Movie Mashup - The Misty Rider - Boco

[Boco]

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Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the American Southwest and South with the aim of achieving freedom.

The Mist, is a 2007 American horror film based on the 1980 novella of the same name by Stephen King. The plot revolves around members of the small town of Bridgton, Maine who conceal themselves in a local supermarket when a violent thunderstorm cuts off the power. While they struggle to survive an unnatural mist which envelops the town and conceals vicious, supernatural monsters, extreme tensions rise amongst the survivors.

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[VolpinPavel]

Easy Rider is a great movie.good luck

[Cordero]

welcome to the forums!
Looking forward on what you have there ;)

[Boco]

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I thought about a concept for a bit and came up with a shot involving both Easy Rider and the Mist. First off, you should keep in mind that Easy Rider and the Mist have great storylines (not to mention epic endings), and I'm not trying to compete with that. In other words, I used stuff from both movies, but I'm not trying to write an alternative ending to Easy Rider (or to the Mist for that matter).

That said, I wanted to give the Mist sort of a double-layered task. It leads the bikers to what they're looking for: a brief moment of freedom, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out how it all turns out.

All comments are of course welcome!

[chunkymunky]

Beautiful sketch, lots of action and suspense in there. Really sweet concept good luck with the progression of this :)

[Boco]

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I chose a color scheme that resembles the one used in Easy Rider. As you can see I predefined the colors of the most important parts (like metal and skin) so I can always fall back on them. It helps to put up some guidelines for yourself, yet, you should never turn your guidelines into boundaries.

Note: It's also a good idea to predefine your black. Black is never really 'black', nor is white ever really 'white', so it helps to lock your darkest color and not go beyond that point. Again, you shouldn't see this as a boundary. The real boundary is #000000 :)

[chunkymunky]

You've got such a beautiful painting style, lovely little details and such a strong idea of what you want to do and your ability to portray it too is excellent. Loving what you've created so far, looking forward to each and every update if this is the standard set so early on :)

[Boco]

Thx for the comments! I could really use some outside perspective on this one!

Oh, and maybe admins could change the title of my topic to a more conventional one?

[Cordero]

Really great style you have there. I like the composition! maybe a bit too high at the moment, but definitely great :D

i haven't seen those movies, so i can't really comment on the mix..
looking forward on your updates!

[Boco]

You should :)

Thanks for the composition tip, I'll look into it!

[Boco]

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I've painted the trees in the background first, mainly because that's the boring part and I wanted to get that out of the way. I made a custom brush with scattering to do it. Feel free to use it yourself, if you want.

[Tarik2d]

Looking good

[Puckducker]

Sweet and timely, it's looking great so far. I think the atmosphere of "the mist" is a little lost, it kinda looks just as much like they are jumping through a low hanging cloud or something. Perhaps swapping out some of the colour pallet into something more neutral and grey would help bring some of that feeling back.

Really great concept though, looking forward to seeing the final product.

[Boco]

Thanks for the comments! They definitely keep me motivated.

@ Puckducker: I agree, it looks too cloudy, whereas it should resemble smoke / fog. I'll look into some reference, thanks for the tip!

[Edwiersma]

Looking forward to more! nice work.

[Boco]

Looking forward to more too :) Damn it's hard to find time these days...

[chunkymunky]

Loving the colour palette used so far and sweet little detailing:)

[Boco]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kATrpZ5d5Js/TCyHUwRyooI/AAAAAAAAARU/qxFlzuqH2nA/s1600/Mist+%28small%29.jpg

It took me a while but I got around to working on Misty Rider again. First off I made some changes to the Mist itself because - as noticed by Puckducker - it looked too much like clouds in stead of fog. I also added some textures to the rocks, and though they seem very photographic at the moment, I'm convinced they'll turn out great. Last but not least I added some details (like the birds) and I re-painted the sky, because I thought it was too dull in previous steps.

Off course I'm still very interested in hearing your opinions...

[eicronie]

cool atmosphere, like old postcard )
add a details like branches from forest - bike ride in fog and there are a lot of staff on his way (like hedgehog ))

[wil_himura]

I must take notes of that imprevisive background landscape for my work :P
Well done, I'd have gone for another image proportion tho.
Having more height than width gives more free fall feeling but having more width could let you focus in the action which are the two motorbikes jumping and you could show a bit more of the closest bike getting out of the fog.

I couldn't have done it better tho, so keep on with this great pic!

[Boco]

Thanks for the comments!

@wil_himura: Maybe you're right, but on the other hand, I wanted to focus on the height of the cliff more than on the bikes themselves. I'll give it a try anyway though, it's super-high-res so that won't be a problem :)

[Boco]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kATrpZ5d5Js/TC8MyKLwtQI/AAAAAAAAARk/mA-bBqiewIs/s1600/Comp+%28small%29.jpg

After a great tip from wil_himura - who noted that I should try to work horizontal, to focus more on the action of the bikers - I reconsidered the composition. I threw the pieces around in both directions, but eventually I felt that it wasn't necessarily the direction that was the problem, but the size of the bikers. I wanted to focus on the surroundings and the size of the cliff more than on the action of the bikers themselves, but for that to work, the bikers were to big. I resized them a bit and I feel that helps the scene a lot. Both bikers now seem more insignificant in regard to nature, which I feel strokes better with the subject of both movies.

Thanks a lot to anyone who has commented already. It helps me put things in perspective, so please do go on :)

[Cordero]

Nice work Boco! The environment is so cool :D
I had some trouble understanding that there are two bikes, because the second one is covered in mist/fog mostly, and i didn't see that its a bike.
But it may be just me, i have some problem understanding things :D:D

[Boco]

You're right, I didn't really work on the bikes yet, but I'll try to make the second one pop out more. Thanks for the tip!

[Boco]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kATrpZ5d5Js/TDuEfrH3MVI/AAAAAAAAASE/stLQldTPWHg/s1600/Highlights+%28small%29.jpg

Worked some on the highlights/shadows and the second biker. Kudos to Cordero for the tip!
I'm almost done now.

[eicronie]

if you finished it, this would be my wallpaper )

[chichiri]

Really nice work, it will be an awesome entry.

[Boco]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kATrpZ5d5Js/TDzoG68KDDI/AAAAAAAAASk/6KducQWVkLw/s1600/Misty+Rider.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kATrpZ5d5Js/TDzkhHuZv1I/AAAAAAAAASM/op3jdXCoiXc/s1600/Misty+Rider+-+WIP.jpg

Done and done! It took me over 30 hours to make this, but it was worth it. Included is a WIP-sheet on which you have an overview of the color scheme, the custom brushes I created to build this, and a histogram.

I feel depleted now.

[Cordero]

Hey! Grats on the finish, i really like your final image!

Can you explain what does the histogram means on the construction sheet? Its what comes up when you hit levels in photoshop?

And how can someone read a histogram like this? What does your histogram means?
no pure colors, since the graph is flat at the beginning and the end?

[Boco]

A histogram tells a lot about the lightning in a scene.

It shows you exactly how much of the picture is intense dark (left), and how much is intense bright (right). A good histogram should be balanced, so it shouldn't lean too much to the left or to the right. It should start low, then go up and at the end back down. Of course that doesn't mean you can't have a dark or light-toned image, but pure black or pure white aren't very natural and the histogram helps you see those mistakes.

Also, if your histogram shows a lot of 'missing' lines, it means your lightning isn't very fluent.

Thanks a lot for the comments btw! Wouldn't have done it without those!

[Cordero]

I see!
Can you explain me, how i could find out a histogram of a random jpg file in photoshop?
Is it the adjustment/levels option?

I hope you will enter more of these competitions, since i found your images entertaining, and you say a lot of useful stuff with your posts!

[eicronie]

You can find histogram pressing ctrl+L(image-adjustments-levels).
also under tab window you can see panel histogram.
try to google "Solving Color and White Balance Problems: Using Levels"

[Cordero]

Thanks eicronie!

[hulahuga]

Greant final Boco :).

Cliffs and background came out great and the clean color palette worked a treat! Oh and the riders look great as well ;), they were a bit flat at parts though if you should mark on anything...

[doramide7]

Thx for the comments! I could really use some outside perspective on this one!

Oh, and maybe admins could change the title of my topic to a more conventional one?

Really great style you have there. I like the composition! maybe a bit too high at the moment, but definitely great

i haven't seen those movies, so i can't really comment on the mix..
looking forward on your updates!


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[nonica]

Fine exposure to the movies. The Mist was first published as the first and longest story of the 1980 horror anthology Dark Forces.