Assignment: Create Your Own City

Now that you’ve tried the process of working over a moving plate with a demo file, it’s time for you to create your own vision of a futuristic city. You should not change the color or tone of the moving plate, but make your painted additions seamlessly meld with what is already there. The final file should contain these basic elements, all of which you learned to set up in this chapter:

  • Five or more different sections of buildings spread throughout the composition. The background should be filled with megastructures.
  • An element that flies over the city, emitting a pulsing light: a floating megastructure, an air car, or a spaceship.
  • A moving billboard that you can attach to the side of one of the buildings.

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