A Matte Painting & VFX Reel - Vancouver Film School (VFS)

Created by Vancouver Film School student Jessica Wan through the VFS 3D Animation and Visual Effects program

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• VFS
• Vancouver
• Film
• School
• 3d
• animation
• cg
• mult
• graphic
• maya
• 3dsmax
• xsi
• texture
• model
• demo
• reel
• modeling
• texturing
• vfx

[freddo212]

It's a demo real, they're not ment to be a story but more of a way of advertising the student for future employment, learning how to use new software and advertising for how great the schools courses are.

[rubent100]

ooh a female did this. nice fusion has 3d system just like nuke. i didn't know. im using nuke myself to create these shots. but im also integrating live action. i think this scene is color corrected for non live action, am i wrong?

[ImaginationRendering]

Awesome! 10!!!!!!!!!!

youtube.com/watch?v=AYQplSZVxi­s

[mickycheese27]

kind of looks like gears of war 2

[flushatoalett]

I bet you're not a matte-painter.

[northliam]

That's true, I was just referring to matte paintings.

[Equinoxx7]

Matte painters need to know how to design, futuristic landscapes, buildings ect. Also the photographs are not stolen, any professional would not "steal" anything, many photographer's create stock accounts for artists to use, there are many stock sites as well. And finally, most decent matte painters have camera's of there own, and are photographer's themselves as well as painter's. please don't flame back, just discuss.

[Equinoxx7]

I see where your coming from, but artistic talent is still required. The artistic eye, an eye for Light, Composition and so on. It is true that most are not really paintings, in today's industry I think it is important to paint as less as possible, actually what lead matte painter at Framestore said, " paint as less as possible" because with technology getting better and so on, HD ect. huge cinema screens, you cant afford for anything in the slightest bit to look "fake".

[pixiniarts]

Very few matte painters 'just makes collages from bits of stolen photos' most artists paint digitally often creating their own brushes and they may also build and texture in 3d, some use traditional paintings imported into the computer, then there is 2.5d matte painting and displacement painting.. and very few steal photographs. Today's matte painters just have a different skill set and yes, plenty of artistic talent and knowledge is still a requirement.

[eddiefuzz]

Well in principle, I certainly agree with that, but the problem, is that the new digital FX doesn't always deliver better results. In the Hulk movies, for example, the Hulk himself looks like an animated cartoon, and many digital FX look more like computer games than real life.

[northliam]

Well yes, of course digitally is 'less difficult'. But that's the point, the industry has had to evolve to become more efficient and have better results. It requires a different type of skill, not less.

And also Davidescobell, generally, saying 'special effects' sums up every aspect of it, which means it includes visual FX.