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Concepts
Lesson 1 of 4 Intro to Matte Painting
It all starts with a sketch. Follow along as Maxx demonstrates the earliest steps of his matte painting process, by studying the history of the craft, understanding the principles of composition, and creating detailed thumbnail sketches. You'll then learn to take your sketches and build upon them with basic photobashing techniques to give quick life to your first matte painting.
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Assignment
1. Find 4 examples of matte paintings that inspire you.2. Paint 4 composition sketches.3: Choose 1 sketch, and create a concept painting from it.Extra Credit
1. Paint an additional 2 composition sketches where you break the rules and examine what effect it has.2. Choose 2-3 sketches, and create concept paintings from them.
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Lesson 1
this lessonConcepts
It all starts with a sketch. Follow along as Maxx demonstrates the earliest steps of his matte painting process, by studying the history of the craft, understanding the principles of composition, and creating detailed thumbnail sketches. You'll then learn to take your sketches and build upon them with basic photobashing techniques to give quick life to your first matte painting.- 1 hour 18 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 9 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
History of Matte Painting
Composition
Concept Painting
Conclusion
Lesson 2
Photobashing
Photobashing gets a bad rap these days, but Maxx is determined to change that. In this lesson, Maxx will show you his advanced techniques for integrating photos from different sources into a single piece, and how to give them a consistent look and feel. Building upon your concept from the previous lesson, use advanced Photoshop techniques to achieve seamless color, atmosphere, and lighting effects to finish your matte painting.- 1 hour 44 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 8 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Preparation
Color + Lighting
Finishing Touches
Conclusion
Lesson 3
Perspective
Realistic perspective is critical to achieving lifelike quality in your matte paintings. In this lesson, Maxx will teach you all the fundamentals of one, two, and three-point perspective and what the differences are between them. From there, you'll learn how to prepare an image plate with perspective grids, break up source images into orthographic views, and retrofit them into your paintings with the proper perspective.- 1 hour 37 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 10 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Perspective Basics
Matching the Plate
Conclusion
Lesson 4
Lighting
When creating matte paintings, you'll often be asked to completely change the lighting of a scene. While this may seem like a daunting task, Maxx will show you his techniques to do so with relative ease. Using the cityscape created in the previous lesson, you'll learn to do what's called a "day for night," where you'll study the principles of primary and secondary lighting, and add atmospheric and interactive light to your scene.- 2 hours 1 minuteTotal Lesson Duration
- 9 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Primary Lighting
Secondary Lighting
Conclusion
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