London National History Museum MattePainting
STEP3 – FINAL MATTEPAINTING
The first step of this stage was to block in the new ground.
Next
is to refine the ground a little by adding new mixture of grass and stones from other photos and also a dirt layer for the front pillar set to overlay, just to suggest the ageing. Next, I added some crosses from different pictures
Note that the position of the crosses will change until the end. Next step was to expand the set more on the right, left and bottom
I also started to cut out parts of the building to open up the scene. This was made by painting the mask with a hard round brush with 100% opacity. Added more crosses and some grass. Next was to make the sky
I imported a picture with a cloudy sky and since it was too bright, I had to play around with the hue/saturation until I managed to make it as I wanted to be.
