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"The Digital Matte Painting Handbook is the best book of its kind. Mattingly has created an insightful and inspiring resource for anyone wanting to get into digital matte painting."
--Dylan Cole, matte artist, concept artist
The Digital Matte Painting Handbook is a thoughtful, detailed and well illustrated reference that is sure to become a standard in compositing and special effects curricula.
--Peter Patchen, Chairperson, Department of Digital Arts, Pratt Institute
This is exactly the kind of book I wish was around when I started 20 years ago.
--Eric Chauvin, matte artist, owner of Blackpool Studios
, ' An engaging, well-written book that is designed neither to bore nor to overwhelm...fantastic investment for would-be matte painters.' (3D Artist, July 2011).
From the Back Cover
Create Stunning Backgrounds for Film, Video, Games, and AdsIf you want to create digital matte paintings that blend seamlessly into live-action footage, this is the perfect guide. Author David Mattingly was head of the Disney Studios Matte Department and has been a matte artist on major motion pictures such as The Black Hole, Dick Tracy, and I, Robot. In this unique how-to book and DVD, he teaches you his stellar techniques.
You'll start with rough concept sketches in Photoshop and learn to add perspective, create light and shadow, add texture, and color-correct. Then you'll switch from Photoshop to Adobe After Effects and Autodesk Maya to composite your matte in 3-D and camera-project it. The result? A skill set suitable for Hollywood! Artists of all levels will want this professional handbook on their desks.
Get up to speed on the Photoshop workspace, tools, and custom brushes
Master the essentials—composition, perspective, drawing, color, and form
Create a castle and add illumination, dark shadows, and craggy texture
Change daylight into night or summer into winter
Prepare your Photoshop files for use in Maya camera projection
Learn industry- and classroom-tested tools and techniques
Create a futuristic city over a moving plate
Make scenes go from day to night
Set up a vision of Hades in After Effects 3D space
Contains all the files needed to complete the projects in the book as well as companion videos to help drive home concepts.
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- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (April 12, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470922427
- ISBN-13: 978-0470922422
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.1 x 10 inches
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Free The Digital Matte Painting Handbook
"How did they do that?", always comes to mind when I see an amazing background, set or stunning landscape that doesn't exist anywhere when I'm watching a movie.
Matte Painting was the art of painting on glass, but is now created digitally. A matte is used to incorporate a digitally painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build or to extend an existing set to make it appear larger and more impressive.
Anyone who has thought about a career in digital matte painting and wanted to seek out the techniques and skills needed to get into this film making art, no longer has to just imagine how it's done. The Digital Matte Painting Hand book by David Mattingly will teach you. You get to unlock the secrets to an amazing array of techniques that are essential to any artist who wants to learn the craft. From initial concept to a vast number of advanced techniques used in Photoshop, After Effects and Maya you'll be guided through the matte painting process. Everything is unveiled and nothing is left out here. There are wonderful chapters about understanding perspective and applying this essential part of creating convincing and accurate buildings and time saving techniques in Photoshop that will make your task less stressful and highly rewarding.
Never before has a book on Matte painting revealed so much and well described as with the Digital matte Painting Handbook. It delivers what it promises. Unlike other books on the subject that show nice finished paintings, but offer precious little in how they were created.
Matte painting has always fascinated me. As far back as my movie-watching memory can take me, I've been interested in that effects process probably more than any other. Good, bad or indifferent, I loved everything about them. Nearly 30 years ago, I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Al Whitlock, a gracious man who took the time and trouble to give me a thorough tour of his studio at Universal, pulling out painting after painting---even showing his sample reel to a gaping admirer. It wasn't really a visit...it was for me something more like a pilgrimage. In all the time since then I've eagerly wanted to try my hand at matte painting (I am by profession an illustrator)---and have had perhaps three or four opportunities to do so (though a couple of these entailed having a chance to traditional glass mattes, which was pretty cool). But...I really knew nothing at all about the technical processes---especially those required for digital matte painting. Everything I knew was strictly academic. Now, thanks to Mattingly's extraordinary book the veil has been lifted from many mysteries. I'm several hundred miles away from his classroom, but his evocative, easy-going style and crystal-clear explanations make me feel as though he is looking over my shoulder. I may never have a chance to do a real matte painting for a real movie...but I'll sure be ready if the opportunity ever arises!
In addition to being a first-rate course on digital matte painting, this book is a great general introduction to painting with Photoshop. For the professional, it seems that every page contains a new technique that is as applicable to ordinary illustration as it is to matte art. I was particularly impressed by the chapter on perspective---a subject all too often overlooked by both traditional and digital artists.