{"id":144,"date":"2009-05-21T11:43:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T18:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/?p=144"},"modified":"2010-04-03T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T17:29:22","slug":"matte-painting-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Matte painting masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_146\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"size-full wp-image-146  \" title=\"matte-buck_rogers\" src=\"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/matte-buck_rogers.jpg\" alt=\"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century\" width=\"564\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/matte-buck_rogers.jpg 705w, https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/matte-buck_rogers-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buck Rogers in the 25th Century by Syd Dutton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Matte painting has been a love of mine for years. As a high school student I would look at the California skies and fantasize what steps I would have to take to render them out in paint.\u00a0 My early dinosaur stop motion experiments often had painted back grounds or elements in the shot.\u00a0 Over the years I have gathered a few fun matte shots that I can share.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a painting by Syd Dutton for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Buck Rogers in the 25th Century<\/span>\u00a0(1979). It was shot at an existing demolition site and employed the &#8220;original negative&#8221; compositing technique.\u00a0 This means that the live action was photographed with\u00a0a masked off (the matte), unexposed section of the frame. This film was not developed immediately, but was returned to the studio where Syd painted the ruins and sky\u00a0to fit into the unexposed section of the scene.\u00a0 The negative was run through the camera again and the painting was finally exposed onto the original negative of the live action then developed.<\/p>\n<p>This provided first generation quality matte painting composites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matte painting has been a love of mine for years. As a high school student I would look at the California skies and fantasize what steps I would have to take to render them out in paint.\u00a0 My early dinosaur stop motion experiments often had painted back grounds or elements in the shot.\u00a0 Over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,34],"tags":[38,9,81,60,39,78],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-film-vfx-history","category-visual-effects-techniques","tag-buck-rogers","tag-film-history","tag-matte-painting","tag-original-negative-matte-painting","tag-syd-dutton","tag-visual-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstipes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}