From the course: The Making of Amsterdam Mist: The Structures

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Creating the effect of mineral deposits on the bridge

Creating the effect of mineral deposits on the bridge

From the course: The Making of Amsterdam Mist: The Structures

Creating the effect of mineral deposits on the bridge

And looking at the original photograph that was the inspiration for the Amsterdam scene, we look at that bridge in the distance. And we come in close and we see this white stuff. We can't really tell what the bridge is made of at all. We can't see anything of what the bridge is made of. It's just this blur back there with this white stuff on it. Well, thanks to Google Street View, I took some nice close up shots. So here they are. And all I did was just travel to a little piece in the block and look at the bridge. And there we can see that first of all it's made of bricks. We can kind of see the bricks there a little bit. And there's that white stuff. Doesn't tell us what it is, but there's this white stuff. So let's go back and look at the actual art. There's the file of the bridge itself. Every element was created in its own file so that I can have all the necessary layers. You see there's quite a few layers that make it up. And some of these are closed, because open these up and…

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