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2 very simple pilot concepts, 1h each. Trying to get down the shapes and light as quick as possible here.

All painted in CS 3.]]> Sun, 11 May 2008 20:18:13 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/624086

Spent 3 days on this matte. Some reference were use from cities.Painted in PS cs 3. I was inspirered by dussos work on starwars episod 3.

I am happy that i could capture the future smog too

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My latest matte, unfortunately the low angle cuts the depth of the image abit with the castle and hill in front. But yet i think the eye follows a nice and simple path from the dead silent village to the sun touched castle early at dawn.

yep the glow is intentional, i wanted it to have a story feeling to it.. ]]> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:03:51 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/618427

4h speedpainting. I was at the office waiting for a client, during that waiting i painted this little concept.

hope you like it.All painted from scratch]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:16:49 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/615878

A painting i have been working on on and off. This is inspirered by Bierstadts amazing paintings.

I am not sure on the hours spent on it but between 15-20h i thinks. Painted in CS 3. Some initial refs from milford sound was used. Hope you like it.]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:27:20 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/596275

I recently watched Cloverfield , really cool movie! and so that inspirerred me to do a "cloverfield" of my own this is not the original monster but was inspirrered by it. So i took some parts that i liked, and redesigned it. I am mainly thinking of its legs.

After that it was just alot of painting of destruction and mayhem on stockholm hehe
I would think storywise that this concept could be connected with another painting i did not too long ago. Concerning the arrival of this monster.


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i wanted to try some humor here , so far it has been dark speedpaintings and mattepaintings.

This was quite fun to paint, and i am quite happy with the horror color palette hehe.

hope you like it, Photoshop cs 3]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:47:41 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/589722

This perticular piece was inspirrered by Dusso´s works. It took about 2 days in the making some hours here and there during the day.

I used a base plate which had different looking clouds , but i liked it so i kept building on it and painting new areas. PS CS3 was used and my usually wacom intuos 2. ]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:12:56 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/585059

about 2h into the night. Its getting harder and harder not to paint. Seriously i feel compelled to open PS and paint everyday....

This image has some mythical theme to it. The girl is a selfwilling sacrifice, offering up her body to the violent sea, Which is the home of an angry god. I am not sure what to name this savage god though. But i did make a symbol for him on the rock.Maybe something like "Orgau". Lots of custombrushes used for the waves and rocks.

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I woke up really early one night and i had this vision in my head. So not to loose it i started sketching 5 am in the morning :/
i didnt quite finish it because i had to take the train to school. So when i came home i finished the piece. In all it took me about 3.5h to paint it.

Thinking back to the vision i would say i nailed close to 75% of what i wanted, hehe then again these things arer extremely hard to measure. But i am contended with parts of the image.

All painted in PS cs 2
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Started as a speedpainting, and ended up in a conceptpiece.About 8h spent on it max.wanted to go for the cinematic feeling.

the usuall setup, PS cs 2 , wacom a5]]> Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:56:05 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/567742

I imagined this as some kind of a establishing shot from a pov of a dwarfmine. Since its a dwarfmine i choose to be discrete with the design on the exterior architecture. I also applied the entrance shape to the sides of the mountain if you can notice Rest of the landscape is a mix of mountains and swamps...

Once again is this is a pretty wide matte at 6188px, seems one can cram in alot of details in that ratio since i like it bigger hehe

Hope you like it

cheers


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My widest matte sofar with a highres at 6000px.This matte would suit good for a camera pan because of it. Dont know yet if i might apply that to it. However i am contanded with the outcome of the painting.Matte painted in PS , referenceplates used, for ground and lava paint

This is kind of how i imaged the evolution of earth from the start.]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:21:39 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/560824

This is a matte that i did a while ago. I kind of felt contended with the lighting so i thought of posting it. The format is abit unusual but i think it enhances the feeling of the ship landing so i kept it this way.Mattes arent suppose to have dynamic objects but i feel this little ship adds more to the story and whole concept of the larger vessel beeing a landing pad.

The image is created in photoshop from a base plate and envolving set extension, skyreplacement, lighting and future design of architecture and ship.

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It has been a long time since i painted a detailed character. I Usually do the rough speedpaintings or mattes so i thought i would give this old habit a shot

scenario: post-apocalyptic future, not to far away, i would say around 2030, and this character is a member of gang of ex cops.The weapon is some kind of a flamethrower,hence the tanks on his back

Tha character is painted in PS where refs were used during the process. The background is painted matte.A wip thread with process shots from sketch to finished image can be seen here:
http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?t=41689

cheers]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:37:41 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/549357

A few weeks ago i was teaching mattepainting and i layed down the base of this matte painting there. The class was a pretty basic take on some of the principals of mattepainting.

It was quite fun to do for an audience. The software I used was Photoshop CS 2 and of course my trusty wacom intuos 2. When i worked on this piece i tried to convey the importance of perspectives, composition, colourbalance, contrast and so on.

After the classes i decided to keep working on the piece,changing and altering the composition to push it further and further. And so a couple of more days with work resulted in this piece.

there are 3 ships in this image, can you spot all 3 ?

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I am busy with various work projects and i sometimes have practice pieces that i do just to keep myself training in this field of work.This mattepainting is that kind of training piece.

I have been working this on and off for a while. The scenery is tokyo 2050, dawn so i added in some futuristic details into it.

The image is created in PS cs 2.]]> Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:34:36 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/533140

A while ago there was an unofficial mattepainting challenge here on CGtalk. The task was to use an original plate, clear it from curtain obstacles then extend the set.

I must admit the challenge was quite fun to do. So i created the matte in Photoshop,and entered after about 30h on it.. The result was quite nice. However i felt that the matte still needed some work on it and so i picked up the work after some months away from it.

And this is the result. There was some minor perspective and light issues that i had to fix and so the process was pretty straight forward.

The mattepainting is a mix of photorefs and digital painting.The usual mattepainting procedure. Hope you like it

Cheers]]> Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:00:11 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/485924

This is a a conceptpainting that well took about 11h to paint in Photoshop.I used a ref for the face, because its partly a selfportrait.I developed some texturebrushes as i went along. Especially for the watersplash, mountains.

I wanted to convey chaos but at the same time beauty .So hope that works out

Here is how the concept looked 5h or so in.

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For this shot i imagined a camera that followed the mech as it ran across the screen. Hence i wanted to put the whole shot in a certain amount of motionblur.

The scenery is postapocalyptic, where lands are raided by some kind of mobile mechs, gang rivals.

The concept painting itself took about 3h to paint.
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This concept/matte was created during a demonstration of speedpainting which later evolved to a fullblown concept/mattepainting. The painting took about 19h to paint. Painted from scratch in PS and refs used for texture.

I have been working like an insane, i think i need some time out. Gonna take a few days rest after this one.

Cheers

here is the base sketch:
http://www.leventep.com/Matte/Refs/Matte_9_step_1.jpg

and here are refs used for texture:
http://www.leventep.com/Matte/Refs/Matte_9_ref_1.jpg
http://www.leventep.com/Matte/Refs/Matte_9_ref_2.jpg

edit:worked som more, removed the ship and highlighted some areas]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:18:06 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/463247

I wanted to paint a beautiful green scenery inspired by the green hills of Ireland. This is the result. Photorefs were used in the making of this mattepainting. Done in Photoshop under 9 hours.

Hope you like it, tried to get the mood really calm and tranquil.

the refs are:
http://www.leventep.com/Matte/Refs/matte_8_ref_1.jpg
http://www.leventep.com/Matte/Refs/matte_8_ref_2.jpg



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Its an abbandoned lab in the dead cold wasteland.Something took place here. No signs of life nor trace.I am always compelled to depict a story in extreme conditions.

well...guess i am an addict. Mattepaintings are fun.Took about 5h to paint. Started in school, finished at home.

refs:
http://www.leventep.com/Matte/Refs/matte_5_ref_1.jpg
http://www.leventep.com/Matte/Refs/matte_5_ref_2.jpg]]> Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:20:21 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/457395

A new fun matte. This time not in the past("a long tima ago") but future. Maybe this is what we will see within 100years.

I started it in school and finished it at home. Approx 4-5h.

the original plate:
http://www.leventep.com/Matte/Refs/Ref_Montreal.jpg]]> Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:42:11 +0000 http://samsonsreaper.cgsociety.org/gallery/456736

This is how i imagine it would of looked like about 80 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth.

This was a fun Matte-project and it lasted for about 4h. Thats the time it took to work on it.I had an initial pic which i built on.Check out the refs.Rest is painted.

the refs:
http://www.leventep.com/Matte/Refs/landscape.jpg
http://www.leventep.com/Matte/Refs/canyon1.jpg


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Had abit of problems with the composition and perspective and well i did give it a try. All sketched and painted in PS. A ref was used for the forrest, rest is hand painted.Hope you like it.

Ref:
http://www.leventep.com/Pics/The_PR_rainforrest.jpg
Step:
http://www.leventep.com/Pics/step.jpg]]> Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:01:27 +0000