Coming Home

Finally, I have completed my first ever matte painting!!! After many attemps, I have actually had the patience to finish one.

For this I used lots of curves adjustments, layers adjustments, and custom brushes. The sky was also added from another picture. This was inspired by one of Alp Altiner‘s tutorials in ‘d’artiste Matte Painting’ book by Ballistic publishing. You can download the .PSD file here: http://code.google.com/p/harry-northover-code-store/ .

Here it is:

Now I know this is by far not one of the best, but I learnt a lot about the process etc while making this, and that is the most important thing for me.

Harry.