Matte painting

Matte paintings are mostly used to create virtual sets and digital backgrounds.

They can be used to create entire sets or to extend existing sets.

Traditional Matte paintings used to happen as paintings on a piece of glass.

Optically it was composited with the original footage.

Nowadays this technique has been widely transfered into the digital world,

where 3D graphics allow complex camera projections and movements.

Digital Matte painting involves various medias and techniques,

like 2d painting, the use of photography, 3D texturing, rendering and camera projection.

A digital matte painter often works close together with compositors and 3d artists ...