{"id":40,"date":"2013-09-26T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T13:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/?p=40"},"modified":"2013-09-26T13:12:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T13:12:11","slug":"matte-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Matte Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’ve started doing some\u00a0matte\u00a0painting tests to develop a look and feel for the film. At the moment I’m focusing on The Red String section , trying to\u00a0create\u00a0a distinct atmosphere for Stina’s trip down into to the underworld.\u00a0I want it\u00a0to evoke the old 50s Technicolor film look, particularly with Jules Verne \u00a0“journey to the\u00a0centre\u00a0of the earth” in mind: massive in scale but with a painterly and surreal quality to it.<\/p>\n

I’ve been testing out projecting matte paintings onto 3d geometry in 3dsMax, then moving the camera around to see how much movement and parallax i can get\u00a0away with\u00a0before the illusion is broken. The idea is to keep control of\u00a0the\u00a0backgrounds by painting them and only\u00a0having\u00a0to use 3d CG to light the characters and specific\u00a0elements\u00a0like water. I’ve posted a vid on the main page if you want to see the results. It\u00a0seems\u00a0to be working pretty well i think, the main problem seems to be that the images need to be massively detailed to stand up to zooming in. I’m planning to do\u00a0the\u00a0film at 1080p HD resolution so my paintings will need to be a least twice that detail i think.<\/p>\n

I should also mention the\u00a0paintings\u00a0are\u00a0heavily\u00a0influenced by (and maybe a little borrowed in places from a painting I saw as a child by John Martin\u00a0(19 July 1789 \u2013 17 February, 1854) who was an important and influential\u00a0English\u00a0Romantic painter\u00a0of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n

\"Sadak<\/a>

Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion by John Martin<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’ve started doing some\u00a0matte\u00a0painting tests to develop a look and feel for the film. At the moment I’m focusing on The Red String section , trying to\u00a0create\u00a0a distinct atmosphere for Stina’s trip down into to the underworld.\u00a0I want it\u00a0to evoke the old 50s Technicolor film look, particularly with Jules Verne \u00a0“journey to the\u00a0centre\u00a0of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KdKv-E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}