Digital Matte Painting Exercises: Technical, Digital Matte Painting Sensibilities

22/4/2025 - 1/8/2025 / Week 1 - Week 14

Dow Jia Zheng - 0354184 / 040604-14-1581

Digital Matte Painting / Bachelors of Design in Creative Media / Taylors Lakeside Campus

Digital Matte Painting Exercises: Technical, Digital Matte Painting Sensibilities /  - Individual

INSTRUCTIONS


Links : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T_UrCNoUiAJluG9ggwohnaaks3s4PkIe/view?usp=drive_link



Module Synopsis

Visual Effects with Computer Graphic Imagery (CGI) is prevalent in most blockbuster movies and the craft of matte painting has been used as set extensions to supplement CGI elements in creating the illusion of an environment where budget and time constraints may not allow for full CGI implementation, real sets to be constructed or even filming at the actual locations. 

Students in this module will attain mastery in photo manipulation, day to night, summer to winter, clean up or set extensions creation. Sketching, composition, chiaroscuro, focal points, figure ground relationships, perspective and colour theory knowledge and skill will also be learned, combining traditional and digital tools. 

The module prepares students for the movie production industry to create highly convincing cinematic panoramas with mastery over digital painting and composition skills for scenes and shots. Students will learn various techniques in using drawing, painting and photography to construct 2.5D or 3D scenes in realizing story worlds that are convincing and believable to the audience. A project-based learning method will be adopted with a balance of foundational education and software-based technical training that emphasizes on extensive and in-depth skill development relevant to the demands of the industry. 

The assessment approach involves Continuous Assessment which includes Exercises and Projects that are prescribed throughout the semester while the Final Assessment is a Final Project and Portfolio submission which takes place at the end of the semester.



Digital Matte Painting Exercises




Figures 1.1: Sky Replacement 




Figures 1.2: Sky Replacement Original



Figures 1.3: Virtual Matte Painting Original




Figures 1.4: Virtual Matte Painting 







Exercise Final Submission


Figures 2.0: Digital Matte Painting Exercises: Technical, Digital Matte Painting Sensibilities (PDF)


Links : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kvekW_i6Ejq6BwqqBQvA3_rYOriOKkJ-/view?usp=sharing






Reflection 

The Digital Matte Painting Exercises where I have learned throughout the semester has taught me great deal in the process of how the entertainment industry produce realistic effects from scenery to structure. Where I learn of sky replacement and virtual matte painting. 

Sky Replacement where working on replacing the sky from sunrise to night views where the environment can be manipulated to fit with sky replacement by adding shadow and lighting where I experiment with the Photoshop tools to achieved this.

The Virtual Matte Painting was perhaps the hardest exercise for me grasp and complete as I struggle with achieving the resemblance where I aren't well verse with tools and colors to match that of the original images for my Virtual Matte Painting.  

In the end where I ultimately compile the exercises that I have done thus far into a single compilation and from what I have learn throughout working on the exercise is that my skills with using the tools from photoshop needed to be improved upon where other than that it has been valuable learning experience. 





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