2012
Lynda.com
David Mattingly
1h48m
English
In this course, well-known author, teacher, and illustrator David Mattingly demonstrates his production-proven matte painting techniques and shows how to turn a summer daytime scene into a wintry nightscape using Photoshop and After Effects. David shows how to take a plate, or a still shot from a film, and alter key elements to change the season and time of day. Using advance digital matte painting methods, David removes all of the greenery from the mountains, fields, and trees, and covers them with snow. Then he replaces the sky, and adds realistic touches such as chimney smoke, icicles, and night-lit windows. In the final chapters, you'll discover how to create an animated scene that cross-dissolves between the two versions.

Topics include:
- Making precise selections using the Color Range command
- Controlling reference material through layer masks
- Creating custom brushes
- Painting snow, icicles, and trees
- Painting through a high-contrast matte
- Replacing the sky in an image
- Animating smoke and falling snow
- Reformatting and rendering a scene in After Effects

Welcome 3m 36s
Introduction 1m 20s
What you should know before watching this course 54s
Using the exercise files 1m 22s
1. Revising the Plate 25m 51s
Making selections using the Color Range command 3m 34s
Integrating an outside reference using layer masks 4m 41s
Extracting the foothills 5m 58s
Extracting the mountains 8m 10s
Color correcting the mountains 3m 28s
2. Painting Over the Plate 38m 1s
Creating a custom brush 2m 58s
Adding snow to the background trees 5m 45s
Adding form to the foothills 3m 31s
Painting through a high-contrast matte 2m 42s
Adding snow to the rooftops 2m 58s
Removing hard shadows 3m 50s
Painting icicles with a custom brush 2m 2s
Covering greenery with snow 5m 7s
Painting the background trees 4m 49s
Adding snow to horizontal surfaces 4m 19s
3. Replacing the Sky 8m 12s
Preparing the sky for cloud replacement 2m 57s
Extracting clouds 5m 15s
4. Creating a Dusk Version of the Scene 9m 55s
Adding a blue Multiply layer 2m 56s
Lighting windows 3m 28s
Adding an orange glow 3m 31s
5. Animating Your Scene in After Effects 23m 6s
Preparing the file for After Effects 4m 40s
Animating the scene 2m 35s
Adding snow using CC Snow 4m 57s
Lighting the windows sequentially 2m 9s
Animating smoke using displacement 5m 34s
Reformatting and rendering the scene 3m 11s

http://www.lynda.com/tutorials/Digital-Matte-Painting-Changing-a-Scene-From-Summer-to-Winter/104216-2.html

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