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More Matte Painting from Star Wars
Feb 28th
I wanted to stay a bit longer around Star Wars and keep sharing with you this incredible painting.
Look how the work is beautifull on these traditionnal matte painting. It’s really impressive. So many details, but you feel the brush. If you just look at your screen from a small distance, you won’t feel the painting anymore and will start to look at something more realistic.
We have a lot to learn from this technique.
Original Matte Painting from Star Wars
Feb 26th
Here are a bunch of incredible Hi Rez Matte Painting from Star Wars – Return of the Jedi. You can look at a close up of this really nice piece of work. That’s crazy to see how you can stay away from the details of a photo in the painting, but still have a very realistic effect at the end when you watch the movie. That’s so cool 
Matte Painting – Star Wars
Jan 15th
Voici un très joli matte painting, issu du film Star Wars.
Les zones noires sont les zones gardées vierges dans lesquelles des acteurs filmés étaient incrustés.
Horizon’s look a ILM and VFX – Part 1 (Optical Printing)
Mar 15th
Hi there,
Here is a TV show from 1985 about effects for Star Wars movies. It’s really interesting. This is the first part, talking about Printing Effects.
Some Star Wars Matte Painting
Mar 8th
I’m sure you wonder why I still didn’t have talk about Star Wars.
It’s because there is so many resources to share that I didn’t really know how to start it.
Finally I just decided it was time to make a post about SW. Here we go ! Let’s watch some matte painting !
Hope you’ll enjoy.
How the Walkers walk
Feb 18th
One of the most memorable scene in Empire Strikes Back is the Battle of Hoth with the terribles Walkers.
This a real vintage video of the Making of this scene.
Enjoy !
ILM Matte Painting
Feb 6th
Let’s start this blog by an incredible video of Caroleen Green and Mike Pangrazio when they were working at ILM as traditional matte painter. You can see some of their work on Indiana Jones or Star Wars.
In this video, you can easily understand how they mixed the live plate with the glass painting, how tricky it was.
