Making of Worship: Digital Painting Tutorial

Making of Worship | Painting.DTuts - Free Tutorials by Digital Painting and Mattepainting

I'm finding that as I complete my storyboard that I really need to work on my environment art skills. Although limited animation often uses simplified or abstract backgrounds I feel the environments will be important to enhance the atmosphere. I am considering the possibility of using photographs altered in Photoshop as I've seen this used in stuff like the Gorillaz videos to good effect although I haven't made a decision. This is a decent tutorial which breaks the scene down into shapes and basic shades :)