matte painting

I was working on Matte Painting over this week... It is getting there...
I also worked on test animation of brush strokes and inks in AE.

Who's done this

Christina showed me this cool movie last week.
http://www.youtube.com//player2.swf?video_id=LKFKxfL7tV4&l=469&t=OEgsToPDskK6kkSzKAGu95MvTqypeSvX
This looks done by 3D, so I cannot make look like this :( but I would like to refer to this, in terms of the "look".
Thanks Christina!!

3D modeling

The big file size issue of my modeling file is half solved by deleting warning nodes (Thank you Prof. Halbstein! It was my tower modeling.) So I spent time to clean up the files, and I didn't realize this takes that long...
I think whole "clean-up work" reduced the render time, but I think all the trees takes render time for a long, my computer may not be able to render mental ray... not sure...

For now I start camera movement experiments with animatic/sketchy(?) sound.
The piece I refer to camera movement is this Nike AD