Albert Whitlock - matte painter

A tribute to Albert Whitlock, two-time Oscar winning effects specialist from Hollywood. This demo reel shows some the best work during his career that spanned almost 60 years.
This little movie was put together by Craig Barron, member of the Visual Effects Society.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Albert Whitlock
• matte painting
• Hollywood
• visual effects
• Academy Award
• Craig Barron
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Universal

[Humbertusmarius]

The world was really fortunate to enjoy this guy's talent.

[biffmercury]

Whitlock was amazing. Thanks for posting this. It's a moving tribute to one of the finest artists ever to grace to motion picture profession.

[mooreentstudios]

Amazing artist.

[PahangDragonbird]

@iscreamer1 I don't think so, but I heard it exists.

However, that disaster scene is longer than the one in the movie. You can see the fireball advance further a bit.

I heard the part where the airship was dropping water ballast 6:09 used a matte painting and sugar as the water! :P

[toddythorsten]

There was an exhebition with some of Al's Matte Paintings in Frankfurt-Germany twenty years ago. The first time, when I entered the room I tought I am looking at

photographs, but when I had a clooser look I was amazed, how he did it, how simple he did it with his brushstrokes. An that is the secret, not being to perfect, to photorealistic in painting, so the painting "lives". And he was painting for the camera, to make it look right. Thanks for the tribute - Thorsten Binte VFX-Superv.

[SecretCinemaDVD]

The majority of the films he worked on in his career were before the digital technology existed. His last film was "Chaplin" in 1992. He passed away in 1999. God bless you Albert...

[thrillscience]

Why didn't he just use Photoshop and After Effects?

[iscreamer1]

0:38-0:42 was that supposed to be the original color negative of the disaster scene from The Hindenburg?

[FantaEr]

Thank you. Great tribute to an amazing artist.