Final Matte Painting

This project I did by taking a picture of downtown Chicago and than manipulating it to look like an abandoned city covered in sand. I did this by creating a mask on the background and than masking over the things I didn't want to show. Than I layered other images i created using custom brushes under it to incorporate them in the scene. I then used color adjustment, layer styles and blending modes to make the patch-work picture look like everything belonged together. The brushes I created were vines, fog, sand, tumbleweeds and wind. The texture I created for this level concept involved the sand which would be the floor of the level.

Texture brick wall

For this project I had to make a texture for a brick wall that was tillable. First I picked a non-tiled wall from the CG textures site, and than brought that into photoshop. From there I copy and pasted half of the picture over and flipped it making sure to match up the seams so that none of them showed. I then color corrected it with some color balance and levels; and than added in shadowing around bricks that stuck out more than others. I merged and saved this to be my diffuse map, next I started on my specular map. I flattened the image down and added a black & white adjustment filter to it. I than further adjusted it with curves to make the shadows and light pop more with in the image.