Movie Magic HD episode 08 - Matte Painting

Fascinating. I just watch movies but rarely care about how they were made. I admire creative people and artists. 😊

The motion rig camera movement needing to look like a shot that yiu could get for real highlights a huge problem with todays movies. Pre-viz today makes the camera so unrealistic because of all if the nonsensical 3d movement.

I was only like 4 years old in 1993, but I really miss the 90s

I miss the old-style matt paintings. The digital stuff is too perfect and clean-looking.

Funny, I just watched Dennis the Menace again the other day and that Matte is amazing. I actually paused to look at it for a while because my brain was trying to figure out if it was real or not. "What a sight, I bet they don't even lock their doors" lol. Just saw this sold at auction for $575 a few years back.

To what degree have artists been replace by digital work?

I used to watch this show! Thank you for uploading it. What a gem.

GREAT ART

Boy I tell ya I wish I was older when they were doing this in Hollywood I've could have been another great artist but unfortunately I was born too late. But I was a kid growing up when this technique was being used regularly in film making. I was just starting my journey as an artist. When I discovered matte painting it was becoming an obsolete craft. The computer took over the art world the days of doing spectacular paintings on glass were over. It went all to digital these days. So as an artist I make matte paintings in my studio for fine art purposes than for film making. At least I can always do the craft.

very informative, but i don't understand how the painting is combine with the actual scene, do they shoot them again together after projection?

I wonder if any of these 'art works' were kept and honored as art ?

Excellent image quality. It's rip from Japan LaserDisk?

Incredible. Just 10 mins of watching this has answered centuries of questions I've had about movies.

Pretty soon you won't even need digital artists

True artisans - can’t be many left

Very insightful, it is just stunning and beautiful what these artist have achieved. Thank you for sharing this.

Traditional Matte Painting is true art...we hope more people would keep it alive even with the Digital Matte Painting made using computers today.

Even though much has been digitized these days, the basic principles remain the same.

I still see people doing matte paintings even though many them use a drawing tablet and a program like Photoshop.
The results are impressive nonetheless. 🙂

Now it is called generative fill :D