Whoa thats amazing!

I would have to agree.

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excellent

Damn shit! The detail and mood in this are amazing!! You really should be very proud of this, nice work!

Very impressive. I didn't think matte painting necessarily included photographs, though? I mean, I suppose they CAN but that's not technically what they ARE, right?

Traditionally matte painting doesn't use photos but these days it's pretty standard cos it lets the artist work faster and with more depth than they would otherwise be able to.

Ahhhh. Yeah, I s'pose that makes sense.

Then again, traditional matte paintings were on glass. Digital, slowly eroding the need for traditional art... XD

Unless, of course, you have one totally badass color printer. 'Honey, can you drop another section of windowpane in the print bypass tray for me? I've got to get this matte painting out.'

I've seen machines that can print onto glass, but it's easyer and cheaper to print on to plastic and stick it to the glass.

That is a really neat outcome, beautiful architecture.

London?

Venice, or a dark alternate Venice at least :)

Very nicely done!

Now what's photograph and what's digitally created? I can't see a transition!

Hella nice =D

What software are you using for this? I'm assuming photoshop since everybody seems to use that for photomanips, but I can't guess at the painting package =? I'd love to know!

Also, I notice the Dark World 1 part - does this mean that it's part of a series? Here's hoping! =D

I did this purely in photoshop, for this sort of thing I found it was easiest to have the manipulation and paint in tools all in the same place, though I could possibly have done the painted bit better with a separate program. I keep meaning to try out some sort of painting package but i've yet to find one I really like.

While I was getting stock photos for this I ended up with a load of Venice scenes and such so I may do a couple more of these; scenes from different parts of the city and that sort of thing :)

Excellent - and it surely can't be just me that thinks this would make brilliant inspiration for a novel or comic book =P

This is.....amazing. I am in awe of how much detail is in this picture. It's incredible.

i no this is a bit late but....
wow this is epic