Matte Painting: Environments for Film

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Free Online Course: Matte Painting: Environments for Film provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3-4 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Matte Painting: Environments for Film is taught by Danny Janevski.

Overview
  • Learn current industry techniques for creating digital matte painting for features films, from DreamWorks artist Danny Janevski.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • What to know
    • Exercise files
    1. Layout
    • Concept frames or inspiration
    • Layout geometry in Clarisse
    • Layout importance and set breakup
    2. Asset Creation
    • Import and separate geometry in ZBrush
    • Renaming geometry
    • Creating a top-down render
    3. World Building and Terrain Generation
    • Import into World Machine
    • Creating nodes in World Machine
    • Adjusting height and resolution
    • Using erosion in World Machine
    • Adding color to erosion
    • Mesh and texture output
    • Advanced macros
    • Rendering through tiled output
    • Converting files to use with Clarisse
    4. Look Development
    • Import OBJs into Clarisse
    • Setting up Lookdev
    • Shader creation using textures and masks
    • Creating a layered shader
    • Creating a rock and sand shader
    5. Final Layout
    • Creating the final layout
    6. Project Setup
    • Projection setup
    • Creating render layers
    • Resolution
    7. Matte Painting
    • Key art: Paint setup
    • Key art: Creating a haze
    • Key art: Sky setup
    • Key art: Painting the sky
    • Key art: Painting the mountain
    • Key art: Final touches
    • Exporting layers
    8. Projection
    • Importing layers into Nuke
    • Shuffle node and scene setup
    • Projection
    • Compositing
    • Rendering
    • Final render
    Conclusion
    • Next steps