Matte painting for Experience: Jungle

In the past, I volunteered as a matte painter for an amateur film so I could have a means to increase my skill.  These are a few examples:

Shot 17-9 composited background.

Comparison of the camera footage for shot 17-9 and the background composited behind the actor.

 

 

Deconstruction of composited background for shot 17-9.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shot 15-7 composited background.

Shot 15-7 lo-res camera footage and composited background comparison.

Shot 17-2 composited.

Shot 17-2 camera footage and composited background comparison.

Shot 17-6 composited background.

Shot 17-6 camera footage and composited background comparison.

The Nameless Freedom Fighters: 3D Sets

Line art and concept art activates creative juices, but I'd like the end result to be either be entirely 3D (ala Pixar animation) or live action with all the wiz-bang digital production provides. 

One of the methods I use for story ideas is to alter interesting photos, imagine a situation with characters, and determine what motivates them to be there.  I may overpaint the photo, paint it entirely with modifications, or build a 3D model of the interesting traits and fill in the blanks.

I recently used Blender for the latter process and animated a sweeping camera following a character and it's escorts (represented as retangular boxes) inside what could be a prison, compound, bunker, observatory, etc.  You can get a sense of the environment in this crudely rendered 42 second shot.

The Nameless Freedom Fighters: Whips and Jungles

I'm working out story ideas and sketched one of the simpler shots.  Our yet-to-be-named hero is chased through an alien jungle on anti-gravity Racers by a Gang whose members prove their worth by death defying feats.  Rather than use projectile weapons to stop our hero, Adepts lasso the mechanized machine like a Rodeo Calf and swing to their prey for the up-close kill.

The comic-book style sound effects seemed appropriate for this frame, but it could also be turned into an animatic for a cartoon, 3D or live action version.