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Some Indiana Jones Matte-Painting
Feb 12th
Here are some traditional matte-painting from Indiana Jones I found on the net. There are some really pieces of work ! I really like the Pangrazio’s matte showing the house in the snow, it’s really nice, and of course the very famous ending shot of the first film with the hangar.
Buck Rodgers mattes by Syd Dutton
Feb 10th
As you will know soon, Syd Dutton is one of my favourite matte painter. His work as traditional matte painter is really impressive.
Here are few matte painting he did for “Buck Rodgers in 25th Century”
Have a look the Syd’s Filmography
Albert Whitlock – Master of illusion
Feb 7th
Here is a really nice video of Albert Whitlock Matte-Painting showing some of his work. I’m a huge fan of traditional Matte Painting. It’s always really impressive to see people creating photo realistic environment on a glass.
David Stipes – Visual Effects Supervisor
Feb 6th
David Stipes is a two time Emmy® Award winner with over 30 years of experience in the film industry in various aspects of visual effects and animation.
David worked as a Visual Effects Supervisor on four Star Trek
series: “The Next Generation,” “Voyager,” “Deep Space Nine,” and
“Enterprise”. David championed the use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) for Star Trek, which completely changed how the visual effects are created for the shows.
Prior to Star Trek, David created visual effects for a number of science fiction television series including “Buck Rogers,” “Battlestar Galactica,”The Flash,” “V” and “Intruders.”
David also operated his own studio for more than 12 years producing visual effects for such feature films as “Circuitry Man,” “Creepshow,” “Lawnmower Man,” and “Real Genius.” David has had over twenty industry related articles published and is currently an instructor at The Art Institute of Phoenix.
He accepted to share with us some of his photos and tell us more about it.
Buck Rogers in 25th Century” TV show. (1979) I am standing in front of a multi-plane matte painting set-up. Painting is by Dan Curry who later went on to become a Visual Effects Supervisor and Producer on “Star Trek.” This kind of set up allowed layers of glass to slide and provide drifting cloud effects.
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.
