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7. Matte Painting Techniques---3-1.Using Google Maps

P77 - 00:00?

?So let’s say now we will first find the environment we need to build with. We want to build up. And we will insure our characters.?

P77 - 00:12需要確保我的角色。?

So in general, when you're doing environment like there are so many tools that will give us a chance to kind of make a lot of shortcuts like vanishing point is one of them.?

P77 - 00:25介紹幾個快捷鍵。?

When you take something and you start playing it inside 3D. another very powerful tool actually is Google. but I will show you how it works. For example, Let's start being like a street view and go to Google maps. ?

P77 - 00:42看谷歌地圖的街景。?

So in Google maps, we will select something that we might like just look at this pictures. that looks interesting. Liverpool street station,?

P77 - 00:58比如某個車站的街景。?

Let's see how it goes. And then we will go to panorama as the panorama is a very powerful because someone already did a concept art for you guys.?

P77 - 01:11比如維度街景就是好的概念藝術。?

And because you can select any angle you want. There are so many stories that you can tell just with a single photos.?

P77 - 01:27單一照片就可以分辨出來的視角。?

like for example, let's screen grab like this, And let's say we're doing like a post apocalyptic zombie and stuff like that.?

P77 - 01:39比如象征大動亂的僵尸等。?

So we will have a bunch of soldiers. And we will also have like zombies and stuff like that. And instead of trying to do everything from scratch, we will actually use a very good base to start from.?

P77 - 01:50在這基礎上比單純的草稿好用。?

And because here you can kind of select any angle you want. It's not going to be perfect, but at least it's a good, very solid start. ?

P77 - 02:00不完美但是很堅實的基礎。?

Let’s say it's a panic time when people are rushing towards the trains and stuff like that. and we've got soldiers running or soldiers shooting at them and they're coming out of those basis.?

P77 - 02:15表演一個士兵追擊的劇照。?

So we will take this photo as a base. Let me go to Mixamo. Instead of trying to find all these people and kept them out, it's very time consuming.?

P77 - 02:31如果持續(xù)的鏤刻，會費很多時間。?

So for example, in the Mixamo, you can do Zombies whatever you want, if you go to characters. You can select like crazy amount of different characters. So basically, you find a zombie that you kind of like. For example,? And then you have a cool animation with this girl, ?

P77 - 03:11而且還有很酷炫的動畫。?

For example, you can put her over here and the soldiers are firing. And there's a bunch of zombies running, all that stuff. So we've got just screen grabbed her like this. paste it over here.?

P77 - 03:37把僵尸貼到3D場景中。?

And we've got her integrated. She's not integrated perfectly, but we don't need it. And i'll show you later why. so you can go create like different things.?

P77 - 03:59所以你可以創(chuàng)建不同的場景。?

for example, to be a little bit more scary. It's almost like she's crawling towards us. So imagine if we probably did this and we've got our soldiers, you can place them anywhere. And anyhow you want, you can possibly have them firing the there, like all the panels like saying suspended, suspended, suspended,?

P77 - 04:24周圍配音全部是“禁止”。?

just to show their back pocket. all the papers have thrown like stuff like that. But we would be doing the next step. I mean, you can frankenstein this like you can cut out the different photos and bring them together, But what would be like next ultimate step.?

P77 - 04:44最終的步驟是什么？?

Or how you can develop this one. And i'll show you a couple of shortcuts that will actually enable us to kind of progress in story telling matter and progress to kind of created by spain's instead of trying to get busy with all those technical aspects. ?

P77 - 05:07會涉及到講述故事的技術方面。?

And the first step would be what you need to do. You need to simplify. Because whenever you put the brush stroke. let me just close the Mixamo.?

P77 - 05:22研究筆觸的技巧。?

for example, when I put the brush stroke, you see over here? it just looks like it's something alien. It's not in this world, Because it's very flat. Like, imagine if I wanted to do it, I can order them in here, I can put the ornament, but it’s gonna scream very badly that this is a painting. that's why I need to spend more time to kind of painting all the textures and stuff like that. Just to make it look like it's integrated inside this picture.?

P77 - 06:02繪制卡片人似外星人。刷子材質。?

So what do we need to do? First thing and very important thing we need to simplify it. Like if I go and select different color, simplify it or stylized. It will save us time. And it also allows us to concentrate on storytelling and design rather than on photo realism,?

P77 - 06:41專注講述故事而不是照片真實性。?

which is very difficult to pull out in a very short amount of time. So I would show you like when we were doing line drawings how to stylize and drop everything towards line drawing so we can actually paint with lines, you can simplify it like this.?

P77 - 06:58可以找出線稿來。?

And then you basically can go back and like designing like soldiers, different things.?

P77 - 07:07可以在線稿里繪制新線稿角色。?

And so it's one way of simplification. So we're not dealing with hyper realism.?

P77 - 07:13簡約化而并不是照片高真的。?

what makes you easily to delete like a lot of spinks and you will not recognize it. and start introducing like even making dramatic changes in our lodging this space and stuff like that. That’s 1 of the ways to simplifying. But I would love to show you some different cool things that you can do. ?

P77 - 07:34還有其它的方案。?

So first thing you can do, you can go to filter and you can go to blurb and select surface blur. So basically what surface blurred as it simplifies all that kind of keeps the edges of your painting like parts that has contrast, but it just simplifies the rest. It just makes it look like. Basically like it was painted with a flat value.?

P77 - 08:08模糊平面值，簡約對照。?

Now there is no Information over here, which is great because like if I wanna paint this page and now I can easily do it with a flat brush and it will not scream like, this is a different picture.?

P77 - 08:21可以用扁平刷子繪制不同圖層。?

or like I could start playing with this ornament. And you won't be able to say, it was painted afterwards. It's very good because it simplifies everything good enough for us to start painting over like this guy over here,?

P77 - 08:40稍后繪制的很容易簡化。?

?I can start painting his skin and you will hardly tell that it was painted afterwards because it’s almost like stylized picture. she is very cool.?

P77 - 08:55模糊之后再加入繪制線條。?

This is what we need. We need to simplify. Like you can simplify a few times in the role, and it will become more and more stylized, which is great. ?

P77 - 09:04可以簡化角色，風格化。?

In terms of time spent on it. you can spend much last time, I will be careful. At some point, you start to lose the details. But maybe this is what you want.?

P77 - 09:15有時候失去細節(jié)，可能這是效果。?

instead of being very kind of photo real, you can stylize it, now you can paint this guy. You can introduce a little bit of line drawing. So it's almost like a stylized version of what we had,?

P77 - 09:36像是風格化我們選定的。?

But now you've got much more freedom. And you can do stuff much quicker than you were before, because everything is kind of stylized, ?

P77 - 09:45會融入在風格化的場景里。?

And then you can start painting some other people over here and stuff like that. That's the first way to do it. And I will show you different more examples. But I was just going quickly back and i'll show you. I think I need to screen reality again. I was just trying to do another example actually. For example, there is not a street like this,?

P77 - 10:21比如這是另外一個街景。?

which is more moody and kind of really nice. So basically, Google is the very thing you can travel around on the street and find a good composition. The good setting for your story,?

P77 - 10:363維街景中找到適合講述你故事。?

For example, let's screen grab this. go to photoshop. We can crawl like make a cinematic crawl for this. That's almost looks like it's from James bond, So let's try surface blur again.?

P77 - 11:06復制到PS，再用表面模糊方案。?

Also, if you press CTRL shift f kind of can dial it back a little bit. So sometimes it's too much.?

P77 - 11:27CSF調節(jié)飽和度模糊與清晰。?

And as you can see, the picture on the benefits where we started from. And now it's much more simplified version of it.?

P77 - 11:38這是簡化的版本。?

Let's do another example.And we will get this. surface blowing once again? You can see how stylize it becomes like we can take this guy and we can convert it into some kind of spaceship cordray very quickly. And we can start actually designing these things because now it's very stylized. It's not as photo real as it used to be.?

P77 - 12:36這是風格化的而不是照片保真度。?

So I can start painting things, with the flat brush. And it will not scream saying, it's a painted element.?

P77 - 12:47這是繪制的元素。?

because so the first step would be simplifying and we will be doing it using surface blur. in the next chapter, I will show you how to actually introduce a little bit of painting for the service to also stylized things a little bit. ?

P77 - 13:10本節(jié)課表面模糊下節(jié)課繪制。?

So see you in the next chapter.

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7. Matte Painting Techniques---3-2.Simplification

P78 - 00:00?

So we will take the same view. Basically, it's the same location, we’ll screen grab it. And I will show you the way to stylized things because if you want to paint with the texture brushes,?

P78 - 00:28用紋理刷子繪制。?

and just to make it a bit more painterly, every time you put a brush stroke, it will just look very alien to this place. So what we basically do, let's just get rid of those guys. maybe crop it like this. ?

P78 - 00:52噴涂和裁剪。?

We will create a pattern out of it. So let me just re size this to a decent size.?

P78 - 01:03大小調節(jié)到自然狀態(tài)。?

So we don't experienced any slow down. So you find a pattern from this exactly the same picture.?

P78 - 01:12得到同樣材質的圖片。?

And then we will go to pattern stamp tool. And basically here we will select our pattern that we just created and what it basically will do. It will create the same layer. But now you can use like a different set of brushes to make it look like it's painting.?

P78 - 01:35不同的材質刷子看起來像是繪制。?

Basically what it does. It kind of uses the same babies, but it just, I don't know exactly how to explain how it works, but basically when you drag it, it's almost makes that the feeling that you painted this like let me just play with it a little bit and you will see what I mean. Like you can select different brushes as well. For example, let’s do this one. It's kind of like simplifying everything. almost what you do the surface blur a bit more controlled. you want to simplify just wherever you want to simplify,?

P78 - 02:23可控的表面模糊。?

And you see as we kind of paint, let's just go back to this one. Simplifying more and more. So it's kind of a very good way to manually smudge what you think is not important.?

P78 - 02:59模糊掉你認為不正確的。?

because in paintings, what's good in painting? You just emphasize what you think is important and drop the rest in terms of Christmas. ?

P78 - 03:13繪制剩下的。?

So look at this. I can quickly go and you see it becomes more and more like a painting, especially on the clouds, like if you use this one. And it's very different from mixer brush as well.?

P78 - 03:38跟混合刷子完全不同。?

Because you are not mixing anything. You’re just using the same painting. And you see, this guy looks almost like it's been painted. And now like if you want to paint something additional, using brush work, it will not scream. It will be just much more unified with the rest of the picture,?

P78 - 04:11用刷子看起來和剩下的材質類似。?

Like for example, if I go and select start doing things like putting like all leagues and stuff like that. because everything else starts to look like it's being painted??

P78 - 04:25紋理刷子涂抹后看起來繪制圖。?

It doesn't scream to me. It’s very important technique to do when you want to stylized thing. Because painting, getting fully photo real concept art.?

P78 - 04:41繪制出照片保真的概念藝術。?

It's just time consuming. And some sometimes it's not very good in terms of creative process, because you're spending more time thinking about how to unify your picture rather than spending more time on creative process.?

P78 - 04:59如何融合替代創(chuàng)意性的思維。?

You don't think how you can make your design better and stuff like that. the more I do it. And you can, of course, combined it like smudge tool and when there's this smudge tool. It's much here and there to create a painterly effect. look at this part already looks pretty painter. so that's one of the methods. ?

P78 - 05:44用模糊工具。?

And ultimately there is another method to do it. But It's for that one, for example. I can take this one. And if I go to filter, i've got this artwork plugin.?

P78 - 06:01過濾-藝術工作的插件。?

And you can buy it online. It's not very expensive. So basically, it automates this process. But you need to be very careful with it because it's just a program. It's not a human that doesn't know how to make beautiful pictures.?

P78 - 06:17自動化程序比不上人如何潤色圖。?

It only knows how to put are those filters on Top of your work. So like for example, if I activated, this is what I end up having, and It's less controlled from what I had before because it just plays his brushwork everywhere.?

P78 - 06:40藝術工作把圖片全部涂長材質刷。?

But the good news you can kind of mix them together. Like for sky. Probably this one is working, but not for the buildings because there's much more details.?

P78 - 06:49可以混合，如一個非具體一具體。?

And finally, you've got a very stylized picture, which is very cool because once you put the brush drop, that is stylized and not for the real,?

P78 - 07:02刷子是風格化的并不真實。?

it wouldn't be looking like it's something very alien to this place.For example. Let’s paint this one. For example, I want to do another setup labs, just color pick this.?

P78 - 07:37比如可以繪制燈光。?

And I keep going and keep introducing new paint into the elements. to this picture, and just look fine because it just unify to it the rest of the picture. But if we were using a photo and trying to apply the painting on top of it,?

P78 - 08:08添加的考慮融入不如照片上繪制。?

it would look unified. And it would just take you ages. So let's stop here and do another example.?

P78 - 08:21接下來談簡化。?

So let's talk about simplification. I'm very big fan of simplifying everything. So we will take a couple of locations and try to make them less photo, which is, as I said, it's very time consuming to get a photo real state,?

P78 - 08:38照片材質的狀態(tài)很難獲得。?

and it's not very efficient design wise because you need to do stuff really quickly. You need to see you explore ideas.?

P78 - 08:47需要看到探索的結果。?

Of course, doing photo of your stuff is great. It's just in terms of quick story telling. It's not something that I prefer to do when I'm just brainstorming and trying to find things that are interesting.?

P78 - 09:02頭腦風暴找到有趣的點。?

We will take a couple of pictures like we will be using Google maps. So we will have the street view. Just get rid of those. put on ceramic bars make something much more systematic.?

P78 - 09:25調整到對稱的點。?

And that's actually converted to black and white. And apply surface blue,?

P78 - 09:29轉化到黑白圖-進行表面模糊。?

When can I apply a surface a few times.Let's just recite this guy. So as you can already see, it starts to get much more graphic. Like there is no Information over here. So it will be really easier for me to use flat brush to change things.?

P78 - 09:51用平刷子很容易改變。?

and I can keep going, like, let's do it a few more times. Maybe that one was too much. And now basically I can start painting using my flat brush.?

P78 - 10:06模糊之后繼續(xù)用平刷工具。?

some people walking, because it's way less photo real at the moment. And like for example, if this was a part of my story, I will start actually, for example, I can go to darken mode. And let's say there is something giant behind it,?

P78 - 10:32增黑模式，背后是巨型大物。?

?Let's see if this was a good seal or something like that, Knock back a little bit. And then because it's very graphic, I can start building people like people running and stuff like that. it's very chaotic.?

P78 - 11:21比如后面團霧，人開始逃跑。?

You can see smoke coming. People are just trying to escape, And there is like a lot of smoke in the background. So we know something is wrong. ?

P78 - 11:57比如背景有煙霧讓人感覺出錯了。?

So we can start using smudge tool to kind of smudge things that not really important in this picture. What's important here is this action going on over here, Be a good sailor. He's the main guy.?

P78 - 13:04比如背景的圖是劇照的主角。?

And you probably can have also using blending modes. That's extra dark colors.?

P78 - 13:14用混合模式黑色。?

And then we can do it This other guy who is fighting with, over here. He's much closer to the camera. Like even have his tail. Maybe coming behind those buildings.?

P78 - 14:36比如對面對手，尾巴在樓層后面。?

So and it already looks way more achievable, because we are using not very photo real image. imagine if it was with color and stuff like that. It would probably take ages to kind of unify and look them pretty well. what we can do? We can just, again, we can go on. Let’s just make a couple of clouds between atmosphere.?

P78 - 15:27繪制云層和烏煙瘴氣。?

And we've got this running people over here. And I can go probably try to apply. That's a bit too much. But also again apply find edges filter probably.?

P78 - 15:49找到邊緣看線稿。?

Just multiply.? So it's almost stylize as it's almost like a sketch. But you can see how simplifying things helps so much to kind of progressive and. Do you really need to take a photo real? it depends on what you're trying to sell. But if you're doing a set of images like a set of different domains to show your client this is the perfect way to do this. ?

P78 - 16:26看多重層風格。?

because you just simplifying everything so much.For example, you can also pick photos. You can not only know about Panoramas. it's just panorama have a very cool way. Because you can switch like angles very quickly. But if you don't want it, you can use can use photos, Let's go and do the surface blur.?

P78 - 16:57表面模糊的工具。?

That's a couple of times. And then, for example, you can use mixer brush. Let's start mix guy with a bit more painter. And then use all the blending most covered in lesson five.?

P78 - 17:37課程五用到的混合模式。?

as you can see, just by reusing this element but also they seem to simplify again, I was able to achieve it quit graphic look almost a sketch of a version of it. and all we need to do is to put a bit couple of characters.?

P78 - 19:19混合建筑，云彩，加入角色。?

Job is done, that's pretty much it on simplification. I showed you how to do paint and stuff, but also just simplifying photos and making them look much more graphic. That's why people commented like graphic, because they’re not want to do photo real was really cool.but it's just something It's boring in terms of the way it looks that that's why people appreciate painting.?

P78 - 20:05可能人更喜歡繪制的偏向于照片。?

But by saying that I never want to mean that doing photo real stuff is bad when you're doing photo real stuff is cool. But I think it's smartly is much more cooler. You're not relying too much on the photo that you're relying on your knowledge of basic shapes and you're relying on your knowledge how to quickly generate stories rather than just mixing, trying to make photos and just trying to find in everything. ?

P78 - 20:31依據形狀繪制，而不是拼湊照片。?

So amazing. Instead of the screens who like spaceship or something like that. Now you guys know how to simplify it. Using like smudge tool.?

P78 - 23:30用模糊工具進行簡化。?

that's about simplification. See you in the next chapter.

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7. Matte Painting Techniques---3-3.Combining 3D and Google Maps

P79 - 00:00?

And let's pick another angle. Let’s bring out the car. But something else in of course, let me just save it, then shut it down. let's start a new file.?

P79 - 00:47打開最近的圖層。?

Let’s save emerge. So what do we do? We will bring in another model. And bring in some helicopters.?

P79 - 02:08加入直升飛機。?

We've got this really nice helicopter. And what we need to do rotating him. So let's just merged group him.?

P79 - 02:26融合成一組。?

Let's see if our ground plane Is aligning with everything else.?

P79 - 02:51視角-展示-3D地平面。?

Not yet. I will make it working. So something like this. That's pretty close, And now we will go to a helicopter something make bigger.?

P79 - 03:10選中直升飛機后放大。?

So imagine if we put it over here. Shadow and then hit the render. That's actually pretty close. So we can do all the same tricks, overlay and the shadows and stuff like that.?

P79 - 04:18重疊 陰影等重復的技能。?

But what's cool about it, I can once again go and start duplicating this guy. Moving him around, and imagine the story was right. What's happening here? So let's make it a decent size. ?

P79 - 05:15復制后移動。?

You can, for example, have. If we turn off the wrong plane. So you can start building your story. Like you can have the soldiers running towards the helicopter,?

P79 - 05:41關閉錯面板，士兵朝著飛機奔跑。?

Probably his door is open. And you can see inside like then helicopter is just about to fly. when you see a bunch of soldiers running, there are a couple more just for the reference. Probably this helicopter needs to be a little bit bigger.?

P79 - 06:16直升飛機稍微大一點。?

And then you hit render. Providing lighting should be coming from there, Maybe push him something like this. And then you see civilians running away from this, And in the background, you actually see. Something huge, over there.?

P79 - 07:33市民逃離直升飛機，上面有云層。?

A murder scene from the sky. And you've got independence day. All you need to do is just to render it again. And it's coming together. So it's a nice combination of photo shop in 3D and all that cool stuff.?

P79 - 08:15看看渲染后的效果。?

We probably can do the same trick. Take a photo and go to environment. Make a new texture. Save it.?

P79 - 08:42照片-選擇新環(huán)境新材質-保存。?

And then go back to. Let's see how well it works. It's going to be pretty brighter. Obviously, you need to change the color of this, the black.Let's hit the render and see how it goes. this guy looks pretty cool. that wasn't an instant. So that's why it's quite much brighter. So you can quickly get those models. you don't need the shot, you don't need octane all of the super complicated programs.?

P79 - 09:42不需要octane復雜渲染軟。?

If you really know what you are doing inside photoshop, if you're really familiar with 3D in photoshop and familiar how to rearrange things, how to use Google maps, how to use vanishing points.?

P79 - 09:55重拍 地圖 消失點。?

Those are things that are really helpful and they can dramatically improve your workflow because it's just inside photoshop guys. Everything you do is just around the tools that we have in photoshop, Let's just delete that guy. And make an instance, Like the amount of stuff you can generate is just in the scene.?

P79 - 10:34可以生成很多場景。?

just blades. Hit render. Probably need to re just shadows as well. So we go to the environment, shadows of the little bit softer shadows, just a tiny bit,?

P79 - 11:42加入一點陰影。?

That starts to look pretty cool. I can go on. Just carry a little bit on the 3D only. So that's pretty much it. And these are the basics how you combine 3D Google maps backgrounds.?

P79 - 14:29可以結合谷歌地圖。?

And next lesson we will use all that knowledge to actually finalized if you have finished pieces and then you will see how we will progress and use all the knowledge that we had.?

P79 - 14:40可以用到所有的程序。?

Like, for example, in this one, we're using these zigzag like we go over here, we're going over here. You cannot do this if you’re skipping the part where you keep everything simple because that's what makes you very powerful.?

P79 - 14:57讓一切保持簡單。?

You know how to progress and do this stuff. Not just like take a picture of pain on Top of it. now we know how to do the thumbnail. We know how to progress. And we know how to simplify things before we start actually getting very complicated.?

P79 - 15:14在變得復雜之前保持簡潔。?

That's why we keep everything inside photoshop. It makes everything much more simpler. we take all the liberties to change things and to kind of start bending over where we need to do it.?

P79 - 15:30把需要的信息都混合起來。?

But imagine if during this scene in 3D, you need to sculpt everything you need to model, which is time consuming. It takes ages, we're having this one. It's so cool. Like you can go back and wide, go back and simplified it again using surface blur. So it looks more like a graphic novel can crunch your blacks. So it starts to look at least like a photo, ?

P79 - 16:03調節(jié)曲線，看起來像是個照片。?

Black surface blur surface several times. And you've got a graphic novel, Something like this. You can usually do like a bubble,

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7. Matte Painting Techniques---4.Homework

P80 - 00:00?

So your homework for this week is pretty straightforward. So what I want you guys to do is to do at least one study per techniques that i've shown in this lesson.?

P80 - 00:10研究其中一個學到的技能。?

So basically, you need to experiment with height maps. I really want you to get into maximum views and to do a couple of character designs and maybe animate them and do like a simple scene with them.?

P80 - 00:23地圖場景加入角色和動畫。?

And the 3rd exercise would be just actually? using Google maps, exploring different ideas, trying to find different cool locations. Like you can go and skull like castles different cds and just create something really cool and simplify it as much as possible and try to knock out a couple of versions if possible.?

P80 - 00:47可以簡化不同的版本。?

And of course, if you have more time, I would love you to see two or three and four advance people four five studies paper techniques that i've shown. let's get started. And good luck to you.?