A little bit of Freelance work

A friend approached me to do some compositing work for the Junior Law Division that she sits on the board of. The society was having a Law Ball at the end of October and asked me to create a 1940’s backdrop for the band at the ball.

I decided to create something digitally rather than in paint as I was more confident of a professional outcome, even though I do have some painting skills from my Art A Level.

I received some reference material to give me an idea of the style that was required. I then went out and photographed iconic buildings in Sheffield as they wanted the backdrop to be a kind of skyline of Sheffield, like the ones that are frequently produced for the New York skyline.

With all the photographs, I edited them and composited them together with some effects and colour grading to create the final back drop.

I was told that everyone loved the back drop at the event and I even had some orders for more, smaller copies for people to keep which was great and enabled me to make a little bit of money along with the money that I was paid by the society to do the original work.

The final back drop below: