8 Week Course Project Files Included FLV

Blizzard Entertainment’s David Luong returns to CGWorkshops with an updated Matte Painting workshop. The  workshop will be in two 8 week semesters (the first class prepares you for the second, but you don’t need  to take both.) In Part 1, David will work with you to prepare photoreal matte paintings. In Part 2, you  will learn to setup 2.5D and 3D camera moves to your matte paintings and learn how to composite them In Part 1, David says, “I’ll be leading students through the process of creating a photo real matte painting for film or high end animation such as realistic and invisible right through to Sci-Fi and fantasy landscapes and city scapes. This is not a concept painting class but rather a photo realistic or hyper realistic class. We’ll use digital painting to enhance the look of textures, lighting, scale and create photo real backdrops that will serve story and characters in a universe.”

The goal is having three matte paintings done by the end of this course: an invisible matte painting, a landscape, and a cityscape.

This class is aimed at advanced beginner to intermediate Photoshop CS5 or higher users. Recommended pre- requisite classes to take before this are digital painting using Photoshop, Photography, and concept sketching for environments.