How to create DIGITAL MATTE PAINTINGS in your films | Photoshop & After Effects tutorial
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This video has been updated and re-uploaded to show a much better process for the Photoshop section!
We've been having fun with 'matte painting' effects in the style of old Hollywood films. Here's my tutorial to get you started if you want to try them in your own films!
There's one particular visual effect that you've probably seen in hundreds of classic films, but it's so cleverly done that you probably never even realized it was there. They've created some of your favorite worlds and they're almost as old as cinema itself. Matte paintings were traditionally used by Hollywood to allow filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that could not be present at the filming location by expertly blending live action footage with still images, filmmakers became masters of creating worlds that would be impossible or just too expensive to film for real. Matte paintings have been used since the silent era (as seen in "Modern Times" with Charlie Chaplin). Traditionally, matte paintings were made by artists using paints or pastels on large sheets of glass for integrating with the live-action footage. In the scenes the painting part is static and movements are integrated on it. Some of the most famous and well-known matte paintings can be seen in the classic Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, created by Industrial Light & Magic.
Today we can recreate something in much less time and money using widely-available digital tools such as Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. For a static shot, my method basically involves saving a freeze frame of your video and then opening this in Photoshop. Here you can add your extra elements from other images and stock photos, and then re-export as a PSD for PNG file to retain the transparent areas. Then you can open this with your edit program and drop it in over the top of your footage, masking out any further areas where you need to see movement behind.
For a moving shot such as a pan or a tilt, you can do a similar method but also analyse the clip in After Effects using the 3D camera tracker, and then creating a null object that sticks to the tracking markers. Then you can parent the PSD file to the null and tidy up the edges. See the finished effects from this tutorial here: • 5 MATTE PAINTING effec...
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You explained what my professor took 3 weeks to teach me, in 10 minutes.
Also got to charge $$$$ because our educational models are archaic
Ian Hubert is the master of this technique!
@@DManimations1 a natural evolution!
7:36 thankk uuu!!! You explained it in minutes while my professor explained it for hours
In case this is of any interest, when I paste in an image over another (esp. over a landscape) I find it helps to make the superimposed matter to be just a little transparent to allow the background color, texture, and atmosphere to blend into the additional image. It kind if buries the superimposed element into the environment a bit. Obviously you can't do this much, but it has come in handy for me.
Cheers.
Excellent video.
I love your videos. I don't know much about video editing but the way you do it makes me feel anyone can do it!
I feel just the same way
@@AriestheLegendRVA haha well happy editing and God bless my friend :)
@@SteveRamsdenTH-cam Bob Ross reference? =)
One more tip.
Always shoot a grey plate. Overlay that over your mattepainting (or any digital asset). Then the noise pattern of your camera is also visible on the matte painting. If you don’t it becomes very “sterile”. I worked on this indie movie and they needed set extensions. I did the mattepaintings in 2D because there was no 3D budget for me. And I assumed that graduate film school movie makers, knew the grey screen trick. I always shoot a grey screen and black screen in case I need to combat fixed pattern noise.
But the didn’t! So I asked them to do that. I get a half frame filled, poorly lid (not on 50 or 75 IFE depending on your sensor) and a big white cross hair marker. As I was already over my time. I just cloned the hell out of it and brought it up in exposure in Nuke. And instantly the director was like: “damn suddenly that CG look is gone. It sits in the shot!” You can fake it with grain etc that is more visible than the noise but of course then your hole Film need that grain - usually not what you want.
But then if there is a scale difference, won't the noise also look bigger/smaller compared to the original plate?
@@MaheshRavi No the noise is the same scale, you don't scale the grey plate. You just overlay it over the mattepainting.
And that scale is always the same from the same camera, no matter how close or far details are.
Just to be clear, this is a last stage compositing step.
@@CallousCoder Makes sense! Thank you ❤️🤗
@@MaheshRavi Pleasure!
My man, I need help. Im a 3D generalist working on my first movie and I'd like to ask you some questions if you dont mind
Such a great tutorial! The possibilities are endless, I know what I'll be doing tonight!
I always wait for your videos... Keep the good work going on 😊
Thank you! It's really interesting! You do it so professional! I will try to repeat some steps and learn more about matte painting!
I really liked the real footage and bts of the glass paintings from the early days. thank you!
the moving matte is so cool
Dude your amazing this is just what I was wanting to learn how to do!
Man I really appreciate the time and effort you put into your channel
Many thanks!
gonna try this right now
love ur teachings have been following all ur works
Great tut man! ❤ So much Appreciated
This is an incredible video! Super concise, very detailed, and delivered with a killer voice. You've earned my sub! 😀
Aw shucks! 😀 thank you
this technique! is amazing !
This is brilliant! Thank you!
Nice update. Thank you Steve.
😮😮all this is black magic! 😉 wunderbar!
and thanks for this "non destructive" photoshop infos which I think I'm finally starting to understand!!!!
Very nice tutorial, you answered my questions. You have a new sub! Thank you!!
Wow this is really helpful I will try to do it thank you for your hard work
This makes the learning less scary! Very much appreciate the tutorial. Any advice on how to make starship battles?
Thanks, check out my Star Wars miniatures video as a starting point, and we'll be trying more with miniatures soon :) th-cam.com/video/EY_wLkWXDcU/w-d-xo.html
Ayy i love your videos!
thanks for an awsome tutorial
This is great!
Wow...thank you so much...
Trust me you will gain huge audience in future ! keep it on !
I love you man 😍😍😍
Bro, if there is someone best in teaching of visuals, then you will be on top in the entire youtube, Much Love Brother
Thank you, thank you very much🙏
This was fun
Amazing.
Big loveee
This was great
Nice work! A tutorial about handheld camera movement with a greenscreen could be cool.
Thanks so much, I'm new subs now
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Glad to hear!
👍 great video
Thank you
Nice!
Thank you !!
❤🙏
Nice one 👌
Thank You So Much
Glad it was helpful!
Great!
awesome thanks
Brilliant! It was easy to follow you.
Glad to hear!
Stevo you’re the best ... can’t wait for the course. Would you consider giving us some of your footage to practice along with these tutorials, eg: I really wanna try the “jumping out the window shot” thanks
We will certainly include some downloadable elements on the course once we get it up and running. Give it a few months and stay tuned :)
You are awesome
I watched this after having a nap and my mind is blown😬😂
so much better and authentic than cgi backgrounds
Can you make a video on using animation over video? Thank you! I love your channel!
Nice
great video
Thankyou
Yours Editing is awesome. I like your videos.I searched a lot and found this channel I did not know the name of this channel. Have a nice day.
Is this also possible in motion and fcpx? Because the adobe eco system is to expansive for me.... THX for sharing all your experience! Happy to found your channel!
Hey Steve! Can you do a tutorial on a giant effect?
nice
Hi Steve, starting with saying to you: you're awesome like always !
One question thought: did you ever used Fusion3D for compositing instead of AfterEffects ? I'm curious for a concluded response to this question: do you think you can create anything you would create in AfterEffects with Fusion3D ? I would want to learn these compositing techniques of yours in Fusion3D as it has some free versions, and I'm curious if the effort affords for what you are teaching us here.
Thanks for all ! Extremely nice, smooth learning material. You're great !
Простите, но мне лень переводить на английский свой комментарий. Потрясающее видео, узнал очень много полезного (с русскими субтитрами было бы понятнее). У этого видео должно быть намного больше просмотров и комментариев.
SImply wonderful and super useful, thanks! I just wish you did the whole process of a still shot on After Effects since that's the program I am forced to work with at the moment xD But oh boy was this video helpful!
Thanks! You can certainly do it all in After Effects - just use masks to draw around the parts of the photos you want to use and feather the edges :)
first commenter this is amazing
Almost
Wow Mr Steve I like your edits
Please what app did you use to edit this video
it is castle stalker,on loch laich,near glencoe
Really nice tutorial!! Next time try to match brightness contrast and saturation. Only the color grading makes it kinda worse.
Can you try mirror dimension effect
thank you very much for the great tutorial. I don't know if you noticed but the lighting of the mountains was contrary to the light of your shot... it was solved by inverting the image, surely you noticed it later, greetings
cool
I have an Edelkrone camera slider, the big one. I got it partly to make moving miniature shots that I can composite together into live footage like Blade Runner or something. It isn't totally smooth enough to combine multiple shots, and Davinci's stabilization is a little too basic. I see you work with Adobe, do you know of a solution that would work for me? If you can make a video like this using similar gear that would be very helpful, and if it will only work in After Effects I just might have to make the switch.
I know you in Tiktok but TH-cam no frist!
epic
Very nice work. Only thing I didn`t get you is at 9:47.What did you mask? The trees of the mountain base?
The area where the trees of the real footage meet the mountain base
How to turn the camera sideways to see the layers are 3d?
Very useful but im struggling right now to make a good mate painting scene shooted by drone. So there's alot of parallax Cuz its moving, not an static camera like all the samples given 😢
I have seen this b4...is it a re-upload??
sa here, dude =)))
How about miniatures combined with live action actors?
First comment ❤️
Now I feel more smarter after watching this video
Why were some traditionally done on glass and other opaque board? Did the paintings ever need to be back lit? Also if.projecting an image into a hole left in the matte, would the hole require a projection type screen within the hole in order to focus the image?
I would love for you to do an example in the old school way by say creating a digital matte , and then getting it printed in a large format. Then doing everything else the old way to see exactly how it worked.
Can you do this in Final Cut Pro?
Definitely the easy version (static camera), but probably not the harder version (moving camera)
Hey! I live all of your works. BUT can you make a plane crash?
I see a video
I click
THis ones fucking wonderful!
Can I do this type of editing in MacBook Air or Pro??
You could get something called Hitfilm Express for free, or you could pay for the adobe creative cloud and have photoshop, premiere, after effects, ect (He uses the adobe creative cloud)
@@georgefilmanimation Or Davinci Resolve(For free)
@@NostalgiNorden That's a good one too!
No u cant with intel mac air, its a week laptop u need a powerfull pc for this kind of editing.
Yes you can, I’m currently using a MacBook Pro 2020 for all my edits, just get the softwares required
It's hard to do in windows 7
can you guys do a tutorial on how to add yourself into ANIMATED films?
(like, random example, the boarding scene from the Polar Express?) :) thx!
Wait this was done before right?
@@citrin_ ohh sure
Please stave how do I make duplicated zombies...like an army !
It’s better than cgi to be honest
if you want to walk in front of your matte painting, look up rotoscoping
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please recreate bollywood movies effects named robot 2.o
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Can i get ❤️ in 30 seconds
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What happened about the course
We've started work on it, stay tuned for updates in the coming months :)
Great tutorial as always, but that castle is way too big for that mountain.
Was too small on yours tho
@@blopp6240 Pardon?
@@alaskavfxfilmer your composition. Like to criticize others can do same with yours
@@blopp6240 Ah I see, but the proper place to criticize my stuff would by in my videos comments, anyways, there is a lot more wrong with mine then the scale, my "castle" is actually a city, so of course it is very out of place in a mountain pass where I put it, Steve's on the other hand is a small castle being scaledone to the size of a small city.