Establishing Shot Render Test

Here is the final matte projection of the first Establishing shot. I intend to add some more moving cloud elements and some interactive cloud shadows on the foreground mountain. However, with time being short, I may not be able to make all those changes, so I rendered this shot off at this stage that i would feel relatively happy leaving the shot in its current state in the final trailer:

ESTABLISHING SHOT RENDER TEST

Establishing Shot Matte Painting

Here is the final Matte Painting for the shot. I used many different photo references along with a large amount of hand painting to produce the final look here. Some things such as the cloud shadows and volumetric light effects will have to be turned off again before doing the projection of this shot as i ultimately would like moving cloud shadows in the final shot

A few elements have changed as I felt that they would work better in the final shot done differently:

Extension of Establishing shot sketch

I decided on this shot to extend and break down the original sketch, and do a camera projection in Maya to rough out the camera move that I intend this shot to use. Here is the extended sketch, and the 3d camera projection mapping test that i produced using the sketch:

Sketch:

Projection Mapping Test:

PROJECTION TEST

This quick test should help me to work out any problems that i may encounter when doing the final 2.5D matte painting, and therefore enables me to prepare for them, or eliminate them before they can occur.

Will update soon with the Matte Painting

New concept for opening shot

As a small break from my work on the previous matte painting, i decided to paint up a quick sketch just for fun. As tends to be the way with these things, i ended up liking the sketch, which is based on reference from Machu Picchu, and now intend to use something like this as the opening establishing shot of my trailer, rather than the idea i had sketched out before. This is quite different to how i had originally envisioned the shot, but i feel that it will work better as an overall shot than the previous sketch i produced (which i was never completely satisfied with).

So here is the new sketch for that shot, and a first look at the new direction i will be going with this shot: