roccondil: foobar-the-great:tehgore:firey-rising-demon:rmcoleman:whomackenzied:the-time-go
roccondil: foobar-the-great: tehgore: firey-rising-demon: rmcoleman: whomackenzied: the-time-goddess-of-221b: as-warm-as-choco: Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe. There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2: exCUSE ME?!?!!??!??! TheYRE PAINTINGS?!??!!?! SHUT UP I thought they were miniatures!!!! It’s too beautiful. I could cry. I love this because I’ll be watching a movie and think “how did they do that? Is that a building they built for this movie? Was it there beforehand? Is it cardboard or CGI? Is that actually some place on Earth that they’re filming?” And the answer to all of these now is “nope, that’s a painting”. I can’t believe some of the most iconic, familiar shots were paintings! A few places were real, I recall there was a desert somewhere where the structures remain. What’s kinda sad is they don’t do this any more, there’s no art in films, they just throw cgi at it without much thought or planning–like everything else. Imagine the possibility of getting to own one of those paintings too. @spillybun Part of the reason why they don’t do matte paintings any more is that the digital cameras would absolutely pick up on the fact that it is a painting, being high definition, as opposed to the film camera image that is just slightly fuzzy/soft enough (as film does) to blend the real and the painted overlays together.Green screen is the new matte-same filming technique, different medium.It’s just that, production companies tend to overuse CGI to “save” on production costs (both time and money). -- source link