Environment concept iterations
Take one environment from a gray sketch to a detailed matte painting, then iterate weather, time of day and camera angle in the same world.
How it works
- 1
Sketch the scene
Composition and key shapes in grayscale.
- 2
Overpaint to a matte painting
Mirva details materials, water and light, keeping the shapes and composition.
- 3
Iterate weather and light
Storms, rain, night or dusk — the scene stays the same place.
- 4
Move the camera
New angles and a bird’s-eye view of the same village.
The whole run
Related workflows
Color grading
Grade one finished image into several moods — overcast, golden hour, cold morning, abandoned — without touching the composition.
Side-scroller game backgrounds
Turn a flat gray block-in into a painted side-scroller background, then extend it and generate lighting variants for other levels.
3D blockout to final render
Start from a gray-box 3D scene, render it as concept art, then mark changes in color and re-render only what you marked.