After over a year of working on the visual development of The Super Mario Movie with an absolutely amazing team, I am now very much looking forward to seeing the movie next year :
Illumination / Mac Guff have produced a real love letter to the Mario universe, and I am very happy and honored to have participated in it.Thanks to Jessica, Fabien, Guillaume, Brice, JB and my Umeshu Lovers team for this adventure which is not quite over yet.
Hills, lakes and... cows in the amazing paintings of Alfred Fontville de Breanski (1877-1957)
Panoramic backgrounds from Pom Poko (Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko, 1994, Studio Ghibli)
Refreshing compositions by Hiroyuki Izutsu (@izu2) : https://behance.net/izutsu
Backgrounds by Julien De Man from "La Famosa Invasione Degli Orsi In Sicilia" (2019, Prima Linea Production) : http://www.juliendeman.com/index.php/animation/la-fameuse-invasions-des-ours-en-sicile/
More inspiration and references on my twitter and FB account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh & https://www.facebook.com/TohadChaos
Have a great week folks!
If you want to know how to quickly create a vegetal scenery using some masked assets, watch this short tutorial !
You'll see how to put together the PNGs and recreate the depth of field in the composition.
This image was done by Johanna Capelle (my partner on the Pixelref resource library) on Photoshop using painted cutouts of the painting pack "Spring Wild Herbs Cutout" that you can find on my Artstation store. The pack contains +110 wild grasses and flowers colored cutouts, custom shapes, PNGs silhouettes and the layered PSD of this artwork!
Have a good summer day folks !
The colorful compositions of Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé (1874 – 1939)
Concept art from Astérix le Domaine des Dieux by Daniel Cacouault (Astérix and the Mansion of the Gods, 2014 Mikros Image Animation)
https://danielcacouaultsblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/i-hate-neverending-blogs.html
Backgrounds from Playmobil The Movie by Geoffroy Thoorens : http://djahalland.com/playmobil-the-movie (2019, ON Animation Studios)
More inspiration and references on my Twitter & Facebook accounts
Have a great week folks!
If you want to know the big steps and the tweaks I use to do the "Green Heart" artwork using traditional & digital painted assets, you can watch this short tutorial ! You'll see how to put together the PNGs in an harmonious composition.
This image was done in 4 hours with Photoshop using masked rocks of the Pixelref traditional paintings pack "BARE ROCKS MOSS CUTOUT". The pack contains 170+ high resolution masked rocks and the layered PSD of this artwork!
Art poster version of "GREEN HEART" available on my shop
"BARE ROCKS MOSS" cutout pack available on my shop
Backgrounds from Love, Death & Robots : ZIMA BLUE by @robhrr : https://artstation.com/artwork/RYzkPX
Various cartoon backgrounds by Paul Julian (1914–1995):
Backgrounds from Aladdin (Disney studios, 1992) :
More inspiration and references on my twitter and FB account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh & https://www.facebook.com/TohadChaos
Have a great week folks!
Backgrounds from Kiki's Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便, Majo no Takkyūbin, 1989 Studio Ghibli, art direction Hiroshi Ohno) :
The parallel universe of Dan McPharlin : http://danmcpharlin.net
The sens of scale and the soft colors of Matt Rockefeller : http://mattrockefeller.com
Have you seen the new photo reference pack released on my store?
A panel of flowery long grasses, perfect to create a vegetal first plan or a green expanse in a scenery 🌾
The variety of plant species and their shape language will allow you to give an elegant organic life to your green artworks!
More inspiration and references on my twitter and FB account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh & https://www.facebook.com/TohadChaos
Have a great week folks!
If you want to know how to quickly create a photobash landscape scenery using some cut out photos, watch this short tutorial !
You'll see how to put together the PNGs and recreate the depth of field in the composition.
This image was done by Johanna Capelle on Photoshop using masked rocks of the Pixelref photo pack "Brittany Rock Mass Cutout" that you can find on my Artstation store. The pack contains +180 PNGs, +60 JPGs and the layered PSD of this artwork!
> Brittany Rock Mass Cutout pack <
10 minutes speed painting to show to my apprentices a process to express reflections on windows in 4 key steps.
Step 1 - Create the scenography behind window (inside the building)
Step 3 - Use inverted selection of the previous layer to paint the reflects with a light color and reduce its opacity
Step 4 - Paint the building's facade and details of the dropped shadows
To create the vegetal reflection you can use the brushes I propose in the mega pack DECIDUOUS TREE CUTOUT & PLANT BRUSH on my store! I offer you 50% OFF using coupon TIPSTRICKS02 until the end of the week :D
In case you missed that here are the previous Tips & Tricks tutorial posts :
How to paint a snowy peak in less than 10 minutes
Enjoy !
Concept art from Ratatouille by Dominique Louis (2007, Pixar)
The elegant compositions of QU Lan : https://qu-lan.tumblr.co
A walk in the William Herbert Dunton's woods (1878–1936) :
Have you seen the new photo reference pack released on my store?
A wide range of masked rock masses & promontories captured during a marvelous walk along the Brittany coast ! You’ll find masked eroded blocks perfect to be quickly integrated in your illustration or matte painting.
BRITTANY ROCK MASS CUTOUT - Photo reference pack - 180+ PNG & 1 bonus PSD & 60 FREE JPG
Enjoy 20% DISCOUNT until Feb 2, 2022 using the coupon : BRITTANYROCKMASS20
More inspiration and references on my twitter and FB account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh& https://www.facebook.com/TohadChaos
Have a great week folks!
