Matte Painting for Cinema
Separating the elements 2
A course by Koke Nunez , Matte Painter and digital artist
About the video: Separating the elements 2
Overview
“We continue working on the separation of the elements, discovering different tools for trimming and editing.”
In this video lesson Koke Nunez addresses the topic: Separating the elements 2, 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
“SEPARATING THE ELEMENTS I'm going to take another example make it more complex. This one here. We drag, we stand here ... This already came out a little bit, let's put it here in the center. That is, we say yes. I think it's okay. Right-click, Convert to Smart Object. We can even create a command to make smart objects, as we also said with the guide. But hey, let's open it, we put it inside, we are going to cut it. Only these pinnacles here. We are not interested in this mountain in the background, nor the soil in front of us. So different trimming techniques that I use and we can see. The ...”
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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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