Here's the screwdriver model from the tutorial. It wasn't too difficult, just creating some cylinders, editing some vertices, smoothing, and then the horrible booleans. The booleans decided to be really difficult with me and not work but finally I tried smoothing the screwdriver only once and then it worked for some reason (I guess Maya is just weird). Anyway, here's the screwdriver!
Above are my the far, medium, and close shots of my alley scene after finishing lesson 2 in the book. I mostly added doors, windows, oil barrels, improved the lamp, and added window sill boxes to some of the windows.
These are the shots of the alley scene. The top one is the far shot, the middle one is the medium shot, and the bottom one is the close shot focused on the street lamp.
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Here's my matte painting. I have to say the hardest parts of this tutorial would probably be getting rid of the palm tree and then breaking things and making it look all dirty. To get rid of the palm tree, I used the clone stamp tool and reflected the curved window on the right over to the left side to replace the palm tree. To make the house dirty, I just followed their steps. I also added a pattern overlay to the grunge layers and put the pattern overlay on Multiply blending mode to give it some more texture. Below is the original mansion.
Here's my Google Maps parody tutorial picture. I pretty much just used the techniques talked about in the tutorial, which was mostly just selecting stuff, changing the hue/saturation, and whatnot. The only thing that was different was that I had to change a few things such as brush sizes when I did mine because the image I used was smaller than the one in the tutorial.
