Matte_painting

Matte paintings are used to create "virtual sets" and "digital backlots". They can be used to create entire new sets, or to extend portions of an existing set. Traditional matte painting is done optically, by painting on top of a piece of glass to be composited with the original footage. However, this trick is as old as Film itself (circa 1911).The nearly first Matte Painting was 1907 by Norman A. Dawn (ASC),who painted for the movie "Missions of California".

Originally, matte paintings were painted on glass plates, earlier also named glasshot. Two plates of glass are set up parallel to each other at a certain distance. The camera is set up in front of them. On the rear plate, there is a background landscape which is relatively rough, for example a painted Jungle. On the foreground plate, detail-rich elements are painted such as small plants, stones etc. Between the glass plates, one could then encourage a puppet in stop-motion. Nowadays, matte painting is done in computers with the use of a tablet as a drawing device. In a digital environment, matte paintings can also be done in a 3-D environment, allowing for 3-D camera movements.[1] The first film to use a digital matte painting was Die Hard 2: Die Harder. It was used during the last scene, which took place on an airport runway.

Books

• Mark Cotta Vaz; Craig Barron: The invisible art : the legends of movie matte painting. San Francisco, Cal.: Chronicle Books, 2002; ISBN 0-8118-3136-1

• Peter Ellenshaw; Ellenshaw Under Glass - Going to the Matte for Disney

Important Matte Painter Artist

• Peter Ellenshaw
• Albert Whitlock

External links

• "Matte Painting in the Digital Age" (presentation from 1998)
• Matte painting series at fxguide.com
• some infos and examples of matte Painting

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