2BIG3k - A New Beginning

[2BIG3k]

Hi,

I'm new to this forum and this is my first participation in a matte challenge.


My intention is to depict a world, where no human has survived. No people being left nature can thrive without constraints and thereby slowly repossesses every place that humans claimed earlier - the world is becoming healthy.

I'm planning to add more plants and animals like ants and stuff.

Any comments are welcome. :)

[penguins]

Hello and welcome to the forums.
Really nice start. I love the angle of your composition and perspective. And the 'smoothness' of the entire thing is amazing.
Keep up the awesome work.

[atulkatdare]

nice painting, nice start...

[raulfabi]

Hi,

Welcome and nice ideea and starting sketch.
Carefull not to add too much animals, logically if humans are extinct other mamals should be too.:)

Cheers

[eyecon]

looks awesome man! Keep going!

[2BIG3k]

Thank you guys for the feedback.

I quickly made a few compositional changes. Next I'll do some 3d work for the foreground.

[DannyCG]

Nice touch with the antena. Good luck.

[yaRa]

A rise of a new Paradise gardens? ;)

[2BIG3k]

a world without humans is in a sense truly a kind of paradise ;)

I stitched together some rough not-antialiased renders and did some rough overpainting and color corrections to set the mood. The 3d renderings for mid- and backround will be quite simple and will require a great deal of paint work.... looking forward for that. :)

[2BIG3k]

3D work for the foreground is now finished. First picture shows the rendered image that I created using Cinema 4D.

Second picture shows my current PS composition with the mid- and background still being a rough rendering.

A lot of tweaking and overpainting will follow.

Cheers,

Marc

[atulkatdare]

its looking good, wish to see your next update soon..

[Claw]

nice render man! i think you could make it a little bit brighter (just a little) in your painting so we can see more of the cool details. how did you do the plants in c4d they look very good. also it might be cool to have some old furniture in there like a desk with a broken computer, just an idea. good work!

[2BIG3k]

Thanks guys :)

I think I will brighten up the left side of the foreground but keep the right side quite dark, since i like the contrast of the sillouhette against the bright sky there. The for the ivy i used a combination of mograph and ivygenerator, and for the fern I mapped a manipulated texture on displaced and bent planes.

Cheers,

Marc

[yaRa]

You can make some patches of light on 1 plan, than you should not do your work too bright )))
It is like principle of lace )))

[2BIG3k]

@yara... what's the principle of lace? :shy: google doesn't tell me anything usefull ^^

next update: ...still a lot to do

[Jaxko]

fantastic, I really like this. I love the little plants with sub surface scattering(?) It makes it look so dynamic and real.

[2BIG3k]

Thanks for your comment. Didn't use SSS, but you get kind of the same effect by playing with saturation and hue of the backlit parts.

Cheers

[rofiqalfata]

nice lighting, I like it. but I think the foreground is a bit too much, it occupies most area of the scene, a little bit distracting?

[2BIG3k]

Thanks. You are right, the foreground covers a lot of space, but I like how it supports the more distant scenery. Maybe I'll crop the whole image a little in the and so that some of the bottom gets lost and it becomes wider.

Update:

http://2big3k.piranho.de/Bilder/BecomingHealthyMain_30wip.jpg

[raulfabi]

Hi,
Actually BIG youre right.
If the image would be cropped at the middle of the plant(the one to the right), I thing it would look much better, and give the feeling of a wide view.

Chees.:wave:

[yaRa]

@yara... what's the principle of lace? :shy: google doesn't tell me anything usefull ^^

next update: ...still a lot to do

lace or cellular construction or any other associations ))))

light should fall like this
http://stat4.comby.ru/lr/6077abfd4a654b399557963c5f341ba5

[2BIG3k]

Does anybody know when the MP Final Entry thread will be opened?

Anyways, here is my final image:
(btw I observed huge differences as for the brightness of my image on several monitors. Especially on iMac it looks too dark, on my pc it looks brighter, although actually it should be vice versa because of the gamma differences. So im afraid that my monitor is calibrated totally wrong and it looks much too dark on other PCs, maybe you can tell me. ;) )

WIP sheet (http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1010/becominghealthywipsheet.jpg)

FINAL IMAGE
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8609/becominghealthyfinalsma.jpg

[Akim]

thats really cool!
I don't even want criticize this work in something!

[rofiqalfata]

wow, nice matte... about the bright and dark things..., it's probably the monitor's gamma setting...?

[2BIG3k]

I tried to change them, but I can't find any settings for that, just the acer (e)mpowering technology settings, which rather screw all the colors in order to save energy. x) But I guess I'll just compare it with other pc monitors in the near future.

Thank you for the comments folks. :)

Marc