Matte Painting

[Sulla]

Hi I thought I would share a matte painting I did today. Hope to be able to do some for some of the Adventist movies in the works. Any way let me know what you think.

[LynnDel]

Very nice. Makes me feel cold and desolate. I didn't know what "matte painting" was until I did a little research. What software do you use?

[Sulla]

I used photoshop for this one. Its the main program in use in matte painting.

[Amelia]

Wow, thats awesome.

[Dottie]

It's beautiful. Everything blurry except the boat.

What is "matte?"

[phkrause]

Love it

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[Fran]

It is a very moving piece of art! I see the broken bridge and the ice across the water, except I seem to see some water moving.

It is as if time has stopped and been frozen in that moment in time.

I wonder of there is anyone on the boat. Are there any people in the buildings? I think not because I see no electricity or smoke. There are no beacons of light. It is as if I am in the picture and can smell the frigid smell of death and feel the chill of the frigid wind on my face.

It seems to be devoid of the essence of life and appropriately, everything is frozen and in fact devoid of life!

The combinations of the whites, blues, and grays are wonderful. I think that I must pray that our flight will not be in the winter or on the Sabbath.

It is VERY GOOD! Do you have a portfolio on the web to browse through?

I have a deep appreciation of art! It is sort of a private love affair. I collect as I can. My problem is that I do not have enough walls to hang all I already have. I have to rotate them. Many pieces of art move me to exquisite moments that are not possible with humans. They take me to the artist's world and allow me to see things I would not see otherwise.

Thank you for sharing. (I also get that experience when reading books, especially the Desire of Ages! That is an out of this world feeling!)

[Neil D]

It's beautiful. Everything blurry except the boat.

What is "matte?"

Dottie, here is another image of matte painting-

As for "what is it?", here is Wikipedia definition-

Mattes are used in photography and special effects filmmaking to combine two or more image elements into a single, final image. Usually, mattes are used to combine a foreground image (such as actors on a set, or a spaceship) with a background image (a scenic vista, a field of stars and planets).

In film, the principle of a matte requires masking certain areas of the film emulsion to selectively control which areas are exposed. However, many complex special-effects scenes have included dozens of discrete image elements, requiring very complex use of mattes.

For an example of a simple matte, we may wish to depict a group of actors in front of a store, with a massive city visible above the store's roof. We would have two images-- the actors on the set, and the image of the city-- to combine onto a third. This would require two masks/mattes. One would mask everything above the store's roof, and the other would mask everything below it. By using these masks/mattes when copying these images onto the third, we can combine the images without creating ghostly double-exposures. In film, this is an example of a static matte, where the shape of the mask does not change from frame to frame.

Hope that helps...

[Dottie]

A little.