Master in Matte Painting

Learn the techniques of Photo Bash and Matte Painting from the necessary artistic bases such as color, photography, lighting or framing to apply it efficiently while learning the software that will allow you to generate your own content.

Andre Furtado / pexels

You can train in three different ways:

• On-site: Classes are 3 hours a day from Monday to Thursday at our facilities.
• Telepresence: Students connect live with the teacher and their classmates from Monday to Thursday 3 hours a day. Once the classes are over, they hang out on the virtual campus to see them again as many times as needed.
• Online: Students have time freedom to access the classes recorded and uploaded by the teachers every day, and they have a weekly hour of tutoring with the teacher to resolve any doubts they may have.

Temary

History

Applications of Matte painting and photo bashing.

Practice: Find 6 Matte Painting / Photo Bashment works that inspire you and would like to achieve.

Composition

• Composition standards study.
• Classics Study
• Practical application of composition
• Breakdown of compositional rules

Practice: Analyze the compositional scheme of 5 classic works.

Color

• Theory of color
• The color wheel
• Basic colors
• Complementary colors
• Tertiary colors
• Color palette study
• The color wheel
• The triangle

Practice: Extract the color scheme of 5 classic works.

Perspective:

• Two vanishing point perspective
• Three vanishing point perspective
• Narrative use of perspective

Practice: Generate 6 composition sketches

Photography:

• Basic concepts of reflex photography.
• Shutter speed.
• The opening of the diaphragm.
• ISO sensitivity
• Wearing glasses.
• Lens aberrations and their application

Practices: photography

• 20 Textures
• 10 Animals
• 10 insects
• 20 Plants
• 10 Landscape
• 20 Objects
• 20 Macro
• 10 Portrait

Photoshop

• File management
• Essential tools; brush, eraser
• Brush settings
• Creating brushes
• Selection masks
• Cloning buffer
• Using layers
• Blending modes
• Color adjustments
• Hue, brightness and saturation of the image
• Filters
• Smoothie
• Outline the color palette

Practices: PHOTOBASH

• Anthropomorphic robot
• Non-anthropomorphic robot
• Action character.
• Vehicles: asphalt and plains
• Vehicles: off road
• Vehicles: motorcycles
• Vehicles: aerodynamic aerial
• Vehicles: space
• Fantastic Natural Spot by day.
• Fantastic Natural Place at night.
• Landscape with architectural ruins.
• Landscape with technological elements.
• Extra radio futuristic city.
• Futuristic city inside.
• Extra radio medieval city.
• Medieval city inside.

3D Max

• Interface
• Use of geometries and primitives.
• Modifier modeling
• Splines
• Spline modeling
• Polygonal modeling
• Subdivision modeling
• Uws
• Material editor
• illumination
• Render

Z Brush

• Basic concepts.
• Sculpt of organic models

Practice: Include in your Matte Painting elements created in 3D by yourself.

After effects

• Introduction
• File management.
• Using layers
• Blending modes
• Edit properties
• Timeline.
• Values animation
• More expensive
• Animated masks
• Filters
• Color adjustments
• Lighting settings
• Particle systems vs footage alpha.
• Rotobrush
• 3d layers
• Cameras and lighting
• Camera maping techniques.
• Tracking camera

Practice: Bring 5 of your original Matte Paintings to life.

Fusion

• Node Methodology
• Loaders
• Basic compositions
• Matte effects
• Atmospheric effects
• Color adjustments
• Camera tracking
• 3D camera
• Implementation of 3D elements
• Rendering

Practice: Bring 5 of your original Matte Paintings to life.

Project Pre-production

Construction of the Project pipeline

Pipeline structuring with Shotgun

• Follow-up assignments
• Optimize the Gantt chart
• Productivity parameterization
• Timing assignment and team milestones
• Tracking of production phases
• Cloud connection Desktop Experience in person and online
• Online project visualization
• Share management
• On-screen feedback
• Multitasking review
• Reduction of uncertainty in productivity analysis
• SCRUM methodology learning

Production

• Calendar calculation
• Feasibility metrics
• Testing
• Quality assurance
• Game pitch
• Marketing plan

Launch - prelaunch

• Market evaluation for departure dates
• Preparation for launch
• Pitch preparatory
• Presentation at events
• Project presentation court
• Presentation to the public

Tranmautritam / pexels

Teachers with real experience

Top teachers

Rafa Costa

• 3D Artist and Concept Artist.
• He has worked since 2003 for advertising agencies, design studios and architecture companies.
• He has participated in different projects such as: events, corporate videos, music videos, television shows, documentaries, films, commercials and video games, such as BattleField 4, Mafia III or Star Citizen.

Andrés Grueiro

• Film Director, he has won prizes for his projects such as 1st Prize and Special Jury Prize at Cambridge Shortfilms Contest (UK) and is related to the latest techniques of Virtual Cinema representation. He is currently a member of Utopic Estudios, a high-performance virtual reality and MOCAP technology company. He has worked in the world of Video Games making cinematics for Sunburned Games and is former president of AEV, Association of Students of Video Games.

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