Matte Painters - Introduce Yourself

[Rockhoppermedia]

Hello my name is Rich, I am a professional photographer, prolific poster and bad painter. I have hanging around here for a while and I enjoy the community feel of the site. I would also like to hear from the silent community that skulks this forum. I am a slow learner to matte painting but am a complete geek when it comes to visual effects.

I have been to many parts of the world and find it a Beautiful place and I like to share my view of it. Would absolutely love to go to New Zealand so if you are Peter Jackson reading this I can make tea and do a Good photo. LOL


Many regards

Rich.

Look forward to hearing from you.

[JJASSO]

nice idea Tiberius , I'm sure a lot of proffesional matte painters are always looking around , you have to understand most of the people already working in proffesional stuff are busy most of the time , (so do I hehe) , but we're always trying to post or to help others, in my case I'm the foum leader and I´m always trying to encourage, help or give advices to anyone interested . it's great to have a community on matte painting matters , and everybody will always be welcome to post work ,questions or requests .
I´m sure this forum will grow and alot of people will improve their work just sharing techniques here.
I have great ideas for the upcoming months talking about challenges and other matters .. is good to be pro active and always try to make this forum the best . thanks to CGsociety and all the members.

[Suirebit]

James> Yes, I know&understand how busy one can get, I worked professional too :) Looking forward for more challenges and, about techniques, how about starting a sub-forum or at least a thread where people can gather their hints/techniques...something like 'Tips&Tricks'? I think that would be great
EDIT: james, is it possible to make sticky this thread?

Anyway, to say something about me too :) My name is Tiberius and I work for King of Houston as Matte Painter & Illustrator, altough I also still do freelance work.

I've recently joined cgsociety (some one odd year ago) and I find it a great community; Looking forward to find more matte artists around here and to see these forums grow :)

You can always find me for talk on Y!M and MSN, id-s are in my profile;

Cheers

[yellowdog]

Hi Tiberius... and all the others that read this thread !

I'm Ben,
I'm presently a matte artist for Ubisoft's digital arts film studio in Montreal... I'm not the most active of members because I'm super busy these days (like Jaime said... most of us are). But I try to share as much as I can during the time I have ! Your portfolio looks nice btw !

cheers !! :)

[Suirebit]

Hello Ben,

Very nice mattes you have in there :) I specially liked Rainbow 6 one and assasin's creed; Welcome aboard (the list) :D

[Timmay]

Hi, I'm Tim. I check this forum every day but I don't post much. Usually only to submit new work or comment on a piece that is amazing. I guess I'm pretty new at matte work, a year or so, so I'm still learning. I'm in the process of trying to get a job somewhere as a matte artist.

I must say I've learned a TON from posting and reading comments/critiques/techniques on this forum. James and the other regulars have been great at info sharing.

[Suirebit]

I've made the first version of the list, see the edit in the first post :) now keep posting here to get in there! :D

[Timmay]

Hey Jamie if we get a big enough list can we sticky this?

[JJASSO]

yeah sure, I will sticky this , just keep it up

[Rockhoppermedia]

BE VEWWY VEWWY QWIET I AM HUNTWING MWATTE PWAINTERS


Please can you change the title of this thread,

Regards

Rich



The attatched file does not represent the views of Warner Bros, the image cannot be reproduced in any way nor sold. Elmer Fudd and all associated items are the property of Warner Bros and is copyrighted.

[Quadart]

I’m not a matte painter per se but am an illustrator who likes seeing a good matte painting. I’ve been ghosting around this forum for a while admiring the work here, and when the Matte Painting Challenge 07 came up I had to try my hand at it by entering. Obviously I didn’t win nor did I expect to with such admirable competition. The challenge was exciting and a learning experience.
Matte painting is an interesting 2d niche and I’m looking to learn more about it with time and more challenges. —Great forum.

[Photoshopped]

Hi everyone,

My name is Jason and I run my own digital art/flash creative business and freelance as well. I spend literally as much time as possible studying digital art, graphics and design in general. Although I have only just got into Matte painting I am already addicted. I think this has to do with my vivid imagination, love of all things creative and passion for image manipulation and composition.

Even though I am not a professional Matte painter yet. I have worked with the same tools, software and techniques for many years whilst working within the graphics industry and still try and answer as many topics and posts as possible whilst showing respect for the members whos post I am answering.

I have also noticed that there are not many new topics posted here on these forums, and those that are seem to be just about competition entries. This may put some people off who are not interested in these competitions or those that do not have time to enter like me.

Hopefully more people will get chatting now and share there experiences etc. My only snipe about forums in general is at those members who seem to consider themselves gods of this or gods of that. Also members who will happily post just bad things about your work and not the good things? Theres no place for that and as long as the attitude is kept away then this should be a great place to be.

All the best and hopefully I will get to chat to some of you soon,

Jay

[SamsonsReaper]

Hi Levi is the name.

I am pretty fresh in this industry but i enjoy every second of it. So far i have been doing pro stuff for around 8 months for various game and production companies.

On the side of mattepainting and work i also do alot of speedpaintings to practice my skills.

some boring info: 23, guitar,books, draws, games,movies.

Cheers mates!

[Suirebit]

welcome guys :) Levi I really like your "another tomorrow" :)

I've edited the list and also added links towards each of your profiles! :)

Photoshopped> can you create a portofolio here so people can directly see your mattes? :)

[Photoshopped]

Hi Suirebit and SamsonsReaper.

[Inlakechh]

Hi my name is Marco,

I'm working in the print industry at the moment. Mostly doing 3d stills and animations.
The animations are for web of course not for print ;).
I'm learning landscape-concept and matte painting in my free time and just love to create worlds.

[bechira]

Hi. My name is Sorin Bechira.

My background education is graphic/multimedia design, working for 5 years in this field.
Started as a graphic designer doing visual identities, prints and web layouts and a bit later, motion graphics, and recently I became very interested in compositing and mattepainting.
Currently I'm working as art director at X3 Studios, a graphic studio located in Timisoara, Romania.
So, I'm hanging around to see and learn from this great community.

Cheers mates. ;)

[Suirebit]

Welcome Marco, very nice mattes, i really like the one for the contest :)

Hello Sorin, glad to see another fellow romanian here! :beer: you have a very nice portfolio :)

[bechira]

thanks.:beer:
u must be familiar with at least one of the works from my portfolio. ;)

[Suirebit]

yup, but that was a long time ago :D :) btw i really liked your contest entry :)

[bechira]

thanks.

good luck for ballistic d'artiste matte painting 2. ;)

[bonniedickson]

My name is Bonnie Dickson.
I'm a compositor learning the ropes. I'm also an aspiring photographer and digital vector artist.

I love matte paintings and I come to this forum for inspiration and knowledge. It's exciting to watch the mattes progress from concepts to final masterpieces. I love that everyone here is extremely helpful with their comments through the matte stages. I participated in my first matte challenge in the recent NHM contest. Eventhough i didn't finish my stage three I still had fun and learned a lot on cleaning the plate and coming up with a concept.

I look forward to continuing to be inspired by the amazing art on this forum and to learning from all of you.

[Inlakechh]

thanks Suirebit :)

[Suirebit]

james can you please sticky this? It might get lost otherwise :D

[kbarts]

Hi, my name is Bence and I am 27.

I work as a webdesigner. So I am not a matte painter. I just try out this technique. I like doing the speed works more. I learnt traditional painting and drawing. This is only a hobby for me.

Bence

[TheBladeRoden]

Hi, I'm Josh and I'm 23.

I've got a BA in Multimedia minor in Graphic Design, though I'm currently jobless. That's right employers! He's available!

I don't think I've posted in this subforum before, though I did almost make an entry for that NHM contest! I thought a global warming bit with an underwater scene would have been cool. Oh well. Maybe the next contest will roll around soon.

I really should update my CGPortfolio.

My other work is in my sig. [/plug]

[thyn]

Hello
I`m Valentin. I work as a graphic designer in advertising agency. So far matte painting is my hobby and freelance job. Hopefuly one day it`ll be professional work for me. Still learning :)

[chinnha]

Hi my name is Milind Kharade,

I'm working in the print industry at the moment. Mostly doing Photoshop work & 3d stills.

I'm entring in concept and matte painting area.:thumbsup:

[thenextside]

Hello,

Like Ben I don't post that often. I have had less and less time to do personal work and posting professional work is a bit sticky some times. But I do apretiate that this forum is arround and agree that it would be great if more practicing matte painters would contribute. Hows that for total hypocrosy ? ;)

I will try to be a better matte painting comunity member in the future.

The truth is I think everyone is over on www.mattepaining.org

Tim Warnock
Senior Matte Painter
Intelligent Creatures

[Ekarat]

Hi,

I'm from Bangkok, Thailand. Have been working as art director in ad agency for 10 years and am now running a digital retouching and 3d studio. In my line of work, sometimes there's also painting involve when there's certain elements that cannot be clone stamp, no reference can be found and when I'm tight on dateline and 3d is not an option, matte painting really do help me out on many occasion.

To view my portfolio please link to my website : www.colorzync.com

Any freelance work please contact me at : ekarat@colorzync.com


Ekarat.
Digital retoucher/matte painter/3d modeler.

[Suirebit]

Hi guys, I'll update the list later today. Sorry for the delay, I was away this week :)

[MattingMagic]

Hello,

My name is Brandon and I live here in Goodyear, Arizona attending The Art Institute of Phoenix majoring in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics. I am currently taking a matte painting class and have grown extremely interested in the process. My instructor is a man by the name of David Stipes has done some phenominal work on the Star Trek TV series in which he has won two Emmy's. We have learned about the traditional way of matte painting such as painting on glass and rear projection shots but are doing our work on the computer because the old way just isnt done in TV or movies anymore. Ill be posting some of my rookie work on the forums so you weathered veterans can give me a critique. Any help and advice is much appreciated. Thank you all for reading this little tidbit about myself and take care.

Brandon

[Suirebit]

Rule no.1: If you don't have a cgportfolio please create one here...this is the whole point of this thread, to see your works! You may also post a link towards your website portfolio, but please upload atleast 2-3 images here also. Thanks!

[Suirebit]

NEW Rule (no.2): Please, when posting the message about yourself include a status you wish to be displayed next to your name, about your professional experience or current working title, like "freelance matte painter" or "lead matte painter" or "learning the ways..."; If you work for a company or studio please specify it also! Thanks!

[Sphereuk]

Hi, My name is Alex and I’m 19

I have been doing matte painting on and off for a year now but only mainly coming into it now. I am studying to become either a 3D animator or graphics designer focusing on matte painting at Staffordshire University.



I am currently working for Freelance but hopefully in the near future towards a secure position in a company.

[Suirebit]

welcome Alex :) List was updated

[jbecana]

Hi,
my name is Javier, I'm from Zaragoza (Spain). I've been working as a freelance for the last 3 years doing mainly 3D visualization and some little projects on character animation too. This year I decided to get more on digital painting and 3D character modeling, moving away from the standard work I've been doing in the past. I've always wanted to learn more about matte painting techniques as I find this is a challenging field for me. After going through Chris Stoski's DVDs (Gnomon series, I highly recommend these ones) I managed to finish some simple scenes. I've been visiting mattepainting.org quite often lately looking for any challenge to improve my skills, there is some much to learn !! So I finally arrived here looking for online challeges on matte painting. I've been in CGTalk for several years now, but not very active - hey, I have 3 children to look after - but somehow I'll try to change that.

[eyecon]

Hi My name is Eric, and I'm glad to be a part of this forum (if possible). To be with all these great guys feels totally awesome.

I'm a Lead Texture artist and at the same time modeller on Toie Animation Philippines. At the same time I'm also Learning the Skills as a Matte Painter, Yes Toie is the same guys that gave you DragonBall. Digimon, One Piece and Classics like Galaxy Express 999. At the office most of us are generalist, I can do compositing, basic animation, rigging and act as the Lead at the same time. At the sides I also do some freelance work on 3d modelling and as a texture artist for some "totally 3d appllicable textures" that are compiled in numerous collections.

What I really want to do is Matte Painting. I've worked as a background artist for Japanese animation for a year and a half before becoming a 3d Lead. And I love to incorporate 3d elements in creating realistic images. I also love painting so this somehow is the best of both worlds.

I hope to learn a lot from all of you, and hopefully hone my craft as a matte painter.

One quick question... Is it okay to post WIP images here that are part of an ongoing contest on another site? If not then thats quite ok.

Great forum guys!

[Suirebit]

I guess noone would mind, welcome aboard :)

[I-NetGraFX]

Hello,

Like Ben I don't post that often. I have had less and less time to do personal work and posting professional work is a bit sticky some times. But I do apretiate that this forum is arround and agree that it would be great if more practicing matte painters would contribute. Hows that for total hypocrosy ?

I will try to be a better matte painting comunity member in the future.

The truth is I think everyone is over on www.mattepaining.org

Tim Warnock


Same here :)
I wished I had more time for that stuff too.
I actually didn't noticed there was a matte painting forum here on cgtalk.
For myself, I'm working at Meduzarts with Jessy Veilleux (www.meduzarts.com) ...

Dan

[JJASSO]

yeah I know what you guys mean, once you are working somewhere it is almost impossible to make your own stuff, it happens to me actually, but step by step the community inside CGtalk is growing and we have had some better challenges with prizes and VIP judges, but is not just a matter of the forum itself or me as a moderator, the community has to have a daily participation , and I think it's just a matter of time. just keep sharing all you great work and the new guys are always welcome !

[Yona-S]

Hello!
First thing I need to say is that I'm breaking the first rule - I don't have a cgportfolio!!
So I might not really belong in this thread...:shrug:
But I'm hoping to make one soon.:)

I'm from Jerusalem, Israel, though I lived in the US for a few years as well.
I've worked in photoshop for a long time, but only a year ago I found out that you can paint with it too! So I got myself a wacom and, well, painted.
A few months ago I found out what matte painting is, and since then I've been practicing!!
So far I never finished a painting :sad: , but I learned a lot, sketching, matte painting, camera mapping, and I also started teaching myself After Effects.
I hope that I might actually get to finish something that I like now, with comments from the forum!

Yona

[JJASSO]

welcome Yona, and don't worry if you still have no portfolio, we all started just like that, it is good that you are already practicing , feel free to post any of your matte paintings , with feedback you will learn more and faster :thumbsup:

[Suirebit]

Updated the list; Also separated people into two groups: working and hobby-ists :)

[eyecon]

Hi!

I'm going to update myself too. I was hired by a VFX company here in the Philippines as a Senior Mattepainter! :bounce:

Starting January, I will start as Senior mattepainter at RoadRunner productions and will be doing a ot of mattes for films and television! :thumbsup:

Thank you very much guys for the help and inspiration! :D

[kbarts]

I am not in the lists:(

[Rockhoppermedia]

Thanks for updating the lists, though I would rather class myself as a apprentice rather than a hobbyist. I work for a government production company in a state of the art production studio. Some of my CGI work has made its way into several productions. I am also the specialist on technical photography, and the only one to use HDR imaging. I have had two paid VFX jobs so far. I am also involved with a production company at the moment producing a TV special. All the graphic design work and CGI modelling for that I have the job as art director.

I am also contributing in a small way to Riktors Project Axum providing concept art.

As for Matte painting yep definately class myself as a Apprentice with a long way to go.......

I am responding light heartedly, i am really enjoying the experience and speaking to upcoming stars and when someone does come out of the shadows who has real talent it gives me a big smile.

Rich

Professional Photographer
Professional Composer/Musical director
Professional Concept artist

Apprentice Matte Painter LOL :thumbsup:

[Suirebit]

I am not in the lists:(

oops :d sorry. next update :D

[eyecon]

Hi Suirebit,

Once again thnx for updating this list. A lot of things have change since I started my stay here. Although I do not consider myself as a master yet, I'm still grateful tom all the Masters that have helped me in this forum. Most especially JJasso, and Suirebit, Suirebits work convinced me to become an mattepainter (which I will be starting Jan. 2008 ) and james gave me all those wonderful comments that improved my work radically.

All the rest, you know who you are... Riktor, Rockoppermedia and others more, thanks for the comments and I do hope you will still be there in the coming days... I will certainlly need your wisdom in this field.

Sorry for putting this comment here, but I guess this is the best place since I don't want to waste another thread... Thanks and Happy painting everybody!

[Suirebit]

Cheers, it's surely great to hear my work motivated you to start this :)

Looking forward to see what you'll come up with next year :)

[reviresco]

Hey Folks,

my name's Jim Maxwell. I'm a digital matte painter in Toronto - really enjoying checking out work here and the forums in general, glad there's a matte painting specific forum. I've only got two works in my portolio here so far - I've got a about 3 w.i.p. concept sketches, and two 3d matte paintings on the go, so between now and the end of January I'll see what I can post and get your comments...

I recently left Mr.X in Toronto, and worked previously at Intelligent Creatures. I'm currently on contract working on a major feature in Toronto...

glad to be here

Jim

[JJASSO]

welcome Jime ! feel free to show us your work or WIP's, I really like the Mayan tomb, it is so great, I'm in the middle of creating a cave city matte painting as well :applause: , welcome on board !

[reviresco]

thanks James, you have some nice pieces in your 'folio - the mayan tomb will be completed within the next week or so - just bringing up the darks..and adding some finishing touches...will also post the w.i.p. within a coupla weeks

glad to be on board

Jim

[I-NetGraFX]

I guess in this small world you probably worked together with Tim and Dan? :)

[reviresco]

I just missed working with them, it's funny, Toronto's big, but so small in vfx terms....I left one vfx house when they arrived, but I'm in contact with them here and there - talented guys!

[Suirebit]

Conclusion: I must move to Toronto :D

[vfxmunkey]

Hi,

I'm Sam, I live in Zew Zealand, and I'm a matte painter in progress.:P
I love photo manipulation in photoshop, which is how I decided I wanted
to matte paint.

I currently work at a small Christchurch company Mercury Media, as the 3d/Compositing/Vfx guy.

I remember JJasso from Deviant ART, and i LOVE your work haha kiss ass I know. But i do!

I hope to participate in some challenges.

Thanks.

[eyecon]

vfxmunkey : to get to know the faces of these amazing people go ahead and check the other sticky thread : Faces on the images

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=196&t=573678

And don't forget to stick your own image there too! :D :bounce:

[vfxmunkey]

Ahaha thanks dude, Yeah I'll get a more recent pic of me up there in the next few days ;)

[eyecon]

vfxmunkey: whoah! i just realized that i forgot to welcome you... so here it goes... welcome to the forums mate!

[vfxmunkey]

vfxmunkey: whoah! i just realized that i forgot to welcome you... so here it goes... welcome to the forums mate!

Thanks dude. I'll add you as a friend on DevArt. Err.. wait.. I already have haha. Small world.

[waheednasir]

hello....greetings to all...:). i am waheednasir, fine and cg artist, do concepts, mattes and texturing as well as make light, color and mood keys. i do visit this lovely section and i think i might start posting here too. mostly share my work in the 2D Finished Work section.


this is a great place with some really good work to enjoy, ill be around...:).

cheers all.

[TomasWarren]

Just realised i post in this forum but i've not introduced myself in here yet!

Hi all, i'm Tom, currently still a student at the ncca bournemouth(uk) but in my final year. I don't have any work in my gallery at the min, but there should be something up in there soon

and er, yeah.. i like matte painting :)

[EdwardGrad]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8668846@N04/2262343442/http://www.flickr.com/photos/8668846@N04/2262343442/Hello everyone,

My name is Edward Grad, I’m a digital matte artist from Toronto Canada, matte painting was area of my concentration for last 3 years. I have BAF degree in Fine Arts (painting, composition, drawing, photography), and Diploma from Toronto Film School in Computer Animation in Post Production. I was working in film industry for 3 years, mostly done work such as 3D animation, texturing, compositing and art consulting. I have 13 years of experience in graphic design/mass media industry. Past 3 years I worked on many different types of projects; starting making visual effects for music videos, TV channels, later I worked at Autodesk were I did art consulting, animation, compositing, and latest was compositing job for “Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix”.

After this amazing project I decide not to work for a while, and put all my time into creation strong matte painting portfolio. I always dreamed to use in film industry, my passion and experience in traditional art.

Here is my latest matte painting, Waiting for your critiques…





Edward Grad

Digital matte artist/3D environments

http://edwardgrad.cgsociety.org/gallery/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2850059/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8668846@N04/2262343442/

[EdwardGrad]

Here is "Astoria".

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/2279816017_78370c7bbe_b.jpg

[xantirodriguez]

Hi Mates!

My name´s Xanti, I´m professional photographer and designer, i´m beginning in this world of matte painting, hope to learn and make friends in this awesome site-forum.

Some of your works are just AMAZING.

[murugucgs]

Hi guys this is Oli form India..! I am not a good matte painter just now practising some excersise tutorials in my home! And you are doing too good...! Each of your paintings are awesome...and CG society is really going to a point of highness..! I like to learn matte painting up to the core! I am not a good pencil artist ..is that a requirement for a matte painter!! And this Digital Matte painting forum makes my morning very usefull..! All the paintings and illustrations are too good...and no words to explain them more! Is that very easy to learn matte painting! I have done some...but only at the very basci level..! And they dont have a good look too! Currently i am working as a 3D Artist in India...! I like to study in abroad...In this animation anf vfx field! And especially Matte Painting...! Can you advice m,e some universities and schools??
Thank you...And keep posting...! waiting for your thunder perfomance...! Take care!

[Atheas]

Hello everyone.

I'm Camilla, 31 years from Oslo, Norway.
I'm a hobby painter and has for the first time tried matte painting. I find it quite interesting. I hvae been drawing and painting for some yearsHas the character in a number of years, but not matte painting. I also plan to learn Maya and hope I have the opportunity to be good someday.

[JJASSO]

hi guys and welcome you all !! I will be looking forward to see your matte paintings in this forums, if you have any questions feel free to ask . and welcome again :)

[degerardo]

Hello :wip: , I thing I have to introduce myself too :p

I am Gerardo and 25.years old Digital Artist. I started with 3d, but I change to matte-painting and I love it!!! :) I am working at London as Senior Matte-Painter and Zbrush modeler for enviroments. I have a few years experience with different comapnies and many feature projects like films, games, TV series etc.

If you`ll need or want to check it out here are:
my website: www.degerardo.com (http://www.degerardo.com)
my email: gerardo_de@yahoo.co.uk (http://forums.cgsociety.org/gerardo_de@yahoo.co.uk)

Thanks! Have a good posting here.
G!

[memod]

Ah, just discovered that thread and figured I'd introduce myself, too :D

I am Daniel Alekow from Germany, I am 21 years old and currently studying Digital Film and Animation at the SAE, but matte painting is what I ultimately want to do. I have been teaching myself painting for five years now and picked up matte painting a little over two years ago, and I hope that eventually I will get to the point where I can do it professionally, that is my definite goal!

So far I mainly focused on the 2D aspect, on painting and incorporating stock photography, but I want to experiment with the whole projection thing soon, too.

I registered here at cgsociety just a few days ago, am glad that there's an actual matte painting section here, so I hope I can get some proper critiques here :D

So hello everyone! :)


Daniel

[Xdreamer79]

Welcome to the forums :) I am excited to see some mattes form you Daniel.

[mad4art]

I am an artist at the core of my heart. With a passion for art i took up a graduation degree from the College for Arts, Chandigarh, specialized in Applied Arts. With a passion for painting from the start, gradually i also developed a great affinity towards sculpting characters in clay, using them as a medium for my expression in campaigns. With no barriers for for any kind of mediums, i have always found myself experimenting with new ones. Initially starting my career with advertising as a Visualizer, i got the opportunity to experiment with ideas and techniques. And then understanding the need to digitalise myself i got into understanding the latest softwares and techniques. With sketching, Visualising, Concept building, dIgital painting, Character designing , graphic design to matte painting, i have always wanted to challenge and explore myself with my abilities. I worked with a small studio as an Art Director for quiet some time and with an experience of 3.5 years in the industry, now i am looking forward to freelance working online. I recently took up a CG WORKSHOP on matte painting, which has lead me to this wonderful art form.
You can check out some of my work at http://mad4art.cgsociety.org/gallery/
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[eyecon]

mad4art, Xdreamer79, welcome to the forums! I have seen your works somehow in other sites! SO welcome to the forums!

I'll be eagerlly loking forward to your works! :bounce:

[Mattedepartment]

Hello there,

my name is Jack Moik. I'm a digital matte painter from Frankfurt in Germany. I'm watching this forum for years and I learned a lot of stuff here. So first a big thanks to all you guys. I think it's time to give back something to the community, so here i am.

I started painting with classic airbrush and joined the movie business allmost ten years ago. I did a lot of painted sky and landscape backdrops helping miniature landscapes come alive, mostly for German TV and movie productions. A couple of years ago I entered the digital realm and finally found my tool which is the Wacom Intuos. Together with Photoshop CS it really can be a magic weapon.

I recently did a lot of matte stuff for TV, video clips and some motion pictures. At the moment I'm working on some matte paintings for a new German movie about Adolf Hitler.

My matte painting gallery is Mattedepartment. (http://www.mattedepartment.com)

As I also do work as Digital compositer, video editor and film music composer I do have a "master homepage" for my company, which is Solid Ground Entertainment (http://www.solid-ground-entertainment.com)

Please take a look there if you like. Well, you may also contact me on my little myspace account (http://www.myspace.com/jackmoik) where you can also hear some of my music stuff. I need to update all my web entries soon, but many of you know how precious time can be in the media business. ;)

Your comments are welcome, best regards,
Jack

[memod]

Hello Jack, welcome to the forum :D I had a look at your gallery, I like your valley matte a lot!

Greetings from Leipzig :)
Daniel

[MatejaPetkovic]

My name is Mateja, and i am from Serbia/Belgrade.

I am actually traditional painter and illustrator, but i allways liked mattepainting, especially because i use photography all the time for my work.

Anyway i was hired to do some concept/mattpainting, so i think its time to meet all of you.

Cheers

M

[memod]

Hey Mateja, welcome :D I am looking forward to your mattes, the paintings in your gallery certainly look very cool already! :)

Daniel

[degsieger]

Hi mattepainters and all digital artists,

my name is Dirk and I do some digital art work as Hobby. Mostly I´m interested in mattepainting and compositing since I was in the photography working group in school where I did Black and White Photography with laboratory and also made my first Photo compositing with sicssors, projector and pencil. ;-)

[Eshi]

i already kinda introduced myself in the first post, using this one to both fill up the gap of two posts being checked for spam so i could continue my new formed life 'ere, and more importantly to appear human, friendly even :)

I used to be a photographer, terragener etc ... but the thing is i cant afford the equipment, last tg render took well over 5days (and that was a preview), and the camera witch is more or less a simple digital snapshot cam, just doesnt cut it, crops are to small, too much noise, iso200 at its best etc... my matte painting exp. is non-existant, unless you count in fixing the already mentioned photos and renders...

i think everything is at least 1y old but here's the:

http://www.artismurder.com/samartian/gallery


I'm not a patient person :) so this is a big step, cause i figgure i'll need quite some time to start doing this on a higher level... and looking at the some of the discussions from the forum ... i have to mention that i see matte-ing as form of art, i have no finnal goal with it (movies games etc.) just art, no more no less...

the human chars:

beer drinker, chain smoker, friendly... errr... did i mention friendly? *suffers from brain blue screens*


tools of trade: under 300euro (500$) value PC (thats with the 22" samsung) ... aaand cheap genious tablet :) works well when you get used to the glitches...

cu all o/

[KyleKuhlman]

Hi everyone, thanks for creating this great thread! I hope to cultivate much knowledge here with you all.

Im Kyle Kuhlman. Ive been working on my matte painting portfolio for a few years now, building on skills from traditional painting and architectural visualization experience.

I have yet to work on any films, but I have some experience doing matte paintings for ballets (video-projected backgrounds) and high-end architectural renders.

I hope to expand my 2.5D skills, and in general, become a better matte painter and concept artist.

If there is anyone looking to collaborate or has an interesting project going on, I would love to help out.

Nice meeting you all :)

here's my portfolio:

http://kylekuhlman.cgsociety.org

[dimms]

Well, i guess that i could to introduce myself in this tread.

Don't really like my official name, so friends calls me - Dimms. Doing matte painting as a hobby, hope one day to come in this industry in a professional role. Having this kind of fun about seven or eight months, using for in about all of my free time. For the moooneeeey im doing a technical design, illustrations and the rest of rubbish like this.

Not so sure, that anyone is really interested in another of my hobbies, so i will don't bother you with this.

So hello, world:)

p.s. Sorry for my rude english.

[dudekill]

Hi everyone,
My name is Luke and I am an employed 3D generalist who started matte painting out of necessity. I am really enjoying learning it and find it to be an extremely powerful tool, especially in combination with camera tracking.

my current reel: http://www.vimeo.com/user552550/videos

Best Regards

[egan]

Hi guys,

I'm Richard, 22 just graduated from a specialist illustrations degree. I'm based in London and I'm pursuing digital matte painting and hope to make it my profession. As well as mattes I also do a little wildlife painting in the old traditional mediums. I very much look forward from learning from you all.

[chanizz]

Hiya all, wohoo first post on cgtalk!

Im Johan, 20 yo from sweden studying game graphics. but im thinking abot aspiring to become a mattepainter, the little i've done so far has been much more fun than the usual uvwmapping and whatnots that comes with doing 3d for games.


mvh

[gavobe]

I buy a ebook obout matte painting by 2Dartist from Tiberius Viris. And why have alot to learn about that stuff.He is a big artist. I work with photoshop,painter and bryce.I ame a newbie in that stuf and spent a hole day for to learn.
I loved
all regards

[timmyhol]

Hi,
My name is Tim, I trained as a traditional animator and worked at EA for a couple of years. My real passion is drawing and painting, and I studied oil painting at a school in South London. Recently that came to an end and I have been developing a Matte portfolio. I hope at some point to get work in a post production house in London. I've been using CGtalk for ages but only just found the Matte section!

[kaustavsinha]

Hi Everyone,
This is Kaustav Sinha from Kolkata, India! I'm an aspiring Digital Matte Painter! I like the art of Digital Matte Painting very much! My favourite tool is Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Kindly provide your feedbacks on my mattepaintings!
http://kaustavsinha.cgsociety.org/gallery/

[Glazyrin]

Hi. My name is Dmitriy Glazyrin. Im from Russia.
I am engaged matte-painting some months. Has fallen in love with this technics and I wish to make its trade. Now actively I study 3d soft and I study to draw sketches.It will be interesting to communicate and share experience

my some works
http://glazyrin.cgsociety.org/gallery/

[JJASSO]

hey guys welcome to this forums, you will learn a lot and will find great critics form a lot of talented artist around, feel free to look in the tutorials thread , there I suggest that you start looking around each tyutorial to see what you already know and what are you missing in your knowledge, that will make you better and will give you an eagle eye for details ! welcome again and start posting your artwork! :applause:

[radkrish]

Hi!
my name is Radhakrishna. I'm a digital matte painter from chennai in india. I'm watching this forum for years and I learned a lot of stuff here. So first a big thanks to all you guys... :)


here is my works: http://mattekrishna.blogspot.com/

[JJASSO]

welcome to this forums Radhakrishna , I've seen your website and you have an excellent taste and amazing works ! congratulations , it would be great if you can post some of your works in this forums and share some of your knowledge with the community!
keep it up !

[Suirebit]

damn i need to find some time to update the list :)

[radkrish]

Hi jamesvfx!.
Thank You.Your works are very inspiring me.

[RyeBread13]

Hello Everyone,
Im very new to cgsociety. My friend who works in video games directed me here as a resource to get familiar with other people and resources in the areas of digital art that I fancy.

My name is Ryan and Im from Canada. I have a diploma in graphic design and am currently enrolled at the University of the Fraser Valley, working towards my Bachelor of Fine Arts. Im not planning on being an industry matte painter (although I wouldn't turn down an opportunity) Im planning on becoming a Secondary (High) School art teacher.

Anyways, I have absolutely no history or works to back up my matte painting skills. Im a complete newbie, aside from being inspired by the many works I have witnessed in magazines, websites and in film. Im here with beginner knowledge to learn what I can and start doing matte paintings because I absolutely love the medium and look forward to communicating with other artists while I work on my degree.

Thank you everyone, just for being here and I get the sense that you lot are a very supportive but critical bunch, which is essential to any growth. Any pointers for a complete beginner would be entirely welcome.

Just a technical note.
I use photoshop, learning Corel Painter 9 and I have an Intuos 3 4x6 tablet that I am also getting used to.

Thank you everyone
Glad to be here.
Rye

[spaille]

Hi everyone,

I know and read this forum since few months now and I would like to thanks all the artists around there for sharing their creations and skills, it seems to be an awesome community.
So I finally decided to write my first post today :p

My name is Quentin and I'm currently doing studies (2nd year of 3) in computer graphics design in belgium.
I began drawing 'seriously' in September 08 and I got my first tablet (Wacom Bamboo A6) only few months ago in January.
I thought that work in 3D was my thing but through the last months my interrest for 2d work was growing so i finally decided to start doing some sketches everyday and to begin digital painting as a perfect newbie.

and I end up there writing this post to get myself introduced in the world of digital painting ;)

I just finished my first painting yesterday, it's uploaded in my portfolio, so feel free to comment and critique.

Thanks for reading and I hope to see you soon through the forum

[spaille]

double post, sorry

[jorust]

Hello everyone. :wavey:

I´ve been lurking around this forum for some time now, and enjoyed all the killer work posted here. :bowdown:
I´m not a matte painter, yet, but I´ll practice as much as my time allow. :arteest:

Currently I work as a busy 3D illustrator, doing all kinds of stuff. :banghead:
http://jorust.cgsociety.org/gallery/
http://www.cgarchitect.com/upclose/article1_JO.asp
http://www.luxology.com/community/profile.aspx?name=J.O.Rust

[halvarado]

Hello

I am Holli Alvarado. I live in Mission Viejo, California, USA
I have a BA in Media Art and Animation, I have studied matte painting and compositing courses online through CGSociety, VFXWorkshops and FXPHD.com

The last 5 years I was a Sr 2D Digital Artist with an architectural previs company and have been freelancing as a matte painter since 2008.

Nice to be part of a like minded crowd
http://www.halvaradoart.com/forum%20images/Me-7-04.jpg
H-

[JJASSO]

welcome Holli ! feel free to share experiences, images and anything that you would like ,
I hope you can show some of your work and talk a bit about your techniques

have fun in here :thumbsup:

[gavobe]

My real name is Gaston and I ame from europe and live known in the usa.
My hobby's are waterpaint and digital art. Love to learn more about digital mattepainting.
I have corel IX and adobe cs2 photoshop,photopaint X2,photopremiere 6.
And now retired but allwys bussy and not to old for to learn more.
all regards

[eyecon]

WOw! lots of people... suirebit needs to update this soon! :beer:

[duom]

Hi everyone !

My name is Paul, I live in France. Well I have not much to say about me but I am currently a student in informatic in a IUT (like a Higher National Diploma I guess :) ). Well I made my first step in digital painting a year ago when I was working on an art class theme for an my BAC (it called A Level in england I think). I love traditional painting (acrylic, well all of my stuff is black and white, for me it's "pure" art) and water colors.
I am currently working with a wacom volito 2 and I really look forward to submit my work here and maybe get some useful tips and advices on my compositions.

Well that's pretty much it (and before I forget I learned english mostly by myself so sorry for the spelling mistakes and all that stuff :) )

Hope to see you soon, have fun, Duom

[jaredr]

Hello people,
I suppose I should do one of these intro posts, since I've been lurking this forum for a while now. My name is Jared. I am currently a junior, studying visual effects at SCAD. My permanent home is Buffalo, New York. I am focusing on becoming a matte painter, but also having a well-rounded vfx skillset. I am also working with a tiny 3.5x5 Graphire, but my school has Cintiq 21UXs. :)

Also I am thinking about writing a book on matte painting someday, unless one gets made sooner.

[erenarik]

Heya..My name is Eren Arik from Turkey.. I worked in game and commercial industry about 3 years as Concept Artist.. and now I want to go deeper and deeper in matte painting art.. there are lots of talented guy here..You can check my deviant (http://www.erenarik.deviantart.com/gallery/) i hope you like it..Cheers

[Woodengun]

Hi guys, I am also a lurker... my name is Mike, I am working as a matte painter in Austin Texas. My cgsociety portfolio -- http://woodengun.cgsociety.org/gallery/ -- Thanks for all the knowledge---

[halen]

Greetings. I'm a lurker mostly at mattepainting.org but found here just recently so no cg portfolio yet.

I'm just learning the ways and delighted by the variety of methods and freedom of techniques in it. Want to know em all. :D

Currently I'm paying most of the rent as a software designer and burning the midnight oil as an illustrator and events coordinator.

[mxyzptlk]

Hey all my name is Ajay and looking where my true skills lie and hopefully it's matte Painting. :arteest:

[N68CAL]

Hey everyone, this is my first time on the forums, and I am excited for things to come. I am a graphic design student in london ontario. I am familiar with pretty much the entire Adobe CS, but I would have to say that I am most accustomed to illustrator.

I am very interested in matte painting but I am a little confused on what exactly it is, and what kind of techniques people use to create these wonderful images.

Up until now I have done all my Photoshop/illustrator work by mouse, but now I have a nice new tablet which I have been playing around with, I can tell this will really speed up my workflow as well as let me dive into the world of digital art, more specifically digital painting.

If anyone can bring me up to speed or direct me to a good place to start, that would be awesome.


Cheers!
N68CAL :D

[halen]

Wellcome to the forum!

This is one good place to start, mattepainting.org (http://www.mattepainting.org) an another for mattepainting. I also like to read art techniques and theories (http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=166) part of cgsociety, there are plenty of things to learn.

It seems that question about mattepaintings nature is asked and answered quite a lot with some kind of variety. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_painting) gives one starting point. :)

Posting something to WIP thread here or mattepainting.org might be useful too.

[EyeSeeBlack]

Hi everyone!
My name is Stas, 31 y.o. and live in Moscow, Russia. I am actually traditional graphic artist, but love digital art and also learning matte painting technique. This is great forum and I am glad to be here :)

[apeman]

Greetings all!

It's been a while since I've posted...

My name is Ed, and I'm a South Afrcan artist and photographer who has been working as a mattepainter for the last two years or so in my native country.
I've just moved to the UK and now am in the process of looking for work.


my portfolio can be seen here:
www.edwardbabb.com (http://www.edwardbabb.com/index/)

My showreel here:
http://www.edwardbabb.com/index/index.php?/select/showreel/
with the shotlist here:
http://www.edwardbabb.com/video/Showreel_2008_Shotlist.pdf

If any of you have any advice about who to approach here in the UK, please PM me, as I'd appreciate that immensely!

Ed

[Thiago-Pires]

Hello everyone,

My name is Thiago, I am from Brazil and I´ve been working with CG for six years. I started as a 3d generalist / motion designer and I moved to matte painting and compositing in the last couple of years.

I am currently at Conspiração Filmes working mostly with commercial films and sometimes with feature films and TV shows.

I am huge fan of VFX movies and I always try to do CG challenges at free time (or sleep hours).



my portfolio (vfx reel coming soon)
http://thiago-pires.cgsociety.org/gallery/


my entry for the Tower of Askobar DMP challenge
http://forums.cgchannel.com/showthread.php?t=355


my team video for the Steampunk challenge
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=277&t=698803





Nice to see this community growing up!

Thiago

[matteleung]

Hey everybody,

I am new to the wonderful world of matte painting and very interested in soaking up techniques in how to develop as a matte painter. I am a graphic design student so I suppose matte painting is only a hobby for now.

I hope to produce some nice pieces to include into my CGportfolio sometime in the near future but for now I wish to learn the ways of matte painting.

I look forward to participating on this forum and hearing from you all.

Jamie

[thyn]

Hi all :)
I'm introducing myself in this thread although i've posted several times in DMP forum before.
I know most of you guys from the CG forums or Ballistic books, but i want to say hi to all the new people here :)
My name is Valentin Petrov, i'm 30 years old, i work in Cinemotion (Bulgaria) as matte/texture painter since 2009. My dream to be part of professional team in the movie industry has become real. My personal works can be seen here in the CG society (http://thyn.cgsociety.org/gallery/) forum or mattepainting.org (http://mattepainting.org). I have some works included in the second D'artiste matte painting issue and i hope i'll be a part of the next Expose book.

p.s. what happened with those great challenges here? The 7th MP competition was really great. I hope soon we'll have another one :)
Cheers guys !

[narutaki]

Hi there :-)

i am a newbie at matte painting but i would like to learn and develop my skill, though i'm a newbie and needs a lot of practice, I'm Currently a CG student and studying to be a professional at this industry (i hope so) o'm currently using photoshop and a software called Painter SAI to create textures and other artworks but not that good yet I'm still at a newbie level , i hope i can produce lots of great artworks and i look forward to learn from you all :-D


jesty

[JJASSO]

welcome to this forums guys ! feel free to share techniques, images and ask questions ! btw great paintings valentin !

we have been crazy busy but soon I hope the next challenge will be on again !

[alphamail]

My name is Marcus.
I'm a freelance matte painter and 3D generalist, although work has been rare these days. I've been keeping busy with personal projects and getting back into constructing miniatures, which I often use in my matte paintings.

Just started "lurking" here-glad to know this forum exists. I'm always interested in the workflow of other artists.

Links to some of my work --
http://home.earthlink.net/~trahan/mtvfx/

And because I use 3D elements in matte painting-
http://home.earthlink.net/~automatte/

Comments and critiques welcome.

[JJASSO]

welcome Marcus you have some great images in your portfolio, that's awesome that you were part of illusion arts ! an amazing plae full with amazing artists , feel free to share old or new work !

[alphamail]

Thanks Jamie,

Yes. Illusion Arts was a great place, Syd Dutton and Bill Taylor were two of the coolest employers I have ever worked for. It was more of a creative circle than a VFX pipeline, which I really liked.

I am working on a couple of personal paintings that I will be posting soon for critique and helpful tips. I'd also like to hear from other matte painters who are into constructing miniature elements.

Marcus

[scharb]

Hello,
I'm John, young artist from Czech Republic.
I know world of matte painting just a few months, but it was enough to create up my dream to become to be a matte-painter. :-)

[Littlelizard]

Hi my name is Simona Ceci, i have been working for four years in 3d animation production, as texture artist , digital painter and compositor, and during this last year as matte painter in the same society. One day i would like to employ my skills in some live action production, so till then i will continue to improve my skills.
I work with Maya, Bodypaint, Nuke, After Effect, Vue D'esprit, and of course Photoshop.
You could visit my cgportolio if you wish.
Thank you :P

[JJASSO]

hi Jan and Simona you are welcome to start posting some work ! looking forward to see some of your work!

[menyhei]

Hi there,

My name is Szabolcs Menyhei. I've been a background painter in the animation industry in the last couple of years, then I was a concept artist/digital painter on several game projects. After painting so many backgrounds for animations and games I felt that it would be cool to try myself out in digital matte painting. Now I've ended up as one of the lead matte painters on a cool live action short film. I've learnt so much during the last year, I must say matte painting is great fun.

some of my stuff can be found here:

http://menyhei.cgsociety.org (http://menyhei.cgsociety.org/)

http://www.menyhei.com

I'm really looking forward to create a new reel of my works from 2010.

Regards,

Szabolcs

[halen]

^ You seem to have pretty solid works already. Wellcome also to the this part of the forum. :) Looking forward to see your work and comments here!

[incognita]

Hello, everyone! My friend recommended this forum to showcase my stuffs and get feedback. These are my very first efforts at matte painting. Don't have a pad yet and it gets quite tricky to fine-tune using the mouse. Please tell me what do you guys think.

Here's my first effort :

http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa443/incognita_anthropos/Matte%20Painting/roof-garden2.jpg

And here's the second :

http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa443/incognita_anthropos/Matte%20Painting/rivermist.png

[JJASSO]

hi laurelin welcome to this forums! I'm sure a lot of people will reply and give your feedback, please create a new thread showing your work , so people can see it faster , because this thread here is only to introduce yourself to the other fellow artists and not to showcase your work
I will give you some feedback and advices once you create the thread

welcome again and keep posting !

[bdbros]

Hello ,My name is Boali,I have been on cgtalk for couple of years.I am a concept/matte artist.I have worked for EA,Bioware for 4 years,and now I am a freelancer.I have been to this section once or twice.so you can say I am new here.I hope for the opportunity to make friends here.

[Suirebit]

welcome :) There's not much activity lately, but don't let that keep you from posting; there's only nice people in here who are eager to help :)

[molman]

ahoy all. my names antoni and ive only been matte painting for a few months now, but i love. matte painting wasnt covered in my digital effects degree but i ran with it anyway. so kind of self taught. but you will most likely see me poking around Mari related posts as i work for the foundry. some fantastic artists on here, so a good place to learn.

[gitchas]

Hi Guys, I am Girish, doing my masters in AAU SF. My major is VFX, concentrating on Matte painting, compositing and texturing. Good to see lot of talented artists in this thread. I really enjoy working on matte painting, I have done couple of compositions and posted in my blog:-) http://gitchas.blogspot.com feel free to check and let me know your suggestions/comments.

[adamkuczek]

Hi, my name's Adam and I'm a digital artist from Poland, currently living in Shanghai. I deal with various things like storyboards, concepts, illustrations and matte paintings. Right now, through practice and theory, I'm trying to make matte painting my speciality. I've enrolled to David Luong's February workshop and I'm also taking part in current matte competitions on CG Channel, CG Tantra and Matte-Effect. I saw some older challenges here as well, hopefully they will be resumed. I'm also working on some other, personal projects, which I will post here as soon as they are completed.

Cheers.

[tarangula1]

Hello, I'm Dylan, I haven't uploaded anything yet, but I'm an amateur painter until sometime within the next year when I'll be in a four year school. I have a little experience with 3DS and ZBrush, but I'm having an affair with Corel Painter right now. Will post things to my gallery as soon as they're finished.

[halen]

Welcome Dylan. Hope to see you, your comments and works also here at matte painting part of these forums. :thumbsup:

edit:
And welcome also Swiss Tony, Girish, Adam! :-)

And as Suirebit said - sometimes is quite silent, but just keep posting. :)

[metalshredder7]

Hi everyone
My name is Jack and live in New Zealand. Ive been playing with photoshop for a few years now and are in the process of learning Vue, Maya and (want to learn) Zbrush. Ive just recently started to create matte paintings, and would love to hear back proper feedback from everyone\ :p

[arjemma]

Hi!
I just recently found out what Matte Painting is and now I'm hooked! I'm right now trying to learn, but so far I use photos in my paintings. My goal is to learn how to only use painting and 3D. Gotta learn proper 3D skills first haha.
Anyway I'm so glad I found this forum and it will be a great help in my journey to learn 3D and Matte Painting. See you around!

[Feedbacker]

Hi
I'm Jo, I'm from Belgium, but am currently living in the UK, where I am doing my master in Digital Effects at Bournemouth University. Got into matte painting and set extension some years back, but only recently started learning the techniques. my main tools are Photoshop, Houdini and Nuke. I am really only starting out in this specific field, so well, once I start uploading stuff I would love to hear feedback and tips.
Cheers
Jo

[halen]

Welcome to the mattepainting part of these forums Jack, Emma and Jo. It's kind of silent here every now and then :D, but don't get discouraged, just share your work and opinnions. Looking forward for your posts.

[thenar]

I'm Peter Plantec. I'm more of an industry journalist than a matte painter, but I take my painting seriously. I'm friends with a number of pro matte painters and concept designers who inspire me.

I use Vue from time to time to start a painting because it's a fast way to pull in all the light and atmosphere I want. I consider that legit because I design it all myself from scratch and use the Vue image as my initial canvas. I work mostly in Photoshop with a little Painter 11 from time to time. I love creating environments. I'm better at exteriors than interiors, but I really love doing interiors...maybe one day I'll be good enough to satisfy me.

[Bridgett]

Hi, I´m Brigitta and i´m an Digital Artist. I started working as a generalist, but got more and more into the field of Matte painting.
I´m using mainly Photoshop and Maya, but started to learn Vue and Nuke as well.
I´m still learning a lot, but because i love exactly that- to create Matte paintings and to paint whole backgrounds- it is a pleasure to learn all what i need to succeed in this field.
I hope to get an great exchange of experiences and informations with all you guys here.

[darvinkmanwah]

Hey guys,

I'm one of those silent stalkers, roaming the forums from time to time. I'm originally from Trinidad and Tobago but now I reside in Vancouver, BC for employment. I'm a mattepainter and visual effects artist. You can get a bit more info about me at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4054243 and http://ca.linkedin.com/in/darvinkmanwah

I'm currently working on a mattepainting as I've been busy with compositing and not a whole lot of mattepainting lately. Check out my recent post and follow ...

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=196&t=1005325

[obiwandk]

morning i am slowly learning to draw and mate paint
got my first learning project up in port folio
is danish 32 year old
but completely new to it

[emptyslot]

Hi there havent seen this part of the cgsociety till now and love it! Been working with film and commercial stuff for quite some time now and Mattepainting is something i love to explore and learn more of as i work!

check out my site for showreel/portfolio and some tutorials http://www.kupski.net

[Yatzenty]

Hi Everyone,

My name is Jacek and I'm from Poland currently living in China and working here as Art Director for 3d company.
So finally the time has come and I decided to enter professional world of matte painting. I have been doing it for a while now and I really enjoy it. Especially the early concept stage, painting and getting the composition right.

Here is my entry to the CG Channel last month competition that placed as runner up. The theme was Star Wars. Tell me your thoughts.

My Reel will be coming up soon so I hope I could get some suggestions and critics from the community here. Peace

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6451100163_2833757207_o.jpg

[efestione79]

Hello,
My name is Marco Carlini are just writing to CGSociety. They are fond of matte painting. I'd like to improve very artistically and technically. I hope to receive criticism and advice from other matte painter.
Greetings to all!