This is my entry for the first unofficial CGTalk Matte Painting Challenge.
I tried to capture a mystic mood putting atlantis into this underwater cave with some lightrays coming through an entrance. The hole in the cave's ceiling was caused by an eruption of a nearby vulcano, which lead to the revelation of atlantis.
The city was painted alive to give the image some more interest.

About 60% of this Matte are painted or at least painted over. A special quest was to get the tower in the right foreground to look similar to the ones in the background giving the whole image some scale.


Here's the Link to the sketches and process:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=379562&page=1



Crits please