Didier Konings: The Abandoned City matte painting tutorial

Didier Konings is the talented Lead Digital Matte Painter at Aaron Sims Company. In this tutorial Didier walks you through his process for creating a matte painting from the concept and reference stage right through to creating a final piece that is ready to hand over to a compositor.

[@SebAnt]

One of THE best things I have seen on TH-cam this year! The attention to detail is mind blowing! THANK YOU!!

[@erlson]

I'm saving this video in my matte painting playlist for further studying.

[@UnendingMusic]

This truly is an incredible tutorial, keep up the great work Didier!

[@rdoetjes]

I love these sort of matte paintings. I worked on this indie film Dreaming of a White Doomsday so I was ready to do a full on apocalyptic town (yeah it's really a cliche but... hey?!" but all I had to do was to 2D paint a abandoned grey dirt covered plain and some "White Cliffs of Dover" like structures for the foreground.
Another shot I just had to put in a wooden collapsed building -- which was fun because the location manager asked during the screening: "Where's this shot?" The director said: "Are you kidding me, that's the lumberyard where we snuck in on Sundays!"
-"I can't recall that house there?!"
"Seriously dude? That's mattepainted and comped in by Ray!"
And I did some snowy set extensions.
I like doing 3D as well but it takes SOOOOO much more time than just doing a 2.5D projection.

[@ahmedgeemmii9382]

I enjoyed a lot while I was watching this work
Shout out from Egypt

[@NitinGurbani]

Thankyou so much for explaining the process and the thought process as well 😍

[@IceyDivine]

I love watching your work!

[@Ntorial]

Great Job Mr. Didier. I love your work. Thanks for the video

[@JacekIrzykowski]

nice work! its always fun to do matte painting of a post apocalyptic city!

[@ImagineThatPuppets]

Really great work! 🎉

[@RisKobinson]

Such a helpful video and well explained, thank you so much for this!

[@GreatWaterCircus]

Didier thanks for that, really cool tut. And very cool work.

[@felina0808]

Nice tutorial. explained well. Thank you!

[@cuteyboo8880]

reminds me of the last of us.

[@twilight_mourner1865]

I was thinking of the exact same thing

[@oscaralexanderchala]

Amazing!!

[@fluffy_potato6070]

Amazing, thank you so much!

[@slaughterhousecry]

Thank you! Really useful

[@bnzomo6383]

Thank youuuuu!

[@misakiart530]

Wow awesome

[@dric507]

exellent thx!

[@imrenagy8122]

very cool

[@ahmedgeemmii9382]

I was wondering to know how to search for the stocks and find what I imagine

[@coelho2825]

Awsome!!

[@ArtStationHQ]

Glad you liked it.

[@iCom3nt]

well done

[@KamilHaddadM]

Great video. Highly appreciated. For future reference, the background music sometimes makes it hard to hear the commentary.

[@traktorfaktor]

Carbon based lifeforms ❤️

[@lucasmetivier7826]

I am always worried about the copyrights when i do that type of work. How do i stay in the legal zone when i mix images?

[@jackpeterson1909]

Use your own images.

[@manchesterunitedno7]

Take your own photos, find free pictures (non copyright) on the websites, or pay small amount of fee on sites like gettyimage.

[@georgemihalache6081]

How did you create that sunrise? What did you use to create that effect?

[@adrianherzberger41]

I still dont kknwo how u use the same alpha channel on the taxi^^............can somebody help out?

[@snyyx]

Hey do you take the photos yourself ? Cause I'm having a real hard time finding some city images on the internet.. And fitting everything to the perspective.

[@martijn.martens]

Where would i be able to buy/download PNG's of foliage like the ones used in this video?

[@mrigankshekharmahato9352]

Can you provide us the link of those resources you've used.... Thank you in advance 🙂

[@lacrimosa770]

congratulation ! But, could you give me your ressources pliz ? i can't find them in internet

[@gianniironi6602]

beautiful tutorial the background of the city where you got it?

[@JoaoPedro-kd4zw]

type "west 34st panorama" on google i will find it :P

[@aybeedev]

classic

[@martamariatebarruiz73]

Hi! Here just wondering where did you get those ripped clothes! Trying to find out something similar but no success so far!

[@dp2791]

Great tutorial, don't need the background music.

[@dougieladd]

What is the music? It's very calming.

[@raw_pc]

Hammock

[@lookup90]

I AM LEGEND

[@biswajittripathy2786]

How many layers you had when you built this matte painting ?

[@JhonyAlex]

Gemial, aunque pierde tiempo en darle detalles a cosas que al final ni se notan, como por ejemplo el anuncio del taxy, para que cambiarlo si al final quedo igual, no se nota lo que era!

[@redouns]

23:01 on fait comment ....? moi ca fonctionne pas le calque pour le transformer comme je voudrais

[@levisuel2381]

Joues avec le masque de fusion et un niveau et ça devrait faire le taff

[@jhonrvlogger]

how can find the file ? plants car and etc

[@PP-ed9cf]

Not a matte painting, strictly speaking, is it? You couldn't have this as a background in a movie and it be believable as the actual background - which is what matte paintings are used for. Yours is a concept painting.