Course starts 29 September 2008.

Registration: Closed

Matte Painter, compositor and VFX guru David Luong is back with his updated Matte Painting workshop. This is an intermediate to advanced level matte painting class using Adobe Photoshop as well as using AfterEffects and/or Nuke to composite your design into your final project using Maya. Beginners are welcome as topics covered and class discussions are personal and open to different levels of knowledge. Though it has some beginner’s topics, it will quickly get into more advanced areas.

Students will learn the technical and artistic secrets needed to create high quality matte paintings as well as be exposed to professional art direction to further understand what is needed to make a shot look photo-real.

Some topics that will be covered are:

• Setting up the canvas and going from Concept to Matte Painting
• Painting, Cloning, Photo Manipulation and Layer techniques
• Color theory, Perspective, and Light/Shadow concepts
• Setting up 2D, 2.5D, and 3D Projection and compositing techniques using Photoshop, After Effects, Nuke, and Maya

David has worked on feature films like Underworld; Evolution, Superman Returns and Night at the Museum just to name a few.

Have a look at David’s Showreel here.

Matte paintings give clients a vision of a full environment that will save money and time. Efficient use of matte paintings will create grand visions of the past, future or present that can’t be done practically because of time or budget constraints. Matte Paintings can show us Sci-Fi visions of a metropolis, epic Fantasy landscapes, or be as invisible as ever day set extensions. Even though environments are going more fully 3D these days, a partially 3D or 2D matte painting can give the illusion of being fully 3D if implemented correctly.

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Course starts 25 February 2008.

Registration: Closed

In this brand new online workshop, Matte Painter and Compositing guru David Luong, will reveal the secret behind creating realistic matte paintings.

Over these eight weeks, the topics that will be covered are:

• Setting up the canvas and going from Concept to Matte Painting
• Painting, Cloning, Photo Manipulation and Layer techniques
• Color theory, Perspective, and Light/Shadow concepts
• Setting up 2D, 2.5D, and 3D Projection and compositing techniques using Photoshop, After Effects, Nuke, Maya and/or 3D Studio Max

David has worked on feature films like Underworld; Evolution, Superman Returns and Night at the Museum just to name a few.

Have a look at David’s Showreel here.

This is an intermediate to advanced level class that will cover topics on matte painting through use of Adobe Photoshop, and how to composite them into their final project using their choice of compositing and 3D application. Beginners are welcome as well as topics covered and class discussions are personal and open to different levels of knowledge. Students will learn the technical and artistic knowledge needed to do matte paintings through the tutorials and projects. Students will be given the proper art direction so that they understand what is needed to make a shot look photo-real.

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