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Published: 2009-04-15 15:25:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 13390; Favourites: 330; Downloads: 568
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A matte painting done in Photoshop... I was going for a looser, illustration like quality here...Related content
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Could I use this for a composite image if I give you credit?
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Amazing detail, and I love the light color to this.
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WHOA. This is my new background~ 
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Brilliant piece! really love the 80's futuristic feel to it
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That's one really strong image, I love the sense of value and how bright you made the buildings look. It looks really nice and friendly, inviting and yet grand. The dark forground building fits very well, too, love how it frames the image and creates a nice range of values in this image.
I am not entiiirely sure about the sphere thing. I can see its need for compositional reasons, but I guess it does not really make sense to me in this piece. It does not really become clear which buildings exactly it covers, and why would there be buildings both inside and outside that hemisphere.
But that aside, nice work. It definitely looks very impressive
Daniel
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Two words: HOLY CRAP!
This is one of those pieces that has inspired me to draw perspective-oriented cityscapes. I have always loved illustrations of futuristic cities, and this one in particular seems to have sparked my fuse. Thanks for the inspiration buddy!
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Thank you, and you're very welcome..
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i hope my favoriting doesn't get too annoying......
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haha, maybe some day i'll upload something worth favoriting!
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Very nice detailed and crisp. That's an awesome cloud formation in the background. The left cloud could use some slightly colour adjustment.
Overall it's a very nice composition.
Best wishes, Jack - Mattedepartment
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Thanks for the comment... Could you be more specific about the adjustment you recommend? Thanks...
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Sure mate. I think the right cloud has a very warm tone, while the large cloud in the middle shows colder tone, more to blue in the whites. As the overall painting tends to a more blue/white colour, it's maybe a better idea to correct the yellow/blue balance in the right cloud instead of correction the whole foreground. imho 
Best wishes, Jack
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Thanks... I tinted the cloud to make it come forward a bit, but now you mention it, I can see the error... The key buildings (far left and mid right) were textured using this image as a source: [link]... the rest were painted freehand... Thanks again for your observations.. appreciated!
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Your welcome my friend
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That's so cool!!! I wish there were an actual city like that out there...and flying cars. We need flying cars.
Nice perspective BTW, I like how it is positioned to look like just another photo of a city(even though this city doesn't really exist), like something a Pro Photographer might shoot...or one of those scenic spots for tourists to get a view of the ENTIRE city at once...and then go shutter crazy trying to capture EVERYTHING and everything for the photo. Also, the amount of detail in it is just incredible! every building has these little tiny windows, and every one of them is clearly a window(no pun intended LoL), not just a smudge to look like a window, they're clearly windows. How big was the canvas you worked in PS?
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Thanks... Glad you enjoy the details... The original is 4480px x 2520px... I painted many of the buildings on a separate 5000x5000 canvas and then dragged them over...
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details are everything in a painting like this! BTW, that canvas is HUGE!!
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can u show me the plate plz?
i want to see how an awesome mattepainter like u works
btw, nice work
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Thanks for the compliment.. I'd be happy to show you the plate.. except there isn't one.. Key building textures came from this image at Morguefile: [link] .. The sky came from the same source.. Most of the rest is a combination of freehand painting and photo textures from my own stock..
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Would be an appealing commute... *day dreams jetson dreams*
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