A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that is not present at the filming location. Historically, matte painters and film technicians have used various techniques to combine a matte-painted image with live-action footage (compositing). At its best, depending on the skill levels of the artists and technicians, the effect is "seamless" and creates environments that would otherwise be impossible or expensive to film. In the scenes the painting part is static and movements are integrated on it. Traditionally, matte paintings were made by artists using paints or...

Throughout the 1990s, traditional matte paintings were still in use, but more often in conjunction with digital compositing. Die Hard 2 (1990) was the first film to use digitally composited live-action footage with a traditional glass matte painting that had been photographed and scanned into a computer. It was for the last scene, which took place on an airport runway. By the end of the decade, the time of hand-painted matte paintings was drawing to a close, although as late as 1997 some traditional paintings were still being made, notably Chris Evans’ painting of the RMS Carpathia rescue ship in James Cameron’s Titanic. Paint has now been superseded...

How the dachshund works - Polish animated short film by Julian Antonisz- Polish visual artist, screenwriter and author of experimental animated films, composer and inventor. The film uses unconventional film techniques such as cut-out, drawing, filming of mixing fluids, as well as scratching images and drawing directly onto film, called the non-camera technique. The music for the film was created and recorded by the director himself. During the film, a commentary is read from behind the frame, similar to documentary films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r16GL3N4PdM In many of his films, Antonisz deliberately employed unprepared amateurs as readers - in the case of How it Works...

This is the final set of images for the unpredictabiliy and control, combined with the "Look at the order in which you do things" prompt card. This is a journey through my imagination and ideas for creating different worlds from my childhood. The background (hand-painted) and the props used to create the entire set are to show the simplicity of children's games. Smoke is part of the unpredictability of this work (along with my dog who decided to join me during the shoot). The light is the control part - I will be 100% setting up the lights and controlling the...

Success evokes positive emotions and makes us think of ourselves as a causative and valuable entity, socially desirable. The event as such becomes the basis for inference about our own subject. The situation begins to evolve in us as information about our e.g. intelligence or professionalism. "I'm so great," I start to think. A single failure or a series of failures - an unsuccessful relationship, a low grade in an exam or a lack of promotion - in turn causes negative emotions. Otherwise, rightly so, because only thanks to them it can become a developmental and valuable lesson. They pinch us...

The first task in ARD 514- "Creative Lens-based Media" is to create a work that combines unpredictability and control in one work. done which is controlled/influenced by your diagonal strategy card. The strategy card drawn to me reads: Look at the order in which you do things. My work on the alter ego project from last semester will be the starting point for this task. My alter ego is a creator. It creates my whole world. I am the creator of my world. I let in this world only what I want it to be there I am a creator, but...

Dylan Cole is a leading matte painter and concept artist specializing in work for film, television, and video games. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in fine art, he took his painting skills to the computer. He got his start with a brief stint at Illusion Arts on Time Machine. Smaller jobs as a matte painter and concept artist led to him working at Rhythm and Hues on Daredevil. He then left his native California to go to New Zealand to be a senior matte painter on Return of the King for Weta Digital. He returned to the US...