How to Create an Amazing Futuristic Matte Painting

This tutorial shows how to develop a futuristic fantasy theme out of a plain background using photo manipulation, photo montage techniques coupled with some painting inside Photoshop.

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In this tutorial I will show you the essentials o matte painting. Matte paintings are used to create virtual sets and digital back lots. They can be used to create entire sets, or to extend portions of an existing set.


Making of the Futuristic City
I present a brief description of the making of my matte painting "Futuristic City". As this is not a video tutorial, I could not express all the detailed painting and adjustment processes which I used. However I have covered as much as possible with the key steps involved in the making.


Absolute Beginners Guide to Matte Painting
Matte painting is a technique that filmmakers use to create backgrounds for scenes that can't or don't exist in real life.


Create a Post-Apocalyptic Matte Painting
In the movies, we often see images of ruined landscapes or apocalyptic cities. What many of us don't know however is that much of this imagery was produced not with complicated CG software but instead, using Photoshop. In todays tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a post apocalyptic matte painting of an old cathedral


Matte Painting: Maison hantée
This tutorial is actually a "making of" where I explain how I proceeded to achieve this matte painting. I use a Wacom Intuos A4 board, if you don't have any graphic board this is going to be hard but not impossible.


Matte Painting Mountains
This is a simple matte painting tutorial of adding mountains to video using Photoshop's ability to edit video. Using a combination of Layer Styles, and the Blend If function, you will learn to match the mountains look and color to your original video.


Matte painting - tornado wallpaper
In this tutorial we will make tornado wallpaper. We will try to make a quick matte painting. We will take a photo and retouch it adding tornados to the background.


Fantasy digital matte painting
Professional digital matte painter Sarel Theron shows you how to create an epic, Hollywood-style scene that recreates the fabled Lost City of the Incas in incredible detail with the liberal use of the Clone Stamp tool.


Matte Painting 101: Basic Extraction and Composition Techniques
Today's Photoshop CS5 tutorial, Matte Painting 101: Basic Extraction and Composition Techniques will teach you some quick ways to extract objects from their background and combine them with other images to produce the scene that you need.


How to Create a Period Matte Painting
Period matte paintings are those that need to recreate an environment from the past, whether it be Washington D.C. during the Civil War, or Rome in the Renaissance. Places change throughout time, due to new buildings, new styles of architecture, and of course new technology. Our goal is to go back in time to what it used to look like.


Mate painting wallpaper
In this tutorial we will make a fast mate painting wallpaper. Matte painting is actually based on photo with different hand painted elements. So here I have some photos found in the internet.


Using Lighting, Atmospherics and Digital Illustration Techniques for Matte Painting
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to take a concept, develop it using linear perspective, then add in value and color perspectives, and then apply photographic references to achieve a realistic matte painting. You'll then learn how to apply adjustments to achieve realistic scale, and understand the properties of light and atmospherics for realism. Lastly, you'll learn some great compositional techniques.


Painting a Spanish Girl
Digital painting is an beautiful , amazing, and most popular art. Every designer want to learn about its tips and techniques.


Planet X Matte Painting in Photoshop
So in this tutorial I will show you how to create that using some photos, 3D rendered models in 3DS Max and Photoshop.


Create a Photo Manipulation of an Angel Holding a Torch
This tutorial will show you a combination of Matte Painting and Surreal Photo-Manipulation techniques.


The Babel Tower Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial we will learn how to create one big construction from many architectural parts. In the steps below I will show you how to combine the traditional photo manipulation with matte painting resulting in a renaissance piece.


Create A Distressed Surreal Cityscape
In this tutorial I'm going to show you some techniques in matte painting to create a distressed surreal cityscape.


Fantastic Digital Painting Image in Photoshop and Corel Painter
How to create an amazing digital painting design using Photoshop and Corel Painter.


Create an Amazing Painting - Fancy Trees Paradise
I am using Adobe Photoshop CS3 for this tutorial, but I am sure most of this can be done on older versions as well. For this tutorial I used a tablet a Wacom Graphire4 45 USB (Blue). Join me as I take you for a quick demonstration of my painting process for "Fancy Trees Paradise". This tutorial is merely to act as a guide, and an explanation to my technique


The Babel Tower Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial we will learn how to create one big construction from many architectural parts. In the steps below I will show you how to combine the traditional photo manipulation with matte painting resulting in a renaissance piece. A PSD is included with this Photoshop tutorial.


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