CG Stuff & Things

What a week! Really nothing to show for my efforts but it was very educational! My journey into matte painting had really hit a wall but I've managed to solve all of the technical problems that were impeding me. Should be seeing some neat stuff in the coming weeks! In the meantime I thought I'd share something I put together a little while ago.

So this is a fun little thing I put together for an online photo contest. The rules were simple; take a picture of the Omega Supreme figure you see above. I guess there was only one rule. This guy here is the mighty Omega Supreme of Transformers fame and I'm gonna have to talk about this incredibly epic action figure sometime. I took this opportunity to practice my matte painting and put him in a crazy action scene. The layout is actually a bit of an homage to this comic book cover.

It's made up of about 17 different photographic elements, jazzed up with some extra smoke, dust, and lighting effects. I rather like how his red glowy bits turned out. Overall it's not as fine-tuned as I would have liked (the city wasn't nearly as damaged as I would have liked) but the contest had been already going a while and I wanted to get my entry in. That and it's a picture of action figures so how good is it supposed to be, right? Also big shout-out to my good friend Cass who took the original photo of Omega.