Matte Painting Compositing

In this case the matte is the background painting.

Matte painting compositing. Strictly speaking a matte painting is an image created using digital or traditional painting techniques to create a representation of a scene that would be impossible for filmmakers to deliver in real life. A scenic vista or a starfield with planets. Matte painting background painting is a technique which makes it possible to create without great difficulty non existent scenarios that are difficult to reach or are too expensive to build. This tutorial predates mocha hitfilm so the camera solve was in pfhoe.

A matte painting is often a painted glass pane that is used to show a landscape or large set piece. We use png files without a background so we skip the boring part. Mattes are used in photography and special effects filmmaking to combine two or more image elements into a single final image. From different photos we are going to create a matte painting without doing the boring part of cutting out images.

Matte paintings are either filmed on set where they are framed to look like a physical set piece or they are combined with live footage in post production. Throughout the lecture he describes his techniques and relates his experiences designing shots for feature films and executing them as final matte paintings. Usually mattes are used to combine a foreground image eg. Actors on a set or a spaceship with a background image eg.

It involves 2d matte painting creation green screen footage keying 3d particle systems for fog and snow final compositing. Join zenja as he shares his process of creating digital artwork from regular photos. Compositing is the combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images often to create the illusion that all those elements are parts of the same scenelive action shooting for compositing is variously called chroma key blue screen green screen and other namestoday most though not all compositing is achieved through digital image manipulation. He illustrates how a matte artist utilizes 3d modeling texturing lighting photographic reference materials and digital painting to complete a beautiful and efficient matte painting.