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Dragon Paintings

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Here is a collection of concept paintings I made for the Dragon project. All were painted in Photoshop.

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Jungle Painting

Scarlet Macaws
Costa Rican Scarlet Macaws

I have been working on some artwork for my sister. She wanted something that looked like an old tropical postcard. So first I painted the nice little Costa Rican Landscape below and then put it through the photoshop ringer, and after a lot of masking and engraving filters was able to deliver the above painting. I like it. Especially the color tones on the mountains in the background.

fully saturated
The raw un-rendered painting

There are more elements to this piece but I will post them at a later time.

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Valley Pan

A camera projection test I made in Maya. The goal was to create a 2d/3d hybrid look.

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The Northern Pass

Mountain Valley
The valley from my “Dragon” project

One of the reasons I have been trying to learn Maya is so I can make 2.5d backgrounds for my projects. I have been playing around with this a lot in the last few weeks with little success. I usually run into trouble with transperancy and alpha channel issues on my projection maps. Nothing ever seems to work but I’ll get it here at some point.

Above I have posted a rough background plate of the great norther pass overlooking the city of Wu which I hope to use for this, my second attempt at 2.5d.  I painted everything in layers. There are about 20 in all. So I should have a lot to play with. I’ll post my progress as I go.