Matte Painting for Cinema
Kinematic atmospheres
A course by Koke Nunez , Matte Painter and digital artist
About the video: Kinematic atmospheres
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn to give your matte painting very cinematic atmospheres. You will add fog effects, clouds, light beams, depth effects, brightness, etc.”
In this video lesson Koke Nunez addresses the topic: Kinematic atmospheres, 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
“KINEMATIC ATMOSPHERES In this lesson we will add elements like clouds, fog or sparkles, that will give matte painting cinematographic atmospheres. I show you. What I'm going to do here is start with heaven. Here. I'm going to make these clouds out of here have an intensity similar to these, because they look a bit dark. So... these are here and, if I'm not mistaken, you're here. Yes, this one exactly. And what I'm going to do is add levels and remove the grays, lighten them up a bit. No, not levels because it affects everything. We are going to do a selective color correction. Let's take th...”
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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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