Is that matte painting?

#1

Hi all

I’m still knew to the matte painting stuff and because of my bachelor thesis I might have questions from time to time :slight_smile:

This time I have this question that poped up in my head:

Is matte painting always layerbased? Mean you manipulate a picture, put it into a compositing programm like Nuke/AfterEffects, 3D Programm like Maya and make then a camera movement or is it still a matte painting if you make the whole scene computer animated?
Like a full landscape scene in Vue (3D Landscape programm) and make there the camera movement and render it out in Vue to have at the end a whole CGI video without layers.

Because I will have a scene with an island + tress and want to film it e.g. vertical from normal view to bird view. I don’t know if you can do that layerbased in Nuke e.g too or if that is only makeable with a full CGI animated rendering without camera projection.

#2

well Laura nowadays nothing is really “Matte Painting” this is the nostalgic/romantic way to call it but nobody does it like it was in the old traditional days, we are becoming more environment TD’s than real “painters” for instance, at ILM we work with 3D a lot and must of the times with no projections at all, so this is really 3D right? well yes, but 3D made with all the matte painting skills and knowledge, 3D renderings need that special “eye” of a skilled matte painter to make it look, moody, photo real and interesting but yet fast and production effective, so we are now technical directors and artists.

#3

That is true :slight_smile:
Thank you for bringing light into my darkness.
I’m still new in the matte painting stuff and glad for every information.

#4

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