Matte Painting : Alien Chemical Plants

A personal piece based on the idea of high altitude chemical plants in an alien planet. Hope you guys like it.

Concept video - Goldfish, a wish out of water

Here is an experimental video done by me and my friends based on the below quote by Terence Mckenna.

"Well, we are fish swimming in consciousness; and yet we know it's there. Well, the reason we know it's there is because if you perturb it, then you see it"

Octhorber campaign promo for Disney XD channel

Last month I had the privilege to work as a freelance matte painter on the project Octhorber for Disney XD channel under A Post Office, Singapore. I really had a great time working with Faisal who is the art director and managing founder at A Post Office. I did almost ten digital matte paintings which served as backdrops throughout the promotion video. Here are two selected ones from this project which was super fun to work with :)

A screenshot from the final comp by Faisal

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Comp reel 2013

I have updated my Comp reel with few shots from the last gig I did, 'Olympus Has Fallen'. Do take a look and note that I have took off all the matte painting shots from this latest reel since I finally decide to keep separate reel or portfolio for both.

reel2013 comp reel from Rahul on Vimeo.

I have updated the matte painting portfolio section with couple of commercials work I have done and I will be adding more in this section from the freelance work I been doing recently.

http://www.rkvfx.com/#!mattepainting/c199t 

Some classic examples of Rear Projection Matte painting techniques

Worth a watch, it's really a reminder of how much the techniques have improved  from the days of optical compositing but the fundamentals always remains the same :)

Matte Painting from Star Wars which used rear projection technique

Click here to watch the video in viemo

Hudson River School Study by Chris Oatley

Here is a great lecture by Chris Oatley on Texturing and Rendering techniques in context of Hudson River School paintings. It's a must watch if you are into matte painting or landscape painting :)

Enjoy

Kochi 2030 Cityscape Matte Painting

I just finished working on this one with my friend Vishnu. I did mostly the matte painting part as this piece was meant for his compositing reel, do check it out and hope you guys like it :)

final kochi2030 from vishnu vimal on Vimeo.