Matte Painting for Cinema
Presentation
A course by Koke Nunez , Matte Painter and digital artist
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“I am a digital artist from Seville. I have been working freelance for more than five years and dedicate myself to the film industry, currently working in Core Animation on an animated film distributed by Warner Bros. My technique has always been digital illustration and photomanipulation, although it has been advancing over the years, evolving and adapting to current times until reaching the world of matte painting . I remember watching the movie Avatar in the cinema and saying: I want to do that one day. At that time, I decided to take action and try to do projects of this type on my own until I became specialized in it.”
In this video lesson Koke Nunez addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Matte Painting for Cinema. Learn the basic concepts, techniques, and 2D processes to create movie scenes.
Partial transcription of the video
“PRESENTATION Hi, how are you? I am Koke Núñez and welcome to this course. I am a graphic designer and digital artist and since I was young I have been self-taught. I have learned doing online courses, watching online tutorials ... etc. At first I was doing photomontages, digital retouching, I created my own worlds and landscapes. And all this comes from my love and inspiration from the film world. Of all the series, documentaries, shorts, films, etc. As I was watching more movies, series, documentaries, etc., I discovered the world of matte painting, what basically is creating scenarios out...”
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Course summary for: Matte Painting for Cinema
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Art Direction, Film, Matte Painting, Photo Retouching, Photographic Composition, Photography Post-production, Photomontage

Koke Nunez
A course by Koke Nunez
Koke is a digital artist from Seville, creator of fantastic worlds and impossible landscapes. He is dedicated to the world of film VFX, specializing in creating Environments and MattePainting. He studied graphic design, although he spent the following years learning techniques and software in a self-taught way. His art has evolved from 2D to 3D through 2.5D. His skills cover both 2D image manipulation and the creation of fully 3D environments, as well as terrain, assets, skies, clouds, vegetation, etc.
He has worked in the film industry for VFX studios such as Cinesite, Jellyfish Pictures, Pixomondo Toronto, Skydance, Core Animation or DivideTv. He has also created a 12+ hour course with the prestigious online VFX school Gnomon Workshop on Environment Mattepainting 3D.
Currently, he works as a freelance Environments and MattePainting artist for the VFX world.
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