One Pre Person project

This is a online collaborative project I've been worked with them since last year.This 3d animation short starts as a passion project by two director--Nasheet Zaman & Jacquelyn Piette and I was impressed by their beautiful preproduction package.
I works as Matte Painter in this talent team and painting the backgrounds for the scenes. Finally, this film is going to final stage--rendering !!This is the kickstarter page they made for funding the rendering farm. Can't wait to see the final film :) 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nasheetzaman/one-per-person-an-animated-short-film



The story is happened in a beach pier surrounding by the ocean. The following are four environment paintings for different sequences.
left-->right are:
1.beginning morning scene: it's the environment for introduction the story.
2.noon scene: it is a hot, sunny noon and the scene's color tend to sky blur
3.gloomy sunrise: this is the saddest moment in the film. It is designed to be cloudy and dark. Dim color been apply to the environment.
4.ending happy sunrise: this is the end of the story, everything end up happily. some purple romantic color been apply to the environment.

This work by Mei-Yu Chen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

[EDW] week4 update

I re-drawn the perspective and move my foreground wall to the left for better composition.

Also, I started the detail paint:
***remove people****

EDW project ideas

In the Experimental Digital Workshop, I'm going to do an independent study on matte painting.

I'm going to create a new tag [EDW] for this serious of articles.

here are two brain-storm ideas for the project:

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the first one is inspirit by the castle photo I took in Mt. St. Micheal

many films have shots like that: having a castle(and character) in the foreground and using a matte painting to create a far mountain background to add depth to the scene. Therefore, I think this photo maybe a good material for me to start my first matte painting project

my plan is:

background:

* add trees and mountain in the back ground

* add a sky

* add mountain&sky reflection on the water

midground:

*add top of castle

*remove people in the original photo

foreground:

* add a CG castle wall and a robot's hand

which need to be lighting & render match the atmosphere of photo

**slowing zoom in the camera

(need to animating background/midground/foreground moving in different speed)

-------------------second idea----------------------------

the second idea is from piecing four of my photos together and add a group of CG birds(particle insteadser) flying by in it

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Now, I like the first idea better, because that has better composition and overall mode.I'll go talk to the professor and my classmates/friends on Tuesday, then decide.