Meteor Strike Matte

My goal for this project was to create a scene where a city is being hit by meteors. I was to create debris and realistic impacts and smoke, using given brushes. I downloaded the brushes and replaced the set I had for those. I then created a few smoke streams ranging from different shades of gray to create depth. I also added smoke stacks around the buildings and later, after cutting large pieces of the buildings off and moving them off the side a bit, I painted in fire bursts coming from inside and around the impact holes. The fire brushes were borrowed from Chris, who found them on a web site that hosted photoshop brushes. I edited this brush preset to scatter it often and mix up the colors so it looks more like wild lively fire. I later went back and painted in debris chunks, by using a provided brush and using the eyedropper to get the color of the building I wanted debris flying out of. Finally, I touched up the color of the overall image, darkening up the skies, and adding in more red and orange tone and highlights. To make the overall appearance seem as though this took place sometime in the afternoon.