Sentence examples for matte painter from inspiring English sources
I always loved mid 1980s PC design, especially the Frog-esque HP below with its bold horizontal lines and futuristic airbrushing that is supposed to signal "high tech" but really screams "underemployed matte painter fired from the set of Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone".
We spoke to the matte painter about his dynamic with Anderson's team and how a project like this affects his personal work, as well as more details about his creative process.
The iconic station appears in three scenes in Val Guest's 1961 sci-fi/ black comedy "The Day the Earth Caught Fire", most notably in a rear screen projected tableaux where a dense fog (created by effects expert/ matte painter Les Bowie) engulfs the Thames.
As a matte painter for feature films you can't help always looking for perfection and pure photo realism in every painting, because they expect you to deliver very high quality products; so it's hard to detach from that mentality, even when I'm alone in my office, working on my personal works.
These days, matte painters do the job digitally, and background scenes (like the glaciers and icecaps in this film) could fool George Lucas.
Some of the most memorable settings in Hollywood film -- Tara, Oz, Xanadu -- were the sleight-of-hand creation of matte painters, who laid down a scene with oil paints on a sheet of glass, leaving an area blank (the matte) where the live action was slotted in.
Their team of specialists is a dizzying roster of food stylists, directors, cinematographers, model-makers, mechanical engineers, pyrotechnicians, matte painters, fluids specialists, 3D-animators and compositing professionals.
