Challenge #4 FINAL ENTRIES

[Suirebit-3DT]

Please post only your final images here. For discussion and details please go here: http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=55913

When posting your final image please upload it on an external server (imageshack.us preferably) and use the image tag.

Please include the following in your post:


Your name
Short description of the image
Technical details (how long it took, what software did you use etc.)
(OPTIONAL) A link to your WIP thread if you created any


Don't forget that the minimum accepted width/height is of 1024!

Looking forward to see your artworks :)

[Dan-3DT]

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8882/summertowinterfinalqm8.jpg

Daniel Holland
Winterized :)
About 3 hours to complete. All done in photoshop CS2 with standard tools.

[divi]

http://www.ascguild.de/winter_thumb.jpg (http://www.ascguild.de/winter2.jpg)
(click for larger version)

Sebastian Schröder
Winter version of the plate with a more fantasy-like look
Took me about 6 hours since it's the first picture I did in that manner, all in Photoshop CS2

[samsonsreaper]

levente peterffy
hours:4 ish
done in PS cs 3
http://leventep.com/Matte/Matte_P/SWMatte.jpg

[RQuack]

Ryan Quackenbush
Maybe 10 or so hours.
PSCS3.

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/8987/concept2ar4.jpg

[lilguy]

Lilguy-summertowinter
Made in photoshop 6 hours
wip link http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=56138

http://usera.imagecave.com/lilguyone/summerwinteressaifinal1.jpg

[yapagraph]

Miroslav Pavlovic
Working about 10 hours in PS, 2 hours go for bird's,
http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=55974

[hdeamonic]

Daniel Mohoric
ps cs2
10 hours
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs27/f/2008/041/2/d/summer_winter_by_HeavenlyDeamonic.jpg

[iruo]

this is awesome my friend thinks its real. now is it,even i myself am not sure anymore

[Holy Mountain]

Duncan Dinsdale
Mountain Retreat
Photoshop CS3 / Vue 6
4 Evenings

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8467/mattepaintingchallenge1ci4.jpg

[Cierseruwal]

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n120/cierseruwal/WinterScene.jpg
Christopher Ang
Just a winter version for the given image.
Photoshop CS3
It took me about 8 to 9 hours.

[Ron-Low]

my humble contribution. :shy:
Ron Low
Dark Winter
Photoshop CS, 7 hrs or so.

http://www.ron-3d.com/gallery/matte/winter_final_1024.jpg

[Great Sky]

Adrian Borja
Winter mode of the given scene, with a moderate snowfall
About 10 hrs in total, used with Photoshop CS, and a mouse
havent expanded the canvas, just the given one

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/29/finalzfo6wl6.jpg

[ReadyGo!]

Lisa Sage
A winter version of the starting image.
7-10 hours for the image and another 40 hours agonizing over everything:)
I used photoshop CS2 and expanded the canvas to the left.
I never set out to entirely replace the sky but I start painting the hills and just kept going.
This is my first matte painting challenge and my second matte, any shared tips or info. would be fantastic!



http://sagefamilystudios.com/battle/Summer2Winter-Final.jpg

[totalik]

Michal Bouchner
Snow City Hall
Photoshop, 6 evenings (I know it's long but this is my second Mattepainting :))

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6286/finalresizesb0.jpg

Full resolution:
http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=finalue2.jpg

[sat_mha13]

Satendra Mhatre
Winter version of the image with a more elements.
It took me about 12 hours bcoz it's first time I made it.All works done in Photoshop CS2.
Thank u all n best of luck u all

Full res link
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7919/mattepaintingchallengefgk8.th.jpg (http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mattepaintingchallengefgk8.jpg)

[nesanime]

well, here is mine...
ps cs3...around 15 h..

good luck to all!!

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2234/sum2winnesanimecf1.jpg (http://imageshack.us?s=1)

[Peyop]

Whoops late ...
So it's mine :
Pierre Fabre
Around 8 hours
It was very very interesting to work on this project. I've learn a lot and it's the essential :)
Photoshop CS3 and Wacom graphic tablet

http://www.gkaster.com/forums/sw.jpg

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Pey

[Suirebit-3DT]

Thank you for you entries! Please alow us one week to judge them!

See you at the next challenge :)

[Suirebit-3DT]

This was again a great challenge full of many good entries....I'm really glad to see so many people participating :) Congrats to everyone!

Important (I felt the need to edit and say this from the begining because a lot of people said they didn't know there are prizes....)

FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW WHAT ARE THE PRIZES, HERE IS A THREAD EXPLAINING THEM: http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=53531
Winners please contact Chris chrisp@3dtotal.com to claim your prizes.

Here are the results:

#1, winner of Challenge #4 is samsonreaper, congratulations!

#2 second place goes to : RQuack

#3 third place goes to nesanime

Here is a comment from our guest judge, Alex Popescu:

Levente's matte was clearly the winner. The best thing about the matte is
the complete photorealism. It is so believable , that no one would ever
question this being real. I love the moody and heavy atmosphere that makes you think about a cold winter day.

One of the other great additions are the lovely foreground and the city/village
that the main building was integrated in. Again Levy did everything
to make this place a believable one, as close as possible to reality.

My only criticism would be that the building that almost filled the original
plate is now very small. We wold have loved to see all the details of the
main building interact with the winter elements.

Great job Levy , i love the matte.







Ryan's matte impresses on creating a very mysterious setting for the building. Again we have a blueish desaturated look, depicting a gloomy winter day. Although
there are some scale issues, I like the fact the trees and the mountains are a little overwhelming , creating this closed, dark place with a lot of personality.
I like the foreground elements, that help the matte by giving it dept, but the middle ground is bit flat.
Another thing thats pops out , being a little out of place is the tree on the right, that should be replaced or taken out.

Overall a nice matte with a very good mood that would be great with a little more work.



Nesanime did a great job on choosing an interesting
color palette. That is the main thing that made it stand out.You did
a good job on creating the winter scene . The snow on the roof looks a
bit too painterly, but the overall feel is ok.

The few things that should be mentioned are the trees, the lack
of dept and the clear separation between the foreground and the middle ground.

The look of the groups of trees is not that great, and it could have been improved by giving it a little more uniformity.
In terms of dept , the first thing to notice is the lack of another layer in the background, with trees distant buildings or maybe even far mountains.
In a winter scene , the background layers are very important for creating the
atmosphere. I would have also loved a bigger variation between the black levels from the foreground and the background layers, also very important on creating the impression of dept.
The last thing I want to mention is that it would have been great to see a place where you can cross from the foreground "hill" on the frozen river.
There is a certain visual path starting on the bottom center of the image but it stops when reaching the river. You could have given it a little more continuity.

Congrats on a job well done.




Winners please contact Chris chrisp@3dtotal.com to claim your prizes.

[eyecon]

Congratulations everyone! Wonderful wokr and amazing entries!

[totalik]

Congratulations to all !!! :)

[nesanime]

Congratulations to all the people that win and that participate!!
Really happy about the prize but even more happy about the comments!!
It's difficult sometimes to get constructive comments like those ones, thanks a lot!
I'm already waiting for the next challenge to see more amazing work
keep up! :)

[Ron-Low]

congratulations to the winners! very nice works indeed! :)

[ReadyGo!]

Congratulations to the winners, fantastic work!!!

I really love that Alex took the time to provide so much detail in his critique, thank you!! I really hope to put it all to good use.

[RQuack]

Thanks so much! Congrats to Levi, nice work! Big thanks to Alex who gave great feedback to which I'm already fixing. Thanks again!

[Holy Mountain]

Hello folks! Great work from everyone here and taking part in this challenge for the first time was a really good experience. Congratulations to the winners and I'm looking forward to the next one!

[Aniboomer]

wow, these are all AMAZING!!!

[everlite]

congradulations Levi, well deserved :)

- Dave

[samsonsreaper]

wow thanks alot guys! congrats to all of you!

[Banaan]

amazing, i really liked peyop's ;>

[spetsk]

Hi! Well the challenge has past long time, but I'll post anyway, that I have:
http://hello.freyja.pri.ee/images/stories/spetsk/fotomanip/summer_to_winter_2_manipulatsioon.jpg

[Secretpixelmedi]

hey that looks really cool so far^^

[swihartc]

Good job everyone. Old thread, but first time I saw the work here. I liked viewing all these entries, gratz to the winners and even bigger gratz to those that learned new stuff.

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