interesting

Matte Painting is awesome!

Great entry Andrew, hope to see more stuff like this soon!

WOW!

I believe they did something similar in LOTR for Rivendel.

Thanks for sharing.

nice

That’s pretty good timing. I just got a request to make a few of these for a pilot and was wondering around for inspiration. Thanks for the post.

Always interested, but mind boggling to me with certain shots.

Looks very interesting. I’ve never posted here, but visit often. Thanks for the tips, Andrew.

Very interesting =)
Thanks

Wow some of those were real impressive!

I find it interesting that a lot of the things we just saw would have been done as miniatures with a motion control camera at one time…

cool. The Set Extensions tutorial helped me out a lot understanding it…its a beautiful concept.

Thats awesome.

Many years ago (about 15) I watched a documentary about matte artists…it was awesome! At the time i was amazed when i’ ve got aware of how many movies I watched used matte painting and i didn´t know it at all!!
after that I always give special attention when I watch a movie, trying to figure out what elements could be matte painting and what could not.
Excuse if my english isn’t very good, I never had a teacher.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us…I’ m almost 40 years old, and I work as video editor since 1995, I started with linear edition, and since 2000 I use Adobe Premiere (my first experience was with version 4.2), but I was almost givin up in my attempts to learn after effects until I found VideoCopilot.net
Thanks again Andrew, you are amazing!

Wow. Some of those shots were just incredible. Gotta love Photoshop for matte painting

Over the last year i have been looking into matte painting alot because it always fascinated me no end, even the hand painted ones on things like Star wars and Indiana Jones (those artists had some skill)

http://www.mattepaintinguk.com/portfolio/

Is a good site to show the talent coming from the Uk

Thanks for posting those videos they were pretty intresting

Jinks

Hey! Buddy That’s Cool

Reeeeeeeediculous. Man I love my job.

RELICULUS!!!! DUDE MAN!!!! KRAMERS ROCKS!!!!!

Hawsumness

I there any possibily to get those as a wallpaper size or something. I love them

very nice, Andrew you want to do some tutorial with Realflow? am interested in learning

I like tghe music in the reel so much. so relaxing. chill out and house music in the mix . Andrew we are waiting for the Vlog.:D

this is amazing, really hard work though lol

Really great Stuff Andrew!
Would like to see a tutorial from you about matte paintings.
I did a matte painting,too. But the camera movement was done in AE.
I dont had time for camera projection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl84sbNYUo4&fmt=18

Greets and keep up the good posts Andrew

Timo

PS: Sorry for my bad english – I’m german

I’ll probably work with this
i love it!

Very nice. Would like to see more of this, maybe a tutorial?

Those videos were absolutely amazing

i agree with andrew! One of my friends is a matte painter ( or rather he loves matte painting ) and they are really cool things to do!! They really bring life to the scene! These digital paintings can make some unbelievable things seem real!

sweet… thanks for the post!

Great entry Andrew, hope to see more soon

very interesting i must do some more research on matte painting

i love matte painting , back in the day you showed us sam passing by a land that slided to his side i hope we can see some cool matte painting tutorial soon where sam or sam walking in chernobyle.

I never thought of those “pictures in the background of old movies” matte paintings… But they are! Although you can always tell!

This is exactly where my head is at.. Got to admit, After Effects brought me into the digital scene, but as I learn more and more, I want to do harder and more convincing VFX, and it has brought me all the way to 3d modeling now, and digital matte painting, so im glad to see that you put some info on this up, because with the technology there is today, anyone who can do a matte painting, and has a green screen with a decent camera and some editing skills can do their own movie and replace every shot if they had to with great matte paintings. Like sincity. Im gonna try it. =)

Nice works! just one question, are there gonna be tutorials for ACTION MOVIE ESSENTIALS 2? Thanks!

Also check it out this one

http://www.meduzarts.com/

Really interesting. Would all this be done with Photoshop or could you do matte paintings in after fx?

Awesome~! but i’m too lazy to read the tutorial.. Why don’t you make a video tutorial about matte painting~!?

I watched both of the reel they are awesome. But I have a question about the second reel (watch this one too), at the opening the dead body’s scene where about of wanted is that? because I have seen wanted but that scene was not in there.

Oh boy, thanks for putting that google link in there Andrew I really would not have known what to do without it.
Puh…

Wow that’s really interesting and the pictures from the post are amazing!

A_HA_HA_HA!!! KRAMERS PAINTER! I make the painter yes? SOCKS DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They paint like 5 days for this..

I know you have done a few tutorials with different elements that putting them together would result in a complete matte painting tutorial (06, 37, 42, 45, 87, 93), but how about making one specific to matte painting?

Speaking of matte painting, I can’t help mentioning Dylan Cole. Check his reel on http://www.dylancolestudio.com Simply amazing.

Would a matchmoving program be required to make most of those matte paintings seen in the Hatch reels?

not all the time, sometimes you can use still video and add a pan or tilt yourself in after effects. other times you an use AE trackers to help out. only if the motion of the video has a parallax change then you would need a matchmoving software. even AEmocha can do basic 3D tracking. with the help of red giants warp.

Nice Stuff

I hope this is a hint for an upcoming tutorial Mr. Kramer! I’ve always dreamed about creating my own fantasy world.

How did the achieve the matte paintings in the Jesse James films? Did they roto out the actors?

You can bump elbows with top order professional matte painters and hollywood conceptual artists here:

http://www.sijum.com

There are people who post here who are world class.
The interaction between the pros, the up and coming and the amatures is considerable.

A lot of the subject matter borders on the infantile but the technical skills and talents are huge.

Scope out: Gallery/Finished Work

Oops!!!
Wish there was an edit function here!

The URL is: http://forums.sijun.com

Sorry ’bout that…

I haven’t seen the jesse james films but i know roto has been around since the 80’s and back then it was a tedious method, today is much simpler and sometimes you don’t have to roto you can just use a blue or green screen and replace that with the matte painting in the back of the actor. Don’t forget the parallax.

Parallax is what makes matte painting convincing. is the key to the illusion. walt disney practically invented the technique. After Effects has a very simple way of doing basic matte paintings, but if you want more options for parallax in a matte painting and not have to go to a 3D package you need something like fusion or nuke which can have 3d projection (which after effects does have but it’s a little weird in setting up) and bring in 3d objects.

Such a great post. I think we all would like to see more about Matte Painting and 3D mattes in the future. Your ‘Set Extensions’ tutorial is, after all, a class favorite…

Thanks for always keeping things interesting Andrew!

are you making a tutorial on camera mapping with Cinema 4D an AE?

That would be awesome!!!

Really interesting

you should also watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR73AfQoRWk
it shows about building Babel tower in the center of London =) Very spectacular!

ooops…. That youTube video is’t full version…
Here is it: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x40kpz_mattepainting-making-of-londons-bab_3d

Making the tower of Babel!

This Very Big Step For Video Tutorials If You Give Us Tuts.
But I think it’s very hard work for AE !!

I’ve got a friend who’s getting into matte painting. Her portfolio’s here: http://mmace.cgsociety.org/gallery/786810/.

Check this page out,some nice before and after’s.

http://davidluong.net/subpages/mattepainting.html

so u went into matt painting..interesting.looks like u get highly inspired by the cg world and its activites andrew,me too. matt painting is hard. i prefer to make my models in 3d and just render them as if they were matt paintings (usinf toon shaders or ink&paint). what do u think andrew?

For who’s interested: FXPHD has a couple of Matte Painting classes. I subscribed to one last term, but due to limited time I haven’t been able to get into it yet.

Nice information thank you anDrew

Awesome post Andrew you frreakin rock thanks so much!

Loved it! nice info thanks Andrew

Awesome! Is it possible to do this in After Effects?

So amazing. matte painting is sp incredible. You have to be a a real pro to do something like that. You also need so much creativity. It takes so long to create a single shot adding matte painting to it, but it semms to worth anyway. Thank you Andrew for introducing us to that topic
greets from Germany
melle

hi Andrew, that was a realy good topic \./

wow, it’s very cooooool

ohhh this is the moment i was waiting for …. hmmm i’m not gonna off my computer until this arrives

nice stuff AK…!

Hye MYU. Until what arrives?

ti is amazing
i am editor by avid and adobe premire software.
Now i whant to learn After Effects
Thank you Andrew

Like the post, very interesting!
Altough this site is more about compisiting of course, but is there a possibility to see a tutorial about matte-painting maybe some time?
I know the concept of how it works, but some explanation about the camera tracking to add in large scale 3d in the scene would be very handy. (by example the shot of the river in the Hatch demoreel, i know that shot is very complicated, so something more simple is just as fine)

Greetings

You know Andrew kind of taught us this with the set extensions that is if you change some things

damn i cant matte paint but it really helps me understand the work and makes me better compositor…

Awesome. I think matte paintings are truly breath taking.

Lott of matepainting in net is kitsch, Bird, waterfalling, moutain, megalomaniac fatasy.

yah .. matte painting what took my mind last 3 years ago .. i’ll upload a demo reel soon been workin on it last 2 months ..

thanks andrew .. . ur tips and tutorials make me good @ motion graphixxx

Hey! Would be nice if you could make something like a beginner tutorial for this! Awesome stuff Mr. Kramer!!

Here’s mine from a recent project. I made Toronto really, really depressing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkdqN2hzYuM

Its really great to know this stuff. Respect.

Truly inspiring to see what true artist can do.

Awesome content, I like how you’re mixing it up with this kind of stuff. When I’m not following one of Videocopilot.net’s awesome tutorials I love nothing more than researching all aspects of video and animation. I don’t know if it’s cool to post links but I found a very, very useful article on green screening a couple of days ago that helped me out with some really crummy footage (that I’d filmed…doh!) at http://www.photoshopforvideo.com/conferences/maclive/AEGreenscreen.pdf

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/set_extensions/

Andrews tut on matte painting.. Not much, but gives you an idear on how to get started!

I love Matte Painting

Greeting from Chile.

you are amazing Andrew !

thats great.. very informative. Thanks

Dude extend the tutorials into matte painting! Then we can all incorporate the two types of tutorials together and make something astronomical! Oh and by the way I saw an advertisement for a Skits Mix CD coming out here in Australia, the newblet used one of your tutorials down to detail and didn’t do anything creative, if he can make money from being able to follow your instructions, i should be able to make money with my creativity

danm,thanks man ur our father man.

Very cool. I would like to point you guys to Dylan Cole as well he is a super good matte painter. I have his tutorials and they are great. check him out http://www.dylancolestudio.com/

Really great Stuff Andrew!
Would like to see a tutorial from you about matte paintings.
I did a matte painting,too. But the camera movement was done in AE.
I dont had time for camera projection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl84sbNYUo4&fmt=18

Greets and keep up the good posts Andrew

Timo

PS: Sorry for my bad english – I’m german

I am looking into a crystal ball and I see a matte painting tutorial from Andrew Kramer in the not so distant future…
Also, Mr.K, I am holiday in Northern Cyprus and I saw an advert for a TV company called Digi-Turk and they had used your Speed particle effect and the music was from your sound collection.
Pretty Kkkkrazzeee … considering the population is only 250,000!

You’re the man!

wow! super, wonderful…

Awesome Andrew !

Wait for Your camera mapping tutorial !

i like this art so much
watch this links guys it will be great to watch

http://zakzak008.deviantart.com/art/The-Old-Castle-130797721

http://zakzak008.deviantart.com/art/The-Lady-Of-Egypt-129071751

IS MAKE ANDRE KRAMERS >>???? YES ????

Check out the work of the amazing Ron Crabb who is responsible for some famous Matte Paintings…he did X-men for example. You will be surprised to see what is actually fake in the movies:

http://www.crabbdigital.com/NEW_COMM/NEW_Pages/NEW_CD_Mattes_001.html

District 9 will have some crazy matte painting as well it looks like. Thanks for the post.

jeff i was thinking of that too , i made some district 9 concepts and i hope andrew can show us how to put the alienship in our shot.http://www.behance.net/clancy30

I see that someone already mentioned the work of Ron Crabb. Check him out on Lynda.com’s “Creative Inspirations” series:

http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=690

I’m just follow your tutos 5 mouths ago and it’s all incridible, cause this 3d pic is like in portuguese (maravilhoso) amazing, keep this way and keep send this tutos. thanks

Here i followed andrew tutorial on set extention and applied the idea on to this footage and its very simple to understand how he did it and use your own imagination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3mOz2nXm8o

yeah absolutely, thats true Andrew. I already researched this 2 years ago and also found few great tips as well

Really nice to have this topic in the Blog.

gr8 going as usual Andrews, Thanks!

this is so cool, i love all your tutorial..i know your pretty good in 3d max, can you make also tutorial for realflowa?

thank you..

he he, District 9, finally aliens land somewhere else but the USA, he he. And thirty years ago allready!

It’s weird seing johannesburg on the big screen living here and all.

Can’t wait to see the effects in the movie.

-Derrick

Gnomon has some great training on 3D camera projection mapping techniques and 3D Matte painting.

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/81/camera-projection-Techniques-in-Maya

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/43/3D-Matte-Painting-and-Camera-Mapping

This is probably one of the most difficult and artistic skills in all of VFX.

MELLE until this tutorial arrives….

thanks for the topic AK i already asked u for matte painting tuts and also i told that i hope ur next dvd will b about matte painting tut bro n am still waiting for bro thanks again

when we see it????????

what an amazin hatch vid …..
I LOVE VIDEOCOPILOT.net
man!!!!! you rock …. soo much info

http://www.dylancolestudio.com/

what about a 3d camera mapping tutorial? that would be great in your words….
thanks andrew…………

hi Andrew, that was a realy awesome!
thanks

Very cool!

Cool Andrew!

that was very inspiring sir Andrew… very very inspiring…=)

Very nice

It makes me remember one of your old tuorials, the set extension to be more precise.

another great stuff..

Awesome!

It would be even more awesome if you made a tutorial/educational video on this

Matte Painting is awesome,

I would love to see more of this stuff in your tutorials – they are so useful!!

3D camera mapping on this would be amazing!

Thanks again for another interesting read Mr Kramer!

Very good ideas. And mattes don’t just have ot be used as backgrounds; possibly while using AE2 you need a burned car. wink. wink. Matte paintings work in many different ways. Speaking of awesme stuffs, any updates on the mini-movie? You know everyone is thinking about it :p

Very good ideas. And mattes don’t just have ot be used as backgrounds; possibly while using AE2 you need a burned car. wink. wink. Matte paintings work in many different ways. Speaking of awesme stuffs, any updates on the mini-movie? You know everyone is thinking about it :p

Wow, this is amazing! If it wasn’t for the obvious, you couldn’t tell the before and after shots apart, cause they look so good! Even though I understand the basic of how they did most of this, I still ask myself the same question again and again… How? It’s videos like these that make me feel like video editing is just too much hard work, but at the same time inspire me to keep practicing. Fantastic work!

Marius, Norway

here is another great use of A ESS 2 ,A still image can be very intresting with this powerfull product.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjCwUdtFW_k

it is amazing how much matte painting is used

Hey great stuff AK. For anyone who is interested in more of this stuff check out Ron Crabb’s creative inspiration on lynda.com. He’s a really good matte painter did some big movies.

Interesting article! Thanks Kramer.
My firts matte paitings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjGrVljP5wA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNopAUH9onk&feature=channel_page

I love matte paintings!
check out my work at:
http://youtube.com/user/emmenworkz

Hey Andrew..Thanks for a great post.Matte painting is a fabulous art.It has a great ability to hold a visitors eye on it most of the times.

Its great website for your north cyprus holidays http://www.a1cyprus.com

North cyprus has got lots of beatiful pictures natural and real