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.