Patreon video - Episode 10 - How I Paint Clouds
Added 2020-09-08 11:05:21 +0000 UTCI have been working hard on a game trailer for a friends game company where I have had to paint a bunch of clouds backgrounds as the game is set in the skies, featuring airplanes. I thought it would be cool to just give you a quick demo of how I go about blocking out some cloud shapes in a relatively short period of time.
As I say in the video, clouds can really help to shape a composition and allow us to lead the viewers eyes where we want to.
Here are a few cloud backgrounds I have had to paint for the trailer. Many of these are backdrops in 3D scenes, so I have made them wider so that the camera can pan across them.
The trailer still has a lot of work left to it but hopefully I will be able to share more details further down the line. Possibly do some scene breakdowns etc.
Hope the video was useful. There are hundreds of ways to approach painting clouds. All these are pretty much stuck to the horizon. Something to explore as well would be to create a overcast type of cloud cover where the clouds come in from above the camera and covers most of the sky.
