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Hello,
After I've seen Avatar new trailer, I've got inspired - again and I create tropic enviroment kind of similar to Avatar's Pandora. Whole matte painting have all layers, trees, fog, lights etc.
Hope I catch up the style and atmosphere a bit
Thanks! G. ]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:58:27 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/818171

Hello,

I made this painting as a practice. You remember, when you've been going to country side, to visit grandma in the small village back home, where was no fences around the houses, not house near the house, but nice country with a good space between the houses with land? So I decide to do something like that
Hope is okay.
Gerardo.]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:57:00 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/817134

Hello guys,
I really love epic and lava enviroment. So I decide to do something and here is some volcanic enviroment. Is more technical matte painting which I found good to practice for film work. Anyway, no story for now, just enviroment, which I hope you enjoy
Many thanks! Gerardo.]]> Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:27:46 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/805978

Hello,

something new..
I wanted to create something epic. A story (I came with) about people, who are looking for Forest Nymphs and they going through epic enviroments like rocks, forest, canyon, mountains etc. Hope I`ll do them more, coz I have already lot of sketches done.
I tried to do something a bit different in design-vise(epic look) of the enviroment, not only volcanic or so, but something interesting in a shape-design and history.Hope you like it!

ou yes, here... higher res:



Many thanks. Gerardo.
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Hi guy's,

I have finished couple of new stuff, so I post it here.
Is a rainforest city. I have another one, it is from distance. I`ll try to upload it here too
I used Photoshop and 3ds max just for a basic models to pain them over and for perspective. Hope you like it.
Thank you! Gerardo.
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higher resolution:

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Hello,
just a concept paint I did in my free time
I love epic stories so I decide to do a few concept to practice!
Used Photoshop and hope you like it.
Gerardo. ]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:35:29 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/794201

Hey guy`s!
I just want to remind you that I am still alive and also I have some more concepts and matte paintings finished. So I`ll upload them here one after another. Or maybe together
This image I create to catch up a good atmosphere. Cold and warm colours + foggy early evening. I remember how the lights on the street start light in that same condition and foggy bright sky
Thanks.]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:00:15 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/781713

Hey hey,

I just want to remind you that I am still alive
Becaise od alot of work at work (strange sentence) I don`t have much time to work at home. But here is something new I did. I called it Empty Mountains because there is nothing just a realx-weekend palace
I used Photoshop.
Thank you for all usual things like comments, crit., view etc.
Hope you like it.
L.DG.S.]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:57:08 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/767905

Hi guy's,

I've been a little bit relaxing and I finish my latest painting I started a half year ago. I found it and I just finish it
Maybe not much to see, but I like this technique :P
A bit different than I use to work with.
Anyway. Hope you like it.
CC are welcome as always! Gerardo.
THX!]]> Tue, 26 May 2009 18:52:46 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/764152

Hello my guy's,

here is finished matte painting I've been working on.
Because I've been in Arctica (North pole) I took a hundreds of good pictures. I decide to do something with it Whole WIP is in the Matte Painting thread included raw photo. I used Photoshop, my photo references and 3ds max for some small objects. Now is time to move for Babylon city, which I already started. Modeling a Babylon tower and the city in 3ds max.
Hope you like it. Thank you very much
Gerardo.
]]> Fri, 15 May 2009 18:12:32 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/761576

Hello guy's,
Just to present my another new/old matte painting, I've been creating a few months ago -or so. I used Photoshop and my references, from my collection for paint them over etc.
Thanks! So let's have a look
Gerardo.]]> Fri, 08 May 2009 18:33:33 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/758243

Hello there.
Ok, I finish it. I dodn't want to overwork it, to keep the scene more clear for reading. I've seen on my holiday on Discovery Channel - survival month and I decide to do thise tornadoes and I choice city Prague! Most beautifull city in Europe to be destroyed :P In the Matte Painting thread is a little wip. I started a bit late, but anyway thanks for support! Gerardo.]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:43:55 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/755905

Hello guy's!
I've done another personal work which I called Bat vallley, because of alot of huge rocks with caverns. I am thinking to do an animation. To pass to my friend Samat (good animator) and do some good animation of bats coming from behind the camera and fly away through rocks etc. we'll see. Anyway I used Photoshop and references I took with camera. Hope you like it.
Thank you! ]]> Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:27:57 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/751027

Hi guy's. Its been some time, so here is a couple of matte paintings I've done just for fun. I've been inspired by hobbit artworks, so I decide to do some mattes in that mood
Used: Photoshop.
Hope you like them! C&C are welcome!
Thanks: Gerardo.]]> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:18:39 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/727594

Hey guys, how you doing?
I just finish a few matte-paintings so.. I want to share with you.
I have finished more, but I cannot upload all of them
Both mattes are done in Photoshop. Hope you like them!
Thank you!]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:02:26 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/702558

Hello guy`s:
I just have new matte-painting finished and I would like to get some crit.,thoughts what could be better, or just a comment .
I used Photoshop and 3ds max just for a UFO render. Than I paint it over. Thank you ]]> Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:41:54 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/697051

Hello guy`s!
A months ago(4/5), I upload in my portfolio a render of the ships I prepare for a next mattp. Since I`ve been a little bit lazy after a lot of work I have at the moment, I decide to finish it! It was big fight with my laziness - I won! I finish it this way so no snow, hope is fine with you
Thanks.]]> Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:06:44 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/668069

Hola guy`s.
Just a painting in my free time. I just wanted to paint something more deep
I was trying to do bad, sad and dark atmosphere with some kind of strange story insight. Is about the woman, she going 11.years every day out from home, into the same place near river and waiting for her son. But still the same... nothing...!]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:27:04 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/645423

Hello guy`s,

I have finished a few volcanoes matte-paintings and I would like to show you a few of them For creatiing those matte-paintings it needs to be really patient for the details and overall look and i hope that you like it. Thank you guy`s. Have a nice day! G!]]> Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:37:53 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/656220

Hello guy`s,

I have done a few new matte-paintings.Here are a few of them.
1st. Ice-cave Base - I love to work on ice enviroments
2nd. Landscape valley - it was funn to work on this one
I used photoshop and references I had and paint them over. Plus a few elements I had, which I recycle them and paint them over. Hope you like them any crit., comments are welcome.
Regards: Gerardo.]]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:42:06 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/642496

Hello guy`s! I have finished another personal matte-painting. I was on hollyday and I didn`t touch my tablet, so I am back and I finish this one Cheers: G.]]> Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:02:59 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/634558

Hello guy`s! I just finish my new/old image I start working on a year or so ago. Its just a clouds enviroment. I used Photoshop a few references + skills I`ve got how the clouds working, how to paint them, how gradient working, colours etc. So, here is a result
Thanks! Hope you like it.]]> Thu, 22 May 2008 23:44:44 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/632332

Hello guy`s!

Because I had a free tme couple of day`s, I finish my another matte-painting. The ships you see I made in 3ds max but I paint them over. For the rest I used Photoshop. I made it for my portfolio and animation is comming soon Thanx! G!
BTW: in down is a 100% close up of 3k matte.]]> Fri, 16 May 2008 17:38:03 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/624743

Hello, I have time to finish a quickly matte-painting about London. I have done Paris, New York, Washington, My town and now is time for London I used a few references and I paint over them enjoy! Thank you. G!]]> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:19:57 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/623507

Hey guy`s . I was really bussy last few weeks (hollyday, book, some another things to do.. etc/etc.) and I doesn`t had a time to do something. But now I have a little time to finish my unfinished matte-paintings. And here is one of them. Submarine Cementery.
Thank you! Gee! ]]> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:04:34 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/617473

Hello. I just have another speed paint finished. I was trying to keep a old traditional plainting style of that. I used photoshop and tablet. Hope you`ll like it as speed paint
G! Thanks.]]> Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:29:13 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/608674

Hello guy`s. I have done new matte-painting and now I am going for hollyday - finalyyy I have used Photoshop, some references and I paint alot there. I hope you like it! I`ll have 2.weeks off, so have funn friends! Cheers-G! ]]> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:55:03 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/602410

Hello friends!
I just have finished new matte-painting. I used as you can see 3ds max and Photoshop. In down is a render from max and than I did a paint over. I hope you like it.
Gerardo.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:54:07 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/594495

Holla friends I have a little time to post my new work here so enjoy I called it Gabriela. Its a ship which get lost in Antarctica and was again discovered. I used mainly Photoshop for that matte-painting.Hope you like it.
Thank you mates. G!]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:37:52 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/590325

Hello friends. I have finished my another painting. I used Photoshop only for that. I try to bring here a old traditional painting style.As I said, I am trying to get better with painting :/
Thank you for comments, crit., view etc.
G! ]]> Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:05:58 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/588378

Hello friends! I have here for you a painting of Autunm enviroment. I used Photoshop only and wacom tablet. I have trying to do it in the old painting mood. I hope you`ll like it. Ciao!
Gerardo.]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:08:15 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/586986

Hello, my new matte-painting I`ve done for my new reel. I have a very short and basic animation, but I wanna remake it to the animation where the sun going up and slowly show the landscape and forest I used Photoshop and 3ds max for lay_out animation. Thanks. ::G::
Animation:
http://www.degerardo.com/bigpic/dt.avi ]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:32:49 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/544485

Hey guy`s. I have another work finished. I used 3ds max, but only for basic meshes and shapes of mountains and etc. But I used mostly Photoshop. Painter only for some geometry in this scene. Here are two images. The first-one is only landscape and second-one is landscape with some dinos :P Thank you.
::Gerardo::]]> Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:18:52 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/566922

Hi friends. I have done my second character. Maybe a strong title if you compare with the result, but I want to keep a more artistic style. I should put more details, but I wanna keep the woman here a little far from real(photo) and put there more 80`s paint style thank you.]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:03:49 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/499548

Hello friends, I have finished my new 3D matte-painting. I used 3ds max for the basic mesh of the enviroments and for the render images with textures and for the modeling I used one reference also for the texture, Zbrush for the details and final 3D objects and Photoshop for the over painting and for the painting some details, colour correction, lights correction and for the final matte. I hope, that you like it. It is a matte-painting but the 80% of this image is 3D, so I put it here. Thank you! Gerardo.]]> Wed, 23 May 2007 20:17:23 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/493506

Hi friends, I have finished my latest professional work for the movie. Now I can upload it. Thanx to the Blue Arts Ent. company. This matte is without posproduction/effects. It is the final matte and with fog, dynamic lights/shadows is really cool later I send the link-after the movie will be 100% finished.
I know it is a very similar as dylan cole work, but my client was want same colour-palette and style of cementery. So I did a sketch and after approval I did this matte.
Thanx. G.
]]> Sun, 06 May 2007 22:43:22 +0000 http://degerardo.cgsociety.org/gallery/402327

Hello friends, I am working on the film project with name
RED-STAR Hammer&Sickle::
I used Photoshop, Painter and 3ds max.
3ds max for the perspective, some elements.
Painter for some painting elements,
Photoshop for final composition, lights/shadows, retouch.

This project is about the Soviet Power.
Soviet "king" Lenin wants to occup all continents in the world and create Soviet Union. Everything for everybody...etc.

So, I hope, that you like it and soon I upload another 2.mattes for this film project. I hope, that you like it. Thank you ]]> Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:37:38 +0000