A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that...

scenic vista or a starfield with planets). In this case, the matte is the background painting. In film and stage, mattes can be physically huge sections...

surrounding a painting or watercolor within the outer frame Matte (filmmaking), filmmaking and video production technology Matte painting, a process of...

It is difficult to categorize what a matte painting shot is today... Most filmmakers still call what we do matte shots, and we like that because we see...

games, motion tracking usually refers more to match moving. Matte painting: A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant...

extensive miniature and matte painting work. From 1910 to 1920, the main innovations in special effects were the improvements on the matte shot by Norman Dawn...

1940) is an American stop-motion animator, known for model-animation, matte painting, and for his work on When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), a theme-sequel...

front. One of the convoy cars going over a cliff was a combination of matte painting background and stop motion animation of miniature figures falling out...

on-screen graphic (Bug or DOG) Graphics coordinator Image stitching Matte painting Video matting Motion graphic design Multiple exposure Photographic mosaic...

moves convincingly across the matte painting. It also permitted the actors to move unrestrictedly within a matte painting, and the camera tracks them within...

make everything work into the frame." For the matte paintings, Ellenshaw and Lloyd executed over 57 paintings on glass, which were then optically combined...

of the castle has been flipped and the building was expanded with a Matte painting depicting a copy of the right facade to the left of the main tower....

a handbook on digital matte painting, The Digital Matte Painting Handbook. David B. Mattingly (2011), The Digital Matte Painting Handbook, Indianapolis...

Andersson has made use of similar techniques in his feature films. Matte painting is a variant of trompe-l'œil, and is used in film production with elements...

original comic book, but the moment when Scott Pilgrim is pushed through a matte painting generic cityscape to reveal the CN Tower was only added for the film...

and detailed with various kit parts. The ship was represented by a matte painting when Princess Leia sees it for the first time, showing the full upper...

Otherworldly Adventures of Tyler Washburn. Cole co-authored the book D'artiste Matte Painting: Digital Artists Master Class in which he shares of his work process...

and photographed matte shots for feature films. From 1984 to 1988 he was matte photography supervisor, working to combine matte paintings and miniatures...

Welles's masterpiece Citizen Kane were released. Citizen Kane made use of matte paintings, miniatures and optical printing techniques. The film noir genre was...

park setting, while the final third of the frame was filled with a matte painting. On August 8, the day after production began at Paramount, an 11-person...

effects like Ehrenreich's lasso tricks, period effects including a matte painting of Rome that referenced the 1951 film Quo Vadis, and effects intended...

Glass painting or glass painter might refer to either technique, but more usually enamelled glass. It may also refer to the cinematic technique of matte painting...

stage, Stage 12. For the scene where the airship drops water ballast, a matte painting was used, and sugar was dropped through a hole in the windows as water...

three-dimensional graphics were also made for the display on the remote and matte painting a few settings, such as the Bed and Beyond warehouse, a city background...

110-foot (34 m) crane. The location's blue-gray sky was replaced with a matte painting that covered the top half of the stairs shot. Many ornamental touches...

M6 Competition and include the Competition Package, plus a special matte painting for the exterior named 'Frozen Gray Metalic'. The interior uses a special...

they did on "Accelerate". That same year, they won the Outstanding Matte Painting in a Televised Program, Music Video, or Commercial award for "Insurgence"...

industry best known for his matte painting work on Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back. As traditional and digital matte artist, he created some...

(1935) Dancing Pirate (1936, matte painting) Going My Way (1944, matte paintings) The Bells of St. Mary's (1945, matte paintings)[citation needed] The Miracle...

crew from these. To accomplish this the studio created a 2.5D digital matte painting of the reflected environment. They then rotoscoped out the parts of...