Iron Sky 2 Concept Art and Matte Paintings

_ Project

Iron Sky 2 - The Coming Race

_ Year

2015 / 2016

_ Category

Feature Film
Concept Art
Matte Painting

_ Details

These are some of the concepts and matte paintings for Iron Sky 2, which I created as part of the Pixomondo environment team. Copyright Universal, Pixomondo or their respective owners.

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Still frame out of the movie with my matte painting of Agartha in the background

Final shot with my matte painting in the background. I modeled the projection geometry and projected my layered matte painting of the background environment on top in Nuke.

My role in this Iron Sky 2 Agartha shot: Creating the layered matte painting of the far background and sky and project it on the geometry. The rest was done by the 3D environment team and compositing.

Making of - Layer breakdown of this shot

For this shot I created the concepts, the matte painting and the layered projection, so the clouds had parallax effects with the slight camera move and they could be warped in compositing.

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Final matte painting

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Concept Art and atmosphere variation for this shot

This is a bonus shot, as it was only created for the crowdfunding trailer. The foreground 3D elements were created by Falk Boje. I created the complete matte painting background. Then there was some comp magic and bird animations by the compositor.