Introduction to Matte Painting

INTRODUCTION TO MATTE PAINTING

Create realistic Matte Paintings. Increase your expertise with Photoshop. Then build 3d Skills with Maya and Arnold. In the final project, utilize Houdini for Heightfields and Nuke projections to composite your shot.

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Course curriculum

1. Overview of the Portal
1. Introduction
2. Types of Matte Painting and reference
3. Sky Replacement
4. ASSIGNMENT: SKY REPLACEMENT
1. Set Extension Examples
2. Extending the Plate in Photoshop
3. Day for Night
4. ASSIGNMENT: SET EXTENSION
1. Foggy Overcast Lighting Examples
2. Painting in the Fog
3. ASSIGNMENT: OVERCAST SKY SEASCAPE
1. Daytime Reference
2. Daytime Painting with Ancient Reference
3. ASSIGNMENT: DAYTIME LANDSCAPE
1. Sunset/Sunrise Lighting and City Construction
2. Pick Image for Basis of Extending City
3. Creating Extended City in Maya
4. Finish City Renders and Paint in Photoshop
5. ASSIGNMENT: SUNSET FUTURE CITYSCAPE
1. Concept and Thumbnails
2. Tonal Sketch and Color Studies
3. ASSIGNMENT: FINAL PROJECT PART 1 - CONCEPT
1. Begin 3d Blockin
2. Using Heighfields for Landscape
3. Create Geometry and Texturing/Lighting it
4. ASSIGNMENT: FINAL PROJECT PART 2 - LAYOUT/LIGHTING/TEXTURING
1. City Placement, Scattering Elements and Paintwork
2. Animated Camera and Breaking out our layers
3. Final Projections: Maya and Nuke
4. ASSIGNMENT: FINAL PROJECT COMPLETED!

About this course

31 lessons
8.5 hours of video content

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The Assignments

Learn the Basics of Matte Painting

Sky Replacement

Use Photoshop to replace sky seamlessly
Set Extension

Extend the plate and turn it into a day for night shot
Foggy/Overcast Lighting

Create an overcast seascape
Daytime Landscape

Make a daytime ancient landscape
Sunset Futuristic City

Construct a cg city extension in Maya and Photoshop
Final Project

3 Part Final project of your choice using primarily Photoshop and Maya

Take your skills to the next level

Learn, Build, and Create

Follow the lessons in this 8 week course, to learn the fundamentals of matte painting. Fully immerse in Photoshop, level up in Maya, and begin using Houdini and Nuke.
Pre-Recorded

Learn at your own pace with this pre-recorded class. Assignments at end of each lesson. This class is rebundled from an earlier master course I taught. Content is updated and current.
Community

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Meet Eric

Instructor

Eric Bouffard has been a Matte Painter in the Animations Industry for nearly two decades. Currently, he works at Walt Disney Animation Studios and was previously at Dreamworks Animation. Eric has taught various Matte Painting classes for several years at various institutions. Some films that he worked on are: Wish, Strange World, Frozen 2, Encanto, How to Train your Dragon2, Kung Fu Panda, and many many more. He has worked as a Matte Painting Artist, Lead, and Supervisor. Check out Eric's work: www.ericbouffard.com

Eric Bouffard

Matte Painter

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