Part 2 of 6
Sunshine to snow
Created In: Photoshop
Introduction Greetings, and welcome to the second part of our matte painting tutorial series!
We will continue with another common transformation: season change. Specifically, this month, we’ll be turning our base image into a winter scene. This time you will see that things are getting a little bit more challenging! While the process itself is not hard, the difficult part is in finding the right shapes, shades and places for the now, as well as finding a cool (literally) yet still realistic colour palette.
From Fig01 you can see the ‘before’ and ‘after’ results of what we’re going to do!
What are we after? So this time, we are after a winter scene. We have again the same raw photo which, as you can see, was taken most likely during
information of what’s behind them and we can’t
the summer, and we want to see how it will
recreate that information from other parts of the
look 6 months later... The problem with this
image (remember we are not allowed to change
photo is that it’s full of green trees that will lose
architecture, so no clone stamp, okay?!). This
their leaves in winter; however, we have no
case is perfect tutorial material, because we will do more than just the average summer to winter; we will see how to get a little creative, even if limited by certain restrictions!
So let’s see what we are supposed to do. Let’s say we have two major restrictions: 1 We must not make major alterations to the castle architecture; 2 We should keep the size and placement of all the major elements (such as the river, position of the trees, etc.)
So with all this in mind, I’ll start by planning the steps (as I showed you last month):
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