What Made him Win CGTantra Matte Painting Contest “Across the Rooftop”

This month's challenge was to make a night time matte painting using day time elements. My first approach to this challenge was to find a suitable daytime plate. I decided to make use of a vacation photo I taken in Oxford, England. Working resolution was set to 5k so that I could resize the final painting and get a more satisfying result. It is always a good idea to work in a higher resolution because sometimes you don't know how much of the image you will have to crop. Read More...