Matte Paintings

[ravells]

This from a guy (Andreas Rocha) who said 'I'll try to do better next time' - took him 4 days to paint.

http://community.imaginefx.com/forums/thread/28555.aspx

Link to movie here (http://www.andreasrocha.com/stuff/ani/SpringSunset.mov) (it's a slow loader but worth the wait)

[Arcana]

I've always loved matte painting...There's some phenomenal matte painters over at CGSociety as well. Thats some nice work tho!

[jaerdaph]

I've always been impressed with the work of the matte painters from the pre-CGI golden era of Hollywood movies and television. The original Star Trek series, for example, had some wonderful matte paintings:

http://www.trekp.com/posters/gw018-matte%20painting1.jpg

http://www.trekp.com/posters/gw024-matte%20painting3.jpg

http://www.trekp.com/posters/gw021-matte%20painting2.jpg