Matte Painting Techniques for ArchViz
The environment
A course by Fran Mateos , Architect
About the video: The environment
Overview
“Next, I will tell you how to make a grass brush to work precisely and naturally the grass in the image itself. I'll also explain how to reverse the original shadow of the render to make the most of all the post-production support channels. ”
In this video lesson Fran Mateos addresses the topic: The environment, which is part of the Domestika online course: Matte Painting Techniques for ArchViz. Optimize your architectural models in an efficient way and enhance the final image through matte painting.
Partial transcription of the video
“The Environment Now we’ll focus on the middle plane. I’ll tell you how to do the lawn, how to mask it, and, more importantly, how to mask it naturally with your brushes. We’ll incorporate all the elements that we thought up in our concept art. Join me, and we’ll have some fun with the middle plane of our scene. Before working on the middle plane, I’d like to tell you how to adjust the brushes and personalize them. Photoshop has this amazing function to create brushes. What does that mean? It’s as simple as creating a new, blank file, I’ll create a layer that consists of a shape, I’ll hit th...”
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Course summary for: Matte Painting Techniques for ArchViz
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Category
Architecture & Spaces -
Areas
ArchVIZ, Digital Architecture, Digital Photography, Matte Painting, Photo Retouching, Photomontage

Fran Mateos
A course by Fran Mateos
Despite specializing in landscapes, as soon as he finished his degree Fran Mateos set his sights on architectural graphic illustration driven by the idea of learning from the projects around him that were underway at the time. He started by collaborating with studios like Poliedro, Idearch, Manu-facturas, and Foster and Partners until he decided to take a break and open his own academy: La Leonera.
After a year of teaching classes, Fran was given the opportunity to work with the studio Nieto Sobejano and he quickly found himself drawn back into the world of architectural visualization. With the knowledge and experience he gained while there, he formed a team and founded Drama, his own architectural communication agency which has collaborated with larger studios in Spain and Europe including Arquitectos Ayala, Vázquez Consuegra, and Unstudio.
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