Take One Painting is the project that I've been doing in National Film and Television School for months since the very beginning of the course MA Digital Effects I took this year.
The aim is to build 3D extension (both interior and exterior) set to match the historical background of the painting A GAME OF 'TRIC TRAC' - Johannes Anthonie Balthasar Stroebel, including furnishing and architectural detail. In collaboration with design & cinematography students, I am able to present my 3D models, and recreate the lighting of the set for the short piece of action. And then all the assets were combined with the final footage, with clean-ups, tracking CG movements and adding blur and noise effects with the software Nuke.
Here are some ideas about how I managed to do this.
The Painting & Early Stage Ideas
Reference Images for the Exterior Buildings
The one on the left is Grote Markt in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
The one on the right is a sketch from Pinterest.
Interior & Details
Final Shot
