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I've been studying digital matte painting and concept design. My mentor is Christian Lorenz Scheurer via his Gnomon Workshop training DVDs. After the third lession I painted this concept design for a bombed out city. this is what the Art Director might show the director before doing a full-on matte painting. It has almost 50 layers (some of which have been merged along the way.) I used just about every tool in Photoshop to achieve the effects. I know it's not ready for Hollywood, but I've enjoyed learning the techniques which are now to be perfected. Some of the buildings are painted using selections which then have gradients applied, the lights are grabbed from different photos I started with a very mundane shot of a Tokyo suburb which served to set up perspective and provided a few of the background buildings and some starting light values. I incorporated all sorts of bizare images from bridge structures, to a cruse ship, Air craft carrier bridge, motor cycle parts and pieces of a robot, and a gantry from the space center. Hopefully you'll get a kick out of it.