Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 1 Hour
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Matte painting is a technique that filmmakers use to create backgrounds for scenes that can’t or don’t exist in real life. In the early days, matte paintings were actually painted onto glass. Today, modern filmmakers use digital applications such as Photoshop to produce the backdrops that they need. We have published many matte painting tutorials on this site meant for intermediate and advanced users. This tutorial is part of a series of tutorials that we will be publishing on this meant for those of you who may be relatively new to Photoshop or matte painting in general.
Today’s tutorial, Matte Painting 101: Meteor Impacts will teach you how to destroy a city with meteors. In this tutorial you will learn how to paint streams of smoke, and break up buildings. Let’s get started!
Tutorial Assets
The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.
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Nice tutorial, I think the final product is a bit to dark, the shadows are a bit to heavy for me, just my padawan-opinion :P
- http://dribbble.com/shots/207954-UFO-Icon
- Meachis
I agree, the vignette is too dark and the contrast too much. But the final result is really nice though! :)
The BASE IMAGE is no longer available on the stock site.
Can you please arrange a replacement?
I really like your technique of breaking up buildings. I normally use stock photos of destroyed buildings because I don’t have a tablet to speed the process up. However, I felt that the explosions near the impact sites looked too transparent, but that’s not the point of the tutorial is it ? :)
Great tutorial.
So Ed…
According to your last few tutorials we haven’t got that long on this planet?
:)
Nice tutorial but so sad that those brushes aren’t compatible with lower cs versions? get the error and cant use them. maybe someone could do them in cs 3 or 4 so everyone can use them not only cs5.
So i went to try out this Tutorial, but the stock photo has the watermark (figured) are you able to upload the image without the watermark or is there a tutorial on how to do so?
You can download the image here http://www.photoxpress.com/stock-photos/red/night/boat/4664703
Wow… excellent!
Lighting is off on the hot air balloons, but maybe that’s not the focus of the tutorial. The rest was quite interesting.
Nice work! Who doesn’t love a good meteor impact! Cheers Mick
your so helpful in my profession
Amazing, you made it look so simple, really good tutorial though, loved how you cracked the side of the building, thank you very much for sharing
There’s something about the smoke trails that looks a bit false but I like the concept. Thanks for featuring