Castle Matte Painting

This is a matte painting of a middle ages castle I built for a demonstration of real-time virtual/real camera sync. The 2nd part of the demo needed a matte painting to show real time camera-pan , zoom and DOF simulation sync so I came up with this one. I used a 3d castle model and used different techniques to render the painted environment to be reflected on the 3d water & castle. The matte features moving water, castle flags, village smoke and a simple sky slide inside a traditional colored paint style work. May be one day I rebuild the work to give it a more film-like style look. The video used on the demo was 2500 pixels wide.