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The only how-to guide dedicated to mastering the technique of digital matte painting!

Matte painting affords seamless integration between an artist's painting with live action film footage and allows for greater flexibility and creative input in the appearance of movie settings. This unique book reveals a variety of tools and techniques that are both industry and classroom tested and will enhance your existing skill set. Veteran author and instructor David Mattingly walks you through the process of creating a matte painting, starting with rough concept sketches, working out the perspective drawing, adding light and shadow, and texturing all of the elements in the painting. You'll gradually upgrade to using Adobe After Effects and Autodesk Maya in order to fulfill your matte painting vision.
* Escorts you through the process of creating a matte painting, starting with the initial concept sketch, adding light and shadow, texturing elements, and incorporating motion and depth
* Author is an experienced matte artist and teacher and shares a plethora of unique industry- and classroom-tested tools and techniques
* Features helpful step-by-step instructions accompanied by screen shots and photos to illustrate the process of creating a matte painting

Whether you're creating a background for a studio production, independent film, TV commercial, or YouTube video, The Digital Matte Painting Handbook helps you successfully complete your project.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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Matte painting affords seamless integration between an artist's painting with live action film footage and allows for greater flexibility and creative input in the appearance of movie settings. This unique book reveals a variety of tools and techniques that are both industry and classroom tested and will enhance your existing skill set. Veteran author and instructor David Mattingly walks you through the process of creating a matte painting, starting with rough concept sketches, working out the perspective drawing, adding light and shadow, and texturing all of the elements in the painting. You'll gradually upgrade to using Adobe After Effects and Autodesk Maya in order to fulfill your matte painting vision.
* Escorts you through the process of creating a matte painting, starting with the initial concept sketch, adding light and shadow, texturing elements, and incorporating motion and depth
* Author is an experienced matte artist and teacher and shares a plethora of unique industry- and classroom-tested tools and techniques
* Features helpful step-by-step instructions accompanied by screen shots and photos to illustrate the process of creating a matte painting

Whether you're creating a background for a studio production, independent film, TV commercial, or YouTube video, The Digital Matte Painting Handbook helps you successfully complete your project.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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Taschenbuch: 416 Seiten
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons; Auflage: 1. Auflage (8. April 2011)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0470922427
ISBN-13: 978-0470922422
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 20,1 x 2,4 x 25,1 cm

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, 'An engaging, well-written book that is designed neither to bore nor to overwhelm...fantastic investment for would-be matte painters.' (3D Artist, July 2011).

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Create Stunning Backgrounds for Film, Video, Games, and Ads

If you want to create digital matte paintings that blend seamlessly into live-action footage, this is the perfect guide. Author David Mattingly was head of the Disney Studios Matte Department and has been a matte artist on major motion pictures such as The Black Hole, Dick Tracy, and I, Robot. In this unique how-to book and DVD, he teaches you his stellar techniques.

You'll start with rough concept sketches in Photoshop and learn to add perspective, create light and shadow, add texture, and color-correct. Then you'll switch from Photoshop to Adobe After Effects and Autodesk Maya to composite your matte in 3-D and camera-project it. The result? A skill set suitable for Hollywood! Artists of all levels will want this professional handbook on their desks.
* Get up to speed on the Photoshop workspace, tools, and custom brushes
* Master the essentials--composition, perspective, drawing, color, and form
* Create a castle and add illumination, dark shadows, and craggy texture
* Change daylight into night or summer into winter
* Prepare your Photoshop files for use in Maya camera projection
* Learn industry- and classroom-tested tools and techniques

Create a futuristic city over a moving plate

Make scenes go from day to night

Set up a vision of Hades in After Effects 3D space

Contains all the files needed to complete the projects in the book as well as companion videos to help drive home concepts.

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Chapter 1: What Is a Matte Painting?
Chapter 2: Photoshop Workspace, Tools, and Custom Brushes
Chapter 3: Composition and Concept
Chapter 4: Perspective Basics
Chapter 5: Perspective Drawing
Chapter 6: Form
Chapter 7: Texturing and Color Correction
Chapter 8: Preparing Your Photoshop File for Camera Projection in Maya
Chapter 9: Building Geometry for Camera Projection in Maya
Chapter 10: Projecting Textures in Maya
Chapter 11: Lighting Techniques
Chapter 12: Changing Seasons
Chapter 13: Getting Started in After Effects
Chapter 14: Working over a Moving Plate
Chapter 15: Using After Effects' True 3D Space

Man sieht schon an den Kapiteln, dass es auch die Gundlagen des Bildes beschreibt und nicht nur Matte Painting Techniken. Auch wie man Photoshop dafür am Besten einsetzt und wie man sich eigene Brushs macht, freistellen etc. Wer sich also mit Photoshop noch nicht so gut auskennt, bekommt hier noch einmal einen kleinen Crashkurs. Die Grundlagen des Bildaufbaus wie Point of View, Perspektiven und Fokuspunkte werden hier genau erklärt.

Er benutzt die Programme Photoshop, Maya und After Effekts, natürlich kann man auch andere Programme für Matte Paintings benutzt er benutzt eben diese.

Schritt für Schritt wird erklärt worauf man in Photoshop auf die Erstellung des 2D Bildes achten muss.
Die Auflösung des Bildes, die Farbwahl (RGB, CMYK etc.), außerdem werden Compositing Techniken auch genannt Nachbearbeitungstechniken erläutert. Farb- und Kontrastkorrekturen und die Ebeneneinstellungen, um ein bestmögliches Ergebnis zu erzielen.

Er beschreibt wie man Alphakanäle in Photoshop erstellt, die Perspektiven, Point of View, Farbtiefen, Goldener Schnitt etc alles was für ein interessantes Bild wichitg ist wird hier genau, verständlich und sehr übersichtlich beschrieben.

Er arbeitet einmal mit After Effects und einmal mit Maya. Warum?
Nun es gibt unterschiedliche Techniken die Bilder zu projezieren und so einen 3D Effekt zu erzeugen.
After Effects benutzt man, wenn man nur kleine leichte Bewegungen in der Szene/Bild hat (leichter Schwenk der Kamera, Zoomen, Wacheln). Wenn man aber etwas komplizierteres machen will braucht man die Projektion auf ein 3D Objekt in einem 3D Programm.
Beide Methoden erklärt er recht gut und mit vielen Bildern.
Wie modeliere ich dieses 3D Objekt, wie Texturiere ich es und wie animiere ich die Kamera. Das alles wird in diesen Kapiteln erläutert.
Er benutzt dazu 2 unterschiedliche Matte Paintings.

Außerdem wird erklärt wie man seine Photoshop Datei (sein fertiges Matte Painting) vorbereiten muss, damit man es in Maya verwenden kann. Genauso wie schon für Photoshop und die After Effects Version.

Im Buch sind auch immer wieder kleine Interviews von bekannten Matte Paintern, die ein paar Fragen beantworten. Eine schöne Abwechslung und recht informativ.

- Die CD -

Auf der CD befindet sich noch einmal das Tutorial mit After Effects nicht aber mit Maya! Ebenfalls ein paar Texturen die verwendet werden können, um die Projekte nach zu machen.

== Fazit ==

Meine Meinung nach ist der Preis für das Buch recht hoch, aber das ist bei Tutorialbüchern meistens so.
Man ist bei diesem Buch auf die 3 verwendeten Softwares beschränkt, wer also mit 3D Max oder cinema 4D arbeitet anstatt mit Maya hat hier ein kleines Problem, da dort die Kameraprojektion etwas anders abläuft.

Die Schritte sind gut mit Text und Bildern beschrieben und er umfasst ein breites Spektrum. Nicht nur über Matte Painting, sondern auch die Schritte davor, wie Concept Art, Bildaufbau. Auch ein kleiner Crashkurs in Photoshop ist dabei somit auch was für Anfänger.

Mir hat das Buch in meiner Bachelorarbeit gute Dienste geleistet und auch jetzt wo sie geschrieben ist bin ich froh das ich das Buch habe.

Da ich des Englisch mächtig bin hat es mir auch nichts ausgemfacht, dass es auf Englisch ist. Soweit ich weiß gibt es nur sehr wenige auf Deutsch.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen The Digital Matte Painting Handbook by David Mattingly 21. April 2011

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"How did they do that?", always comes to mind when I see an amazing background, set or stunning landscape that doesn't exist anywhere when I'm watching a movie.

Matte Painting was the art of painting on glass, but is now created digitally. A matte is used to incorporate a digitally painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build or to extend an existing set to make it appear larger and more impressive.

Anyone who has thought about a career in digital matte painting and wanted to seek out the techniques and skills needed to get into this film making art, no longer has to just imagine how it's done. The Digital Matte Painting Hand book by David Mattingly will teach you. You get to unlock the secrets to an amazing array of techniques that are essential to any artist who wants to learn the craft. From initial concept to a vast number of advanced techniques used in Photoshop, After Effects and Maya you'll be guided through the matte painting process. Everything is unveiled and nothing is left out here. There are wonderful chapters about understanding perspective and applying this essential part of creating convincing and accurate buildings and time saving techniques in Photoshop that will make your task less stressful and highly rewarding.

Never before has a book on Matte painting revealed so much and well described as with the Digital matte Painting Handbook. It delivers what it promises. Unlike other books on the subject that show nice finished paintings, but offer precious little in how they were created.

The Digital Matte Painting Handbook is a beautiful book with a stunning number of chapters devoted to getting you to finally understand how this amazing craft is performed. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned digital artist The Digital matte painting Handbook will astound and show you once and for all "How did they do that"?

Stephen Youll, Digital Artist

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Wonderful book for both beginner and professional 14. April 2011

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Matte painting has always fascinated me. As far back as my movie-watching memory can take me, I've been interested in that effects process probably more than any other. Good, bad or indifferent, I loved everything about them. Nearly 30 years ago, I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Al Whitlock, a gracious man who took the time and trouble to give me a thorough tour of his studio at Universal, pulling out painting after painting---even showing his sample reel to a gaping admirer. It wasn't really a visit...it was for me something more like a pilgrimage. In all the time since then I've eagerly wanted to try my hand at matte painting (I am by profession an illustrator)---and have had perhaps three or four opportunities to do so (though a couple of these entailed having a chance to traditional glass mattes, which was pretty cool). But...I really knew nothing at all about the technical processes---especially those required for digital matte painting. Everything I knew was strictly academic. Now, thanks to Mattingly's extraordinary book the veil has been lifted from many mysteries. I'm several hundred miles away from his classroom, but his evocative, easy-going style and crystal-clear explanations make me feel as though he is looking over my shoulder. I may never have a chance to do a real matte painting for a real movie...but I'll sure be ready if the opportunity ever arises!

In addition to being a first-rate course on digital matte painting, this book is a great general introduction to painting with Photoshop. For the professional, it seems that every page contains a new technique that is as applicable to ordinary illustration as it is to matte art. I was particularly impressed by the chapter on perspective---a subject all too often overlooked by both traditional and digital artists.

The book also contains a DVD with video demonstrations of many of the techniques discussed in the book. Just as with the text, these are remarkable for their clarity and exposition.

In short, Mattingly's book is more than a bargain at its price!

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Mattingly sets a high-bar for How-To books 18. April 2011

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David Mattingly has set a high bar for how-to books: thoughtful desisgn;clear, concise, entertaining prose,; well-considered illustrations, and useful tutorials to help artists begin to master this complicated craft. A very useful explanatory DVD is part of the package, too. Mattingly marries the knowledge of Rennaissance perspective learned at his alma mater, Art Center and old school matte painting (he started out at Disney painting mattes on glass) with the latest digital wizardry. An understanding of Photoshop and other visual software is essential, so this is not so much a book for beginners, but for relatively accomplished digital artists looking to expand their skill-set. Mattingly teaches at SVA and Pratt: this book is born from the experience of an accomplished illustrator and teacher.

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