From the course: Matte Painting: Environments for Film

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Key art: Final touches

Key art: Final touches

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Key art: Final touches

- [Instructor] I've noticed that we have all of our mountains in place, but we're missing some distant mountains. Something in between what we see here and the sky. So I've decided to place another sort of distant mountain layer in there. And the reason for that is because it just looks empty. It looks like there's nothing between here and there, and no connection, as well as it breaks the realism, or the idea of the receding into the horizon. Plus, there's nothing leading the eye to the horizon, which seems to be up here somewhere at the moment. So let's do that. And so we can do that by going to open that HDRI file, the HDRI panorama. Let's open that up as a transparency, and we can use these mountains as our background mountains. Now, if you want to cut them out, of course, 'cause they seem to be flattened with the sky, you can press the Magic Wand tool. The Magic Wand tool doesn't work with 32-bit image, I believe, so we have to convert it. And if you convert it from 32 to 16 or…

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