Matte painting: Raphael Lacoste

If I get time this year, this is something I wish to dabble in a little more --- matte painting. I have a few friends that currently do this.

One of my favourite matte painters is Raphael Lacoste.

Matte painters are those artists who are used for painting up backgrounds (or mattes) for film production.
Surprisingly you can find him on deviant art here.[url=raphael-lacoste.deviantart.com/][/url]

This one is called Dawn on the Ancient Hall.

Impressive stuff! At first I thought this was all about painting on giant sized canvases, but since looking into it a bit more >here< I have a better idea. I amazed by the way people use digital techniques to piece things together - my style is in the dark ages!

My favourite one of those (from the tutorial) is Making my Lost world. Thanks for the link.
ONe of the guys I know who does matte painting, sources various images (e.g. stock photos), puts them together as a unit and then plays around with that in Photoshop giving it that fantasy or surrealistic look.