I made an old school MATTE PAINTING

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100 Years ago they didn't have computers so they had to use glass! Watch as I try to make my own Matte Painting and learn the secrets of the Master Matte Painters of yesteryear. Instead of using After Effects I decided to use paint and paint brushes. The Mandalorian uses advanced techniques but just like 100 years ago the effect is captured in camera!
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@EpicLightMedia 4 года назад

"Illusions dad, you don't have time for my illusions!"

@thejameslealartco.7625 3 года назад

😂

@tallguytrav 4 года назад

Now I expect to start seeing a lot more old school matte paintings in youtube short films because of this video.

@CoconutPete 3 года назад

I made a digital matte video effect thingy a few weeks ago but this is much cooler

@jmalmsten Год назад

One book I highly recommend is The Invisible Image, that takes readers from the earliest days of glass paintings through that guy who essentially patented double exposure, hindering others from doing matte shots where you painted the painting long after the human elements were filmed and exposed the frame again (the "matte" in matte paintings coming from the matte black area they would paint on glass to keep that bit on the negative from being exposed), all the way up to modern day set extensions done digitally.

@charming_and_granite 4 года назад

I feel like this is a special channel. It's more about film techniques juxtaposed with a heartfelt and comedic commentary as well as the application and experimentation of the said technique. It's not about views or subs, it's about the process and exploration of filmmaking. Easily becoming one of my favorite channels! Keep up the amazing work!

@AthanCondax 4 года назад

This was really cool. I've always known about matte paintings, but the fact that you went as far to recreate one is really awesome.

@stillbuyvhs 3 года назад

I think they eventually started just painting in a black matte on set. Later, someone would paint the scenery, then someone else would print the painted image over blacked out area.

@KorenYoung 4 года назад

So much work goes into one shot. What a pane!

@soleaux 11 месяцев назад

hahaha

@leoagudelo 4 года назад

this guy is a genius

@MichaelSavidgeStoryteller 4 года назад

Yay, bringing back in-camera matte paintings! I've loved reading about it older special effects manuals and always wanted to try it, but never had the courage to. Although this would be fun to try...maybe I should give it a chance!!

@soleaux 11 месяцев назад

amazing thank you for showing this technique

@mkelly01 4 года назад

This was awesome, thanks for sharing!

@TheJMShow 4 года назад

I have been binge-watching all of your videos! Some of the best tutorials I have seen in a long time! Channel is way underrated! You guys need a couple million more subscribers to justify the quality content you all are putting out! Great job! And thank you for the awesome history/tutorial/ storytime video!

@EpicLightMedia 4 года назад

Thanks so much!! It’s fun making videos. We are so happy you are enjoying them. We are learning a lot about RU-vid and how to teach.

@TheJMShow 4 года назад

@@EpicLightMedia You guys rock!!

@DavidLGood 4 года назад

Pro Tip: When creating thumbnails for RU-vid videos -- AVOID red outlines, as a red bar across the bottom of a thumbnail is usually an indicator that a user has already watched a video. Just FYI. Hope you find that useful.

@smokermarine 4 года назад

i really enjoy listening to your calming voice!

@nathanksimpson 3 года назад

Suddenly I realized that Bob Ross might have had a second career as a matte painter.

@glennledrew8347 2 месяца назад

Doing is the best way to learn. Good doing!

@IngoWoelke 4 года назад

This seems like fun - I will try this.

@guillaumecottin7251 3 года назад

I’ve done front miniatures for a short film. It was a miniature of a Baba Yaga hut in the forest. Super realistic as the lighting is exactly the same on the foreground and background. But very tricky to get the position right. At least, the background being a forest, there wasn’t a need to perfectly match perspective lines or a precise scale. Otherwise it would have been a nightmare!

@simonbolzdotcom 4 года назад

Thomas, I take my hat off. Amazing stuff. Bravo.

@crweewrc1388 9 месяцев назад

I actually like your work. It's like you've been transported into a Van Gogh painting or something like that.

@dennisclark8766 4 года назад

What a great job.

@melih.b1o 4 года назад

20 minutes into this channel and it's already becoming my favorite!

@OrangeShots 4 года назад

I think you paint very well too,, awesome buddy.

@mattmiller1585 4 года назад

Thats a dope effect!!

@katykatarsis 4 года назад

This was so cool!

@user-pq9mk8mb7j 4 года назад

Okay, now you make me feel obliged to watch the Mandalorian.

@gillesmatheronpro 4 года назад

Spain, South of France, Tuscany... this is what your painting seems like. Bravo... great work, lots of things explained. This may help teaching a tad more about how hard these jobs are when it comes to really mastering your craft. This is why I always explain technicians actually are "artists with machines"... Matte painting still is commonly used in animation. Eastern Europe has made itself famous for being THE matte painting kingdom. A friend of mine is currently creating her new animated long film. All "environnement" elements are created half/half in Toulouse (France) and Prague (Czech republic), as these are the most important countries for animated films. Minions were born in France, just as Sonic the hedgehog and so many more. Down there, matte painting still is an everyday tool.

@Thesupermanning 4 года назад

The night shot was my favorite.

@TK42138 4 года назад

One of my favourite use of matte paintings was in the film 'Hindenburg'. Albert Whitlock was a master of the art

@walkingmanvideo9455 9 месяцев назад

LOL, When I seen your thumbnail i thought to myself, damn that house looks real!!!!!

@orfanidis071 4 года назад

Your approach is so beautiful. It's really important to try and understand the basics of something before you start relying in all the new tools that do the work for you. It helps you gain better understanding of the craft and can also lead to creative breakthroughs.

@EpicLightMedia 4 года назад

Yes! Any excuse to paint happy trees is a good excuse. Haha

@TK42138 4 года назад

One of the last Hollywood films to use a glass matte painting was 'Titanic' in 1997. Sometimes the 'less is more' approach looks aesthetically better than some digital matte paintings that have pin sharp detail which can end up triggering the 'uncanny valley.' Have a look at the glass paintings used for the 'Return of The Jedi' Death Star hangar scenes with the stormtroopers on parade.

@Edward2Fan47 Год назад

You deserve using techniques like that for films.

@TK42138 4 года назад

Can you make a video on the 'Shufftan Process' where a mirror (at 45 degrees to lens axis) was used with some of the reflected surface removed so a camera could film live action through the glass against a reflection of a miniature that was placed to the side off camera.

@thirun779 4 года назад

Imagine the position of the sun changes... It makes me anxious.

@jim.t9481 4 года назад

just did a essay on 1920s cinima i think its amazing and want to try this myself so glad youve done this

@CoconutPete 3 года назад

woww that is insanely great! this could be very useful to just about any youtuber out there... I may have to give this a try... sort of like Hollywood matte paintings 👍

@arantesFilms 4 года назад

Awesome

@YouGleIt Год назад

Great example. Although, by Gone With The Wind, they were already using the latent matte technique, so they would just darken the area that later they would superimpose over the live shot. (Those paintings were way too elaborate) That carried for decades!

@CallousCoder Год назад

I’m glad I became a digital matte painter or as I call it image wrangler and compositor. I could never do that with paint. Give me photoshop, Blender and Nuke and I can do a nice 2.5D but with paint.. no! And as a Dutch guy I can appreciate the Dutch subtitled 🤪

@sasha103 4 года назад

I like this guy.

@quengaceiro 4 года назад

great content

@levihint 4 года назад

I was wanting to do this. You beat me to it you cheeky devil.

@gameboy398 4 года назад

great

@felipevece 4 года назад

Not all matt painting were done in place, in other cases they put balck board in a frame to block the places in the scene that shold see in the scen, the black board will no be expose and then the artis in a studio will do the matte paint proyecting into a glass

@EpicLightMedia 4 года назад

Yes the Latent Imaging Technique! More advanced than this old method. In fact, that is the way the matte art in Gone With The Wind was accomplished

@roccogioffre4788 4 года назад

@@EpicLightMedia Hey there ! This was nicely done and a pretty good explanation of the technique. I have been a matte painting artist for 43 years professionally. The first 20 years as a traditional matte painter and then as a digital matte artist since 1997. Thanks for this posting !

@neilwallacewells4984 4 года назад

great...¡¡¡¡ , could you explain how the lightning effects do in the movie big trouble in little china?.

@markschippel7974 4 года назад

I love the "old" special effects. Think Zena, Warrior Princess. I believe it was Star Trek (they obviously weren't the only ones) that would take a photo on slide film. The backlit color slide would then be placed in a model and and filmed. The slide would be still but for a quick shot you could have the crew looking out a window of your star ship. The effect would be the opposite of a matte painting. Your characters are still and the background is moving.

@Uhfgood 4 года назад

Not just 100 years ago, but until about the mid-late 90's. Upvote for Three Amigos reference. Product wasn't worse, and nowadays isn't necessarily better. True there were some better images than some others (I like spotting the matte scenes in old movies, but most of the time they did them well enough you couldn't tell.) Newer "matte paintings" have that "computerized" look for lack of a better term. They don't have the physical medium of paint, and they use effects and things that look like it was heavily processed. For instance in San Andreas you could tell there was a lot of cgi and digital matte because of the certain look it gives off.

@arianpoetrasamudra4022 4 года назад

Subscribed!

@genrlgadget 3 года назад

Yes... On the subject of the AD pilot cut-away (or any other cutaway or reference to copyrighted material)... Could you do a show on that? What is a RU-vid creator allowed to do or not do? Thanks for the great video. You're quite the painter!

@yaddamop 3 года назад

I'm sure you're familiar with the techniques of the past master, Albert Whitlock. Now, he said his paintings were impressionistic, not much detail, but enough to get the illusion across. But, what gets me is he would do it on the actual negative! No mistakes allowed. He nailed it every time!

@scottstevensonfilms 4 года назад

happy little trees

@NoNamesLeftFuk 4 года назад

use a phone or a mavic drone to get everything in focus easier.

@ShinnKawasaki 4 года назад

Bob Ross would have been the best person for this job

@mutcholokoW 3 года назад

That's pretty damn cool :) Now I don't wanna use After Effects anymore hahahah

@EpicLightMedia 3 года назад

Right!?!? Working in the computer is kinda lame compared to this

@mutcholokoW 3 года назад

@@EpicLightMedia Yes! Feels much more artistic and real in a way, even if it's not as realistic-looking as CGI and etc.

@WebsiteOwner-dw2rj Год назад

Nothing says Arizona like a big, massive AC unit on the roof.

@CANNOTDIEFILMS 3 года назад

WOAH OKAY! How does being a master painter fit into your alleged backstory of being a pool guy??

@billgreen4592 4 года назад

Have you seen Potato Jet's matte paintings? Dude.

@sixsoxsex1 4 года назад

The best way was: 1 shot the film 2 print a paper blow of a film frame and put a glass on it and paint 3 shot again to the film projected to a 45 degree translucent glass putted in front of the glass painted In Star Wars they made as I explained

@crist67mustang Год назад

Mexico, South America? Hahahahaha. I'm writing from 🇨🇱 Santiago Chile SouthAmerica. I was reaching for this effect, I didn't know how they call it, in fact I noticed this effect on North by Northwest in seversl scenes, such us the house in the hills top, the sculptures, the UNO buildind entrance, the building square from aereal view. Matte Painting effect.

@ShopDogProductions13 Год назад

What type of paint did you use? I’m allergic to walnuts so I can’t use oil paint. Thanks

@EpicLightMedia Год назад

Acrylic

@ShopDogProductions13 Год назад

@@EpicLightMedia awesome thanks!

@meirchaimo6960 4 года назад

Aren't the mountains in the distance supposed to be at least a little blurry?

@EpicLightMedia 4 года назад

Good point

@meirchaimo6960 4 года назад

@@EpicLightMedia that's probably why it looked old

@leiphf 4 года назад

@markbarrera6807 3 года назад

100 years?

@clurkroberts2650 4 года назад

Not 100years Matte painting were still done thru the 80s

@EpicLightMedia 4 года назад

Well I guess I didn’t explain that the latent image process was used through the 80s but the glass in front of the lens on location is an older method

@clurkroberts2650 4 года назад

Epic Light Media Yes, glass was still used by elinshaw and Whitlock through the 60s, but only sporadically. But on another note, I have a lot of respect for you attempting this, pretty fascinating video. I really enjoy your site’s perspective on video/film production