Matte Painting for Cinema
Matte painting: how is it done?
A course by Koke Nunez , Matte Painter and digital artist
About the video: Matte painting: how is it done?
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you several real examples of film blockbusters. I will stop at each element that has to do with matte painting to explain what the work of a matte painter consists of, and I will tell you about various technical details. Also, we will see in a precise way everything that surrounds this work, since it is very specific and little known.”
In this video lesson Koke Nunez addresses the topic: Matte painting: how is it done?, 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
“MATTE PAINTING HOW IS IT DONE? In this lesson, we will see how to do matte painting. with examples of film productions. Also, we'll see a professional example of mine and how I worked with the production teams. Let's see it. I bring you two examples, there are millions of examples, but these two seemed quite interesting and then after looking at these examples we'll look at a real exercise of mine from a production for an IKEA ad. Okay, let's look at this first. Okay, so what do we have here? It's the "Robin Hood" movie, that came out in 2018. Let's see this plane. Hence, what do you think ...”
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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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