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	Siggraph 1998 - Matte Painting in the Digital Age
		Matte World specializes in digital matte painting and realistic computer-generated 3-D environments for feature films.
		We are now seeing the matte painting shots that created this interior, but I'm not going to point them out to you until after the clip is finished.
		For those of you unfamiliar with matte paintings, they are, in simple terms, paintings of environments on glass that are combined with the filmed actors to complete scenes that don't really exist.
	www.matteworld.com /projects/siggraph01.html (359 words)

	The Ring
		Matte World Digital was commissioned to create both 2D and 3D matte paintings for the Dreamworks film "THE RING".
		In this 3D matte painting, the foreground rocks in the image above is a plate shot on the Oregon coast, the rest of the island, lighthouse and sky are painted.
		Here, most of the island is a 3D matte painting with the exception of the water.
	www.matteworld.com /film/2002/ring.html (277 words)

	sto.pp \| stockholm postproduction film video television post production showreel
		While creating the matte paintings and backgrounds behind the characters in the spots, sto.pp used a combination of material given to them by Kouthoofd and some they developed themselves.
		They made a matte painting of the space environment and built the earth in 3D to be able to do the massive zoom that the client wanted.
		The team did the zoom on the 3D Globe with about ten matte paintings projected; this allowed them to keep the high level of detail throughout the entire shot.
	www.stopost.se /news/newsarticle.asp?id=64 (445 words)

	ALP ALTINER: Matte Painting
		I did various concept art, matte paintings, and ZBrush creature modeling for this movie.
		I did various matte paintings for this movie at Rhythm and Hues Visual FX.
		I worked as the Matte Paintign supervisor at Morgan Creek, and created various concept art, matte paintings, and 3D projections for this move.
	www.alpaltiner.com /mattepainting.php (319 words)

	Ron Crabb Matte Painting
		Matte Painting is the art of creating scenes for film or video that would otherwise be too expensive to build as a set or would indeed be outright impossible, (panoramic historical, science fiction and surreal scenes).
		A matte painting can be as simple as adding snow to an existing shot, changing a scene from day to night, extending existing sets, or it can be an extremely complex, multi-planed, full frame matte painting.
		Mattes used to be done by painting onto glass and then were photographically composited together with filmed elements.
	www.crabbdigital.com /Pages/Information/Matte1.html (205 words)

	davidluong.net \| Digital Matte Painting Section
		Digital matte painting, also known as matte painting, is done mostly on the computer and / or with reference pictures instead because of the ease and efficiency of doing it digitally.
		The overpass matte painting was done to show the band walking on it towards a city of more corporate nature, where things are cleaner, and where they will rage against the machine.
		It was real fun working on these matte paintings though, and a great treat to try to matte paint the emotions I felt when I saw the original matte paintings by the ILM crew of Michael Pangrazio, Chris Evans, Craig Barron, Caroleen Green, Frank Oz, and Jim Danforth's masterpieces in the original Neverending Story film.
	www.davidluong.net /subpages/mattepainting.html (1833 words)

	Welcome to Ballistic Publishing
		d'artiste: Matte Painting showcases the skills and techniques of leading Hollywood matte painters Alp Altiner, Dylan Cole and Chris Stoski.
		In over 70 pages of detailed tutorial this book takes readers through the matte painting techniques used to create breathtaking, photo-realistic sets and backdrops for films including ‘Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith’ and the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy.
		Added to personal and invited artist galleries presenting over 80 perfectly reproduced environmental backdrops this book is for film enthusiasts and artists alike.
	www.ballisticpublishing.com /books/dartiste_matte_painting (136 words)

	Matte Paintings - GFXartist.com - Served over 20,000,000 artworks
		Matte paintings are digitally altered collages of photographs, with painting thrown in (sometimes), that act as backdrops to live action scenes.
		Matte painting is simply any painting used as a background in a film shot.
		A "matte" is a film element that does the same basic job for film as an "alpha channel" or a "key" does for digital images.
	www.gfxartist.com /community/forum/77486 (584 words)

	JAIC 1993, Volume 32, Number 2, Article 4 (pp. 129 to 139)
		This is the case with the 33 paintings in the dining room of the Florence Griswold House.
		This glossiness helps to confirm what Dennis described: that the look of the paintings when they were new may have been glossier than is now seen and that a proportion of the matteness of unvarnished paintings may come from an accumulation of grime and from deterioration of their surfaces.
		Many of Twachtman's paintings of this period are matte, but the exact degree of matteness intended by the artist is difficult to judge 100 years after they were painted.
	aic.stanford.edu /jaic/articles/jaic32-02-004_4.html (1486 words)

	Max Gabl (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The picture on top shows the finished matte painting, the lower right picture shows a detail of it, and the lower left pic shows the photo before it was painted over.
		The picture on top shows the finished matte painting, the lower right picture shows a detail of it, and the lower left pic shows the photo before it was painted over (mouse over to reveal the painting).
		The picture on top shows the plate (before painting), the lower left picture shows the finished matte painting, and the lower right pic shows a detail, that was painted from memory.
	www.maxgabl.com /Matte_Paintings.html (867 words)

	Matte Painting Production Techniques
		Chris Stoski is one of the leading matte painters in the industry, having authored many rich digital environments in recent films while at ILM and Matte World Digital.
		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.
		From painting and image manipulation in Adobe Photoshop® to 3D particle-system waterfalls and animated vegetation blowing in the wind, this DVD offers a complete spectrum of knowledge for the beginner to intermediate matte painter.
	www.thegnomonworkshop.com /dvds/cst01.html (316 words)

	Welcome to CG Channel
		Since, I have found that Matte Painting is fundamentally the same for live action and 3D Animation.
		The largest and most intensive matte painting done by Jett Green and Scott Brisbane was the one where our stars, Roddy and Rita, float up and over London using a plastic bag.
		The painting was done orthographically like traditional 2D Animated films as we had a limited time to create this 800 frame matte painting.
	www.cgchannel.com /news/viewfeature.jsp?newsid=5711 (616 words)

	CFX - CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK
		We were commissioned to create 5 establishing 2D multi-layered matte paintings of destroyed cityscapes.
		We did a considerable amount of mood and layout design before the actual execution of the matte paintings.
		The paintings were executed in 6 - 8 K resolution to facilitate the camera moves of the shots.
	www.christovfx.com /chronicles_of_riddick_1.html (90 words)

	matte artist
		There are some other excellent web pages dedicated to digital matte paintings like www.mattepainting.org.
		Some of them with full dedication to the art of matte paintings during his careers, like Peter Ellenshaw, some others only painted mattes at some moment oh his career, like animator Willis Obrien, or art director and sketch artist Ivor Beddoes.
		If you have pictures of matte artists and you want to share it, please send it to me. I will be happy to place it here.
	es.geocities.com /chominart/matteartist.html (421 words)

	CGProShop - d'artiste: Matte Painting
		Matte Painting work for sequences in ‘Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith' feature prominently, as does an impressive painting for the ‘Lord of the Rings' trilogy.
		Complementing each artist's master class tutorials are numerous digital matte paintings personally selected by the authors for critique and commentary.
		Alp is currently a freelance visual effects and visual development artist specializing in concept art, matte painting and 3D modeling, texturing and lighting work for film, television and video games.
	store.cgsociety.org /product/000130 (732 words)

	fxguide - vfx knowledge - Matte Painting Part 2: The Tools
		A little while ago when fxguide asked senior matte painter Craig Mullins if he had any advice on matte paintings he replied "Not sure how to help you, but I would suggest looking at life and master paintings.
		Stay away from illustrators (myself included) and photos!" So rather than discussing the art of matte painting this week we decided to have a look at two of the more commonly used tools for digital matte painting (or digi-matte).
		Artistically, matte painting is closely related to concept art, (a point we will discuss more in part 3 of our series next week with LOTR Senior Paint Painter: Wayne Haag), but in this week's podcast above we speak to an artist who does both concept art and matte painting in the games environment, Gerhard Mozsi.
	www.fxguide.com /article328.html (954 words)

	Graphics.com: The shared resource for creative design
		Before the development of digital technologies, matte painting was a technique that was reserved for glass artists.
		Among the many special effects techniques that are used in the film industry, matte painting is the cheapest solution.
		I was entrusted with the creation of three matte paintings, one of which was to represent a night vision of an abandoned church, with a cemetery in the foreground.
	www.graphics.com /modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=190 (657 words)

	Matte Painting - GFXartist.com - Served over 20,000,000 artworks
		What I have always wanted to do, ever since I was a kid, was be a professional illustrator doing matte paintings, concepts and the like.
		It has only been recently - in the past 3 years or so - that the computer has made it faster and easier to create quality stuff for people that have the talent to use the tool (computer) as well as general artistic talent.
		As a kid I always loved fantasy art books that had pics of cities that had been wiped out and forests or jungles were growing in and around them and the buildings were destroyed.
	www.gfxartist.com /community/forum/80788 (481 words)

	fxguide - vfx knowledge - Matte Painting Part 4: The future of matte painting
		Matte painters that have both the 2D traditional skill (concept art, matte paintings) and the technical 3D skill, will combine both knowledge to create environments that we can fly trough." He explains.
		Alp is currently working in Hollywood on a soon to be released, major hollywood blockbuster: Xmen 3, in which he is again combining 3D with digital painting to produce final shots.
		Camera projection is a common tool and technique bridging 2d matte paintings into a 3D world.
	www.fxguide.com /article334.html (938 words)

	Superman IV: Production/f/x/Harrison Ellenshaw interview part2
		It was somewhat nostalgic for him, considering he had worked just down the road at the old MGM studios forty years earlier, when he did the matte paintings on Quo Vadis.
		Although he was [and probably still is] a great storyboard artist and comic strip cartoonist, he wanted to get into matte painting; expanding his skills and providing another way to hopefully attract work to the U.K. effects business.
		In fact it seems most of the matte shots for SUPERMAN IV were in the parts of the film that eventually got cut from the 134-minute version.
	www.supermancinema.co.uk /superman4/s4_production/special_effects/ellenshaw_interview2/page4.htm (564 words)

	The Render Node Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I was first exposed to matte paintings in the art of Star Wars books, where I fell in love with Michael Pangrazio's work, as well as that of Chris Evans and Frank Ordaz.
		One of those was a Rivendell painting that was barely seen but a lot of fun to paint.
		For those curvy paintings, it is a bit of trial and error and a lot of cheating.
	www.rendernode.com /articles.php?articleId=216 (1569 words)

	Digital Magic - Matte Painting
		Trilogy, matte paintings were created on large panes of glass for compositing live action elements with still imagery.
		Chris Evans is scraping away portions of his painting to allow live action footage to be placed in areas of the glass.
		Since we now understand what matte paintings are, how they are used for film, and the process of the latent image vs the background, it is time to
	www.angelfire.com /scifi2/valaryc/Matte_Painting.html (664 words)

	Matte Paintings - Outside Hollywood
		Now that we’ve covered basic compositing enhancements and sky replacements, let’s move on to matte paintings, which are the first visual effects ever documented, and have been used almost as long as movies have existed.
		These paintings could then be attached to the front of the camera, or superimposed onto the film later.
		Often the lower story of a historic building would be built, with the rest painted to carefully match the perspective and lighting of the shot.
	www.outside-hollywood.com /2005/12/matte-paintings (461 words)

	Christopher G. Stoski / Digital Matte Artist (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The shot is a 3D matte painting that reveals much of the surrounding city as the camera flies around the Naboo Skiff spaceship.
		For this shot we created several matte paintings that were stitched together in various ways to result in the entire environment.
		I painted this portion of the matte painting by assembling 3d models of Coruscant city buildings and creating many different render passes.
	home.comcast.net /~cstoski/starwars_01.html (548 words)

	: The Art of Invisible Matte Paintings
		When Sullivan painted in the skyscrapers in the background he cheated reality, because as every Angeleno knows, the docks of L.A. Harbor aren't next to the tall buildings of downtown.
		To Rocco a shot that stands out as being a matte is either a poorly designed shot, or one in which the subject matter is too incredible to be real.
		Either way the matte painter must fight an uphill battle, against designs that aren't going to convince no matter how well they are executed.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s10mattes.html (408 words)

	Archfilm :: Article from DigitalProducer.com
		By that I mean backdrops for live plays, etc. Matte painting for film was first done on very large pieces of glass, and filled in the areas of background that would have been too expensive or too difficult to film.
		The areas that were to be painted were covered over by fl matte board, placed directly in front of the camera (hence the name).
		This allowed digital matte painters greater flexibility in their approaches, and the incorporation of projected matte paintings (a painting mapped onto simple geometry to give a better illusion of movement and depth, as pioneered by Yusei Uesugi of ILM).
	www.archfilm.net /dp4.htm (456 words)

	VFX HQ: STARSHIP TROOPERS: REVIEW page 3
		The matte paintings for the film were created by Mark Sullivan and his company Compound Eye, and in some cases were used as elements composited by other houses.
		Nearly all the other matte shots are stunning in their own right - the 'after' shot of Buenos Aires, after the destruction of the city, is mind bogglingly pretty.
		But probably the most dramatic of all the matte paintings is also one of the most invisible.
	www.vfxhq.com /1997/starship-review3.html (560 words)

	JoBlo's Movie Club - Fuck Blue Screen & CGI...give me MATTE PAINTINGS!!!
		Matte paintings and such are very useful, but movies like Lord of the Rings and Minority Report wouldn't be possible without CGI.
		I always find it funny when people call CGI fake, when a typical matte painting looks fake and a stop motion puppet or creatures "animated" in look just as fake.
		If I were to choose between CGI and a matte painting/stop motion puppet, I'd go with the CGI.
	www.joblo.com /forums/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&threadid=77623 (2075 words)

	Steve Wright Digital FX \| Visual Effects Training
		The primary topics were advanced bluescreen and greenscreen matte extraction, despill operations, as well as the proper procedures for compositing with log images.
		How to combine log images with cgi and digital matte paintings were also covered as well as the proper procedures for working with premultiplied and unpremultiplied cgi.
		Match move techniques and 2D motion tracking were successfully used to add matte paintings to the shots in spite of their energetic camera moves.
	www.swdfx.com /about/training.php (1218 words)

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