Supervising DMP / Environments and VFX Art Direction / Visual Development @ Mr.X/MPC
Clips of our sequences as well as screenshots below...
Supervising Matte Painting / Environments / VFX Art Direction @ MPC
VFX breakdown on some of our shots & a lot of shots we worked on featured in the trailers here… screenshots below.
Senior Matte Painter & Concept Artist @ Mr.X / MPC
15k wide Matte Painting / Environments & Conceps of establisher shots I did for Vikings Valhalla Season 2
Design / VFX Art Direction & Matte Paintings of Environments as well as FX Designs for the The Witcher - Netflix. Some of which are featured in this making of from MPC…
Lead Matte Painter & Concept Artist @ MR.X / MPC
Provided FX designs (prop effects, vehicle effects, opening shot of cloud entry and more), Environment Designs and Matte Paintings..
Lead Matte Painter & Concept Artist @ Mr.X (MPC)
This film has a lot of great time period Matte Paintings of how old New York City was in the 70’s. Featured in this shot is the famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel and historically accurate buildings of that time. (Beyond the corner street until the horizon is all Matte Painting and before that is CG with Matte Painting paint overs.
Below that is a few street shots of extensions and cg buildings more than %50 of the image are Matte Paintings.
Concept Artist & Lead Matte Painter @ Mr.X (MPC)
Created quite a few concepts to direct the vfx for this show. I also lead the Matte Painting efforts on a few environments too, some of which are featured in this trailer.
more to come….
Matte Painting Supervisor & VFX Art Director @ MPC
A few sequences and shots that I helped visually develop at the beginning while on this show before I got switched over to ATLAS for Netflix.
While at Mr.X - Visual Development / Concept Designs for some of the props/assets on this film and the fx look and animation of them. Unfortunately like most images I’ve created I don’t have access to show them :( only this making of video that features some of them.
See more of our work done on this film here:
https://www.mpcfilm.com/en/filmography/the-harder-they-fall/
Lead Matte Painter / Environments while @ MPC
First video is a short clip of the environment my team was tasked to. A full set replacement and match & extended (top half extension as the bottom half was a set that was also replaced).
The last video is the trailer.
Concept Art & Visual Development done for Amazon Studios.
Created a lot of panoramic images some at over 20k / 360 VR spherical degree coverage of clouds and environments at different altitudes from 2km seeing London below to 20k close to space with different lighting scenarios. Images were used to Art Direct the VFX of the sequences that spanned different altitudes as the balloon progressed into the stratosphere.
These images are from the final result of the film. Unfortunately like most of my concept artwork it won’t see the light of day.. If ever I get a hold of them.. I’ll post them but these are close to the direction.
3D Environments & Matte Painting Supervisor, Concept Artist & VFX Art Director while @ MPC.
Creative and Technical supervision.. from initial concepts all the way to modelling, texturing, lookdev, layout, lighting, matte painting to comp.
Images created as a huge team effort as always.
Excuse the crazy saturation grades… client went overboard on it. :( I tried to reduce it some on these images.
Client: Double Negative | Alcon Entertainment | Columbia Pictures | Scott Free Productions
Role: Senior Matte Painter / Environment Artist
Tools: (Photoshop, Clarisse, Maya, Nuke)
Breakdown / Description:
Plate modifications in Photoshop - L.A. street removal and cleanup re-projected onto geometry created in Maya comped in Nuke then merged with lighting renders of CG assets which were rendered in Clarisse - (the high rises in the BG). CG assets created by assets dept.
Client: Double Negative | Warner Bros.
Role: Senior Matte Painter & Environment Artist
Tools: (Photoshop, Maya, Nuke)
Breakdown / Description:
Training ground modifications and replacements. Greenery (bushes, trees props), horse track and surroundings within the ground area. Some mountains in the BG on some shots.
Maya setup & projected/finaled in Nuke.
Client: Double Negative | Paramount Pictures
Role: Senior Matte Painter & Environment Artist
Tools: Photoshop, Maya, Nuke
Description / Breakdown:
The premise of the film is this alien phenomenon was creating natural abstractions. As such my responsibilities was to add and modify the existing environments adding more vegetation/growth. More trees, more bushes, & general overgrowth. Some of the shots required adding buildings/houses where with greenery & overgrowth.
Painted in Photoshop projected/composited in Nuke.
Client: Image Engine | Marvel Studios | Disney Pictures
Role: Senior Matte Painter, Environment Artist & Concept Artist
Tools: (Photoshop, Maya, Nuke)
Description / Breakdown:
Created set extension / cliff environment featured in several shots. Helped to visually developed the look as well (style, size and lighting) making it work with the plate photography.
Maya, Photoshop & projected in Nuke.
Client: Industrial Light & Magic | Legendary Entertainment
Role: Senior: Generalist / Environment Artist / Matte Painter
Tools: (Photoshop, 3DSMax, Vray, Nuke)
Description / Breakdown:
-Birds eye view high shot w/ creatures charging: full matte painting except the wall asset. Photoshop, 3DSmax then projected onto geo within Nuke.
-Great Wall medium high to close up shots: Responsible for sides of the CG wall & ground surroundings. Rendered in Vray/3DSmax, matte painted in Photoshop and projected in Nuke.
-Ballon Flight: Mid ground small buildings to BG mountains - rendered in 3DSmax/Vray, Matte Paintings of hills, mountains and skies.. projected in Nuke.
-Ground acrobatic battle: Was responsible for the ground areas - full matte painting/replacement with added props scattered throughout (except statues & buildings which was handled by other artists already in progress prior to joining the team). 3DSmax/Vray, Photoshop and projected in Nuke.
Client: Double Negative | Waypoint Entertainment
Role: Senior Matte Painter & Environment Artist
Tools: (Photoshop, Maya, USGS elevation & satellite data for assets, Nuke)
Description / Breakdown:
Matte Paintings of mountain ranges, mid to bg hills & skies in Photoshop and projected in Nuke on basic geo & cards.
Some sunrise shots were graded that were originally shot in daylight.
Used elevation maps from USGS of a particular mountain range to create the geo and texture to be able to re-light the asset for different lighting scenarios and sequences.
Client: Iloura | Method Studios | Summit Entertainment
Role: Lead Matte Painter & Environment Artist / Concept Artist & VFX Art Director
Tools: (Photoshop, Maya, Nuke, Vray/Arnold, Speedtree, Zbrush, Katana)
- Description / Breakdown:
Handled 3 major sequences - modeling, lighting, surfacing & layout of building assets done in Maya rendered in Vray & Arnold. Matte Painted in Photoshop then projected and layered in Nuke. Everything surrounding the set was handled by assets dept. Mid ground to BG was handled by me creating new assets and using existing assets and modified incorporating the work into the assets dept from Katana to Maya and vice versa.
Additionally I was helping productions on budgeting and Supervising approaches to sequences of shots Art Directing / Conceptual Designing where needed. Look development - surfacing, lighting and mood. Managing the Environments dept. in terms of assignment, deadlines, scheduling, output etc. Pipeline development from Maya to Katana and Renderman vice versa. Development of in house tools for environment work and exchange of assets within a pipeline. Mentoring & overseeing other environment artists and their work.
Client: Digital Domain | Marvel Studios | Paramount Studios
Role: Senior Matte Painter / Environment Artist / Concept Artist
Tools: Photoshop, Maya, Nuke
Description / Breakdown:
Lighting and complete Matte Painting replacement/resurfacing using set photography and paint over CG modeling (provided by 3d dept.) done in Maya & Projected in Nuke. Ground walls & sky. Multiple projections - wide covering on the whole sequence.
These are selects from that sequence.
Client: Method Studios | Imagine Entertainment
Role: Senior Matte Painter & Concept Artist
Tools: Photoshop, Maya, Nuke
Client: MPC | Fox 2000 Pictures
Role: Senior Matte Painter / Environment Artist
Tools: (Photoshop, Maya, Nuke)
Breakdown / Description:
Adding snow filled environments. Only the set had fake snow on it. everything else was modified or completely added to replace the mid-ground and bg. Everything behind the actors from the mid ground to the BG is a Matte Painting replacing the original Spring time BG.
Sequences feature a 180 degree 10-12k Matte Painting/BG to cover the camera moves.
Client: MPC | Warner Bros. | Legendary Entertainment
Role: Senior Matte Painter & Environment Artist
Tools: Maya, Photoshop, Nuke, Speedtree
Description / Breakdown:
360 degree mountain side environment surrounding the building asset. As well as paint overs of the asset with weathering and snow.
Client: Mr.X | Universal Pictures
Role: Matte Painter & Concept Artist
Tools: Photoshop, Nuke
Description / Breakdown:
A film adaptation based on the graphic novel from Bryan Lee O'Mailey. Takes place in Toronto Canada. The goal was to suggest the graphic nature and style of the graphic novel yet maintain a photographic quality of live action feature film. A lot of simplifying of trees and surrounding areas as well as adding snow.
Client: Mr.X | CBS Films | MELS Studios Cinema
Role: Matte Painter
Description / Breakdown:
Created a 180 degree 10k panoramic cityscape image with 2 different times of day that facilitates a passing of time transition from late evening to sunrise.
Photoshop and comped / projected in Nuke
Client: Mr.X | Constantin Films
Role: Senior Matte Painter / Environment Artist
Tools: Photoshop, Maya, MRay, Nuke
Description / Breakdown:
Cityscape: Responsible for the buildings surrounding the ship takeoff area as well as the ground street level area including sky. Modelled and Lighting in Maya, Matte Painted in Photoshop and projected in Nuke. Main FG hero "109" buildings from sniper view is modelled by assets team. The hangar interior also handled by assets team. Basic shader surfacing by texturing dept. all replaced by me via matte painting.
10k mountain with forrest: matte painting in Photoshop. (reverse view featuring the incoming ship asset coming "straight to cam" done by other artist)
