Matte Painting: Creating Photorealistic Worlds
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Course overview
- Provider
- Domestika
- Course type
- Paid course
- Level
- Beginner
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Lessons
- 14 lessons
- Certificate
- Available on completion
- Course author
- Carles Marsal
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In this course, Carles Marsal teaches you his own technique for creating photorealistic worlds using the fundamentals of matte painting. Working from an initial sketch, compose a realistic scene from photographs, and incorporate each element using Brushes and proper lighting. Unleash your creativity and get astounding results!
Matte painting is a digital technique that allows the artist to create any scene imaginable by perfectly combining photographs and illustrations to achieve hyperrealistic results with astonishing detail. It can be used at a professional level across a range of fields including publishing, advertising, film, and video games.
This course can be taken alongside Carles' other course Secrets of Photomontage and Creative Retouching, where you can take your professional composition, retouching, and photographic lighting techniques a step further.
Description
Start by getting to know Carles Marsal, his work, and his main influences.
Learn to create a sketch to help you develop your matte painting efficiently as well as how to look for the best photographic resources.
Once you've dreamed up your imaginary world, Carles shows you how to select, crop, build, and integrate all the elements into your scene along with some tips for ideal lighting.
Next, discover how to make the overall image believable by working to achieve a harmonious relationship between light and shadow, and add depth to give your landscape mood and character.
Wrap up the course by applying final details such as glimmers of reflected light, particles, focus, and blur for that hyperrealistic finish.
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