Environmental Concepts - Mixing Matte-painting with 3D

To save time often instead of crating full 3d environments with every tree, hill, mountain textured in the background oten they combine photographic elements into the fray. Other mattepainters use the digital software to composite the photographic elements together rather than use the 3d software to create particular structures or objects.

Often artists create the environment concept in the following way foreground - 3d rendered, background - photomontage / mattepainting. Sometimes elements impossible to achieve wit photomontage in the backgrounds can even be added with 3d software.

Here is a selection of matte paintings by Wayne Haag, he implements a lot of 3d with photomontage. Often foreground buildings, vehicles and objects are created totally with 3d software and the rest with matte-painting techniques.

Leviathan and the art of keith Thompson

Leviathan takes place in an alternative history in world war 1, where steam punk weapons, vehicles and characters are common place. Especially useful research in relation to the collaborative project where we aim to implement a steam punk theme with a possibly unique take on it.

Link to Keith Thompsons website

Trailer for Leviathan Book Release:

Possible Ideas for Projects

Concept Art
Character/vehicular concepts - Photoshop/Corel
Environment Concepts - Mattepaintings/3d render
Scenario Concept illustrations - Photoshop/Corel/3d Render

~ Concept art for a fictional video game of a steam punk art style

3d rendered Environment
~ Different context; non video game related, possibly competition brief.

Collaborative Project

Diary onboard a steam punk airship

Random Concepts

Here is a selection of seemingly random but very interesting conceptual illustrations. I’ve collected various galleon airship illustrations because this year I have been aiming to design and illustrate one myself for reasons unknown to me.

Steam Punk