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Huston did oil-on-canvas matte paintings for the original "Star Wars"; he did digital matte paintings for the "Special Edition".
These days it would all be digital with no puppet; no painting with holes drilled in it so that twinkling lights could be simulated and no "live" action, said Mr. Evans, who is now a digital matte artist.
Numerous digital matte paintings were used to modify the winter Bulgarian terrain in different scenes to represent its intended location.
Creator of "digital matte painting", this hyper-realist can inlay several photographs in one to obtain homogeneous images, striking of realism.
Other techniques used in the film included digital matte paintings for backgrounds and the NURBS mathematical model for certain animations, including the sequence in which Leeloo's body is reconstructed.
The French graphic designer and photographer uses a method he calls "digital matte painting," layering several photos on top of each other to create an incandescent composition that seems eerily familiar yet ultimately impossible.
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In early-1993 Lucas told Universal that advances in computer-generated imagery from Industrial Light & Magic (owned by Lucasfilm), particularly in digital mattes, would help bring Radioland Murders in for a relatively low budget of about $10 million, which eventually rose to $15 million.
The visual-effects company Look Effects worked on 87 shots for The Fountain that included major set extensions, digital mattes, image enhancement, face replacement and blemish removal, as well as animating key elements to the film's story.
Larger areas, notably the exterior of the building and the transmission tower on the roof, were created or augmented with digital mattes added by visual effects supervisor Scott Squires (The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace) at Industrial Light & Magic.
Now that digital technology has made matte painting obsolete, this eye-opening book (with CD-ROM included), by a film historian and a matte-painting alumnus of George Lucas's studio, has the opposite effect; it increases our wonder at this heretofore "invisible art".
Digital chromogenic print on Kodak Endura Matte paper, Image/sheet: 20 x 30 in.
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