From the course: Digital Matte Painting: Changing a Scene From Summer to Winter
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Adding snow to the background trees
From the course: Digital Matte Painting: Changing a Scene From Summer to Winter
Adding snow to the background trees
Now the mountains are looking snowcapped, but we still have these green trees in the background, and we're going to get rid of them with some painting. With the custom brush that we created in the previous lesson selected, let's zoom in and take a look at these mountains. While painting into the mountains, we want to reinforce the direction of the light. The light is coming from the left, so the left side of the mountain should be brighter and the right side should have more of that shadow color. Make sure white is loaded into the foreground color picker, and let's scribble some tone into these background trees. I don't want to paint every individual tree; I just want to break up the pattern of the hillside so that it looks like it's covered with snow. You need to think about how trees would capture snow. The underside of the branches would be showing through and it wouldn't be a solid snow cover. This sort of custom brush is really good for painting this kind of textured surface. It…
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Creating a custom brush2m 58s
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Adding snow to the background trees5m 45s
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Adding form to the foothills3m 31s
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Painting through a high-contrast matte2m 42s
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Adding snow to the rooftops2m 58s
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Removing hard shadows3m 50s
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Painting icicles with a custom brush2m 2s
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Covering greenery with snow5m 7s
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Painting the background trees4m 49s
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Adding snow to horizontal surfaces4m 19s
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