r-YXcexSpFYoNujYf6G/view?usp=sharing






Reflection 

In project 1 of the Virtual Plain Air where I illustrate concept sketches

 organizes and design the best I can to be realistically as possible using the lessons that I have been taught with where using the knowledge's to skills that I inquired during the course of working on project 1 and 2, but still digital matte painting is still the hardest for me grasp.

I have encountered deadlock where my brain couldn't work for a moment and struggling to make my design to be realistic at all as it took time for me to find the right tools to use along with the methods needed to employed to solved.

I have to go with multiple of illustration design for both Project 1 & 2 where I redo the design many time as trying to make it into a working form. Ultimately I was able complete the design, where Digital Matte Painting is perhaps the hardest to master for me.

In the end I decided to completely redesign to instead of the Avenger Tower where I decided to use the Empire State Building from New York City as the base where I cut out from one of the Avenger tower images and place on the head of the Empire State Building where I than began add shadow along changing the background sky to sunset including with clouds.

For the animated Thematic Matte Painting (VFX) where I animated the clouds as it is moving in the background where simultaneously adding ray of light to emulate the sun shining down onto the structure. 




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