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Hello all, I have been browsing these forums for years, but only recently signed as an official member. I am freelancing in visualisation and image-making, and you can see some of my work so far here: www.edgargeorge.com Anyway, I have a new potential client who is keen to produce some imagery that avoids the photorealistic rendering style that is so prevalent. They want something that has a more work-in-progress and sketchy/collage feel to it, maybe incorporating hand-sketched overlays as textures. I am curious as to whether anyone has produced work in a similar style, or come across any precedents in the past. Many thanks in advance! Douglas

I don't call them that...but it's term frequently used on this forum. Well, first look at these new WONDERFUL!! images from MIR. Stunning isn't it ? I loved them before, but now I am simply fascinated. Except for Architecture itself, almost ZERO 3D was used. And the result is fantastic, it's not unfinished, blurry like Luxigon and alikes, it's just...like perfectly painted picture. Not to be a copycat....but we are all copycats to certain extent in this industry, I decided to learn this properly. There are literally thousands tutorials for modelling,rendering...but like ZERO for quality collage or photomanipulation intended for archviz. I am sure matte paintings techniques are the same, but still. What good tutorials do you guys know about ? Or which matte painting tutorials seems to be the best ? The Gnomon ones.. ? and which ? Second question, where would one start building photo collection, references, etc... all the photo banks are absurdly overpriced (in my opinion, please, don't discuss this topic, edit = ).... ) Apart from cgtextures, texturepilot, what are some good places ? Lastly, how do guys feels about those pictures ?