elessar's CGPortoflio Gallery

The Plane of Saqqara

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:58:08 +0000

I did this matte painting for an italian documentary about Ancient Egypt. The episode on which the picture was used was about Saqqara and the artwork had to represent wath was the Djoser Pyramid like before the present day. The buildings are done in Maya and Renderman, all the rest in Photoshop with hand-painting.

Matte painting: Clamps of steel

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:29:00 +0000

This matte was made for the Pluginz.com competition... andit won it too!
It's made entirely with Photoshop CS2 and a Wacom tablet. The process consisted mainly in chosing a nice color pallette, hand-painting the ancient buildings and the other elements over the existing picture and creating a proper atmosphere for the scene through the lighting. Photo integration helped to achieve realism.

The Devil's Spine

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:54:15 +0000

The inspiration for thismatte painting comes from David Friedrich paintings. I tried to resemble the same gothic moods of his art and, at the same time, to play a little bit with the camera angle and the perspective.
I started from a concept sketch and then refined t to achieve a realistic feel, even integrating photos.

Original resolution: 4000x2000
Time to complete: 2 weeks

Farewell To Fangorn

Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:01:21 +0000

This picture was born to prove myself on matte painting so the original idea was to paint just a matte without a specific subject.
Then I got the idea of this scene from Lord of the Rings and panted the whole picure trying to create the same atmosphere of the book.
The story behind the picture is about the Entwives (the character at the left) leaving the Ents in their woods. They will go to the west preferring agricolture to wild life in the forest.
- Totally painted in Photoshop with a Wacom Graphire 3
-Original resolution: 4000x2000
- Painted in 3 weeks, spare time.
i really hope you like it, I've spent a lot of time on details
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Castle On The Shore

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:33:11 +0000

This is a matte painting I've worked on for a week to practice a little bit with lights in large environments. I've used photos for the trail on the right, everything else is painted with a wacom tablet.
I really hope you like it
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Head Of A Balrog

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:56:05 +0000

HIRES PICTURE
The project has been a test for my modelling skills. The base mesh was done in Modo and Maya and then, when I was satisfied enough, sculpted with Zbrush subdividing it until 6 million polys.
The rendering is done in Renderman (prman) using the base mesh and the displacement map exported with Zbrush. The multilayered shader is written from scratch.