Digital Matte Painting Final Project: Thematic Matte Painting (VFX)

22/4/2025 - 1/8/2025 / Week 1 - Week 14

Dow Jia Zheng - 0354184 / 040604-14-1581

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

Digital Matte Painting Final Project: Thematic Matte Painting (VFX) /  - Individual


INSTRUCTIONS


Links : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ylWUTiYUmLCY140CXJWsd-83MnWaVyMC/view?usp=sharing




Module Synopsis

Exposure to game art process of creating relatable and appealing game aesthetics that enhances overall game concept that engages end users to the game designed. Students will learn how to express their creativity via multiple sectors of game asset creation and its processes with the understanding of game technical limitations and how to apply it by incorporating with game engine, digital imaging software and 3D software from start to finish. 

The Game Art module will prepare students for the creation of original artworks for the game cinematic and games industries through a series of lectures, guided tutorial (both face to face and online) and studio sessions. Students will learn to tackle the creative process of designing characters, environment, and animation combining traditional drawing and painting techniques, software and digital sculpting techniques and acting skills. 

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.



Project 1 Final Submission


Figures 1.0: Digital Matte Painting Project 1 Virtual Plain Air (PDF)


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





Project 2 Final Submission


Figures 1.1: Digital Matte Painting Project 2 Invisible Set Extension (PDF)


Links : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rpuDRlabQ2WiOr5z6rS-hJWgPLORxoc9/view?usp=sharing




Final Project Submission


Figures 1.2: Digital Matte Painting Final Project: Thematic Matte Painting (PDF)


Links : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ugKo9ZRoN5ol1rL8-TBirmZsWZu9BbaF/view?usp=drive_link







Reflection 

In the final project of Digital Matte Painting Thematic Matte Painting (VFX) where I 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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