Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I believe Bob Scifo (spelling) is another one. I am familiar with the current processes. As a sidebar I represent a group of CG artists in the Ukraine - all formally trained artists that happen to like working in the CG world. Amazing work. Most keyboard jockeys here have little art experience. Jay Ignaszewski -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of Feli Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 6:24 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: 35mm film cameras These days pretty much all matte painting is done in Photoshop. Some scenes are painted from scratch and others pieced together from vast image libraries. These artists have massive archives of skies, textures etc that they integrate into their paintings. Sort of a photorealistic collage. Other times they will build a quick mock up from basic shapes in a 3d package like Maya (imagine a 3d drafting program) to get the perspective right and then paint the photorealistic textures on top of that skeleton in Photoshop. Very interesting work. Some of these folks are incredible talented and are always in high demand. Here is one guy who's been around a long time and made the transition from paint and palette to bits and bytes. http://www.svengalifx.com/ feli On Apr 24, 2005, at 4:45 AM, Jay wrote: > there aren't many matte painters out there anymore. A 2D painted > translation > of a 3D scene - lost art > > Jay Ignaszewski > ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information