Creating an Epic Matte Painting Shot, Advanced Techniques with Igor Staritsin

Creating an Epic Matte Painting Shot, Advanced Techniques with Igor Staritsin

In this lecture, Igor Staritsin takes you through the entire process of creating the epic matte shot. He starts from painting a few thumbnails and covering artistic essentials, which are invaluable in the way of understanding the fundamental principles of successful art. Then he starts painting compositional sketch and establishing mood of the painting. Igor uses Maya in order to create a base model for the architectural pieces and then he proceeds in Photoshop creating high-end environment using a broad range of advanced techniques. Finally, he utilizes Nuke to set up camera projection and to establish the final comp. Along the way, Igor covers a lot of necessary aspects of what it takes to be a successful painter, what should be taken into account when dealing with landscape paintings and what should be avoided to make a painting be enjoyable to the audience. He also shares a lot of technical aspects of matte-painters’ job and demonstrates how to use them in order to be more efficient.

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