| Short Term Courses - Matte Painting And Digital Set | | | | high-res matte painting is started and soon it moves |
| Creation | | | | on to pre-comps and the final composite. Usually the |
| Duration : 6 Months / 8 Hrs. a week | | | | Compositor (sometimes the Matte Artist) will wedge |
| A matte painting is a painted representation of a | | | | the shot and in conjunction with the Visual Effects |
| landscape, set, or distant location that allows | | | | Supervisor, choose final values. Then the shot is |
| filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment | | | | filmed-out and ultimately approved by the Director. |
| that would otherwise be too expensive to build or | | | | Designing a rough layout in Photoshop : Most film |
| visit. Historically, matte painters and film technicians | | | | work is done in an aspect ratio of eit her 2.35 or 1.85. |
| have used various techniques to combine a | | | | Start from a roug h line drawing. Start from a roug h |
| matte-painted image with live-action footage. At its | | | | line drawing. |
| best, depending on the skill levels of the artists and | | | | Importing and manuplating photo scrap : Start out by |
| technicians, the effect is "seamless" and creates | | | | importing your first image and using this image as |
| environments that would otherwise be impossible to | | | | your base for the color palette of the rendering. |
| film. | | | | Creating CG elements : Often architectural elements |
| Curriculam | | | | are created with CG models for matte paintings. The |
| Matte Painting fundamentals : The typical lifespan of a | | | | artist can then paint on top of the CG render and |
| matte painting starts with concept art and a plate, | | | | implement different painting techniques throughout |
| then proceeds through the approval and the animatic | | | | the creation of the matte painting. |
| (rough animation visualization) stages. Next the | | | | |