These stadiums were painted for Madden NFL 09 intro screens. We did a day and a night version for each stadium. Unfortunately, I didn't get to do the night one for the Cardinals, which is one of my favorites because it looks like a UFO. These images are more like matte paintings in that elements of photos were used, but there was also a good deal of painting into them. We started with a 3D render of the stadium as a guide. The parking lot and street had to be in the same location.
If you fire up the game and watch the intro, there is actually a camera move, which was done by projecting our paintings onto geometry to get realistic parallaxing. I think they turned out pretty nice, considering we only intended for them to be static 2D images to begin with...
These took 3 days each. The Colts stadium was particularly interesting because it was not completed when I had to do the painting. I used whatever reference of the building plans I could find on the internet, so it may not be 100% accurate.
I got a lot better at painting windows by the end of the 32-stadium project (64 paintings), even though I only did 13 of them.
2 comments:
you know i think you're amazing.
Man, that is some seriously cool stuff Matt. One of the teens in our ministry is hooked on Madden 09. I'll have to let him know I'm friends with one of the guys that made the game he loves.
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