Matte Painting
Matte painting is a method used by artists to create proportional landscapes and backgrounds for things that cannot be photographed or used in real life. which normally consist of mostly sci-fi movies and art for games.
We had been shown an artist called Dylan Cole whom has worked on several projects, including lord of the rings, the chronicles of riddick and Avatar.
Dyan is also a well known concept artist, specialising in video games and television adverts, the southern california native always had a passion for drawing, initial interest in comic book art gave way to matte painting and concept design after seeing comic book art of star wars.
Dylan attended UCLA ( University of california, Los Angeles ) as a fine arts major where he continued to work within art. Within a year and a half of graduation, he was on his way to New Zealand to go and do a matte painting for return of the king, since then Dylan has contributed art to over 50 films including Tron, Avatar and Alice in Wonderland.
Dylan Enjoys doing instructional workshops around the world at various events and schools and also has his own instructional DVD's from the Gnomon workshop for sale for those who want to be taught how to matte paint professionally.
Bert Monroy
While I was researching matte paintings, I had also spent my time researching an artist called Bert Monroy, Bert Monroy was born and raised in new york city where he spent 20 years in the advertising industry as an art director and creative director for various agencies as well as his own. Bert currently lives with his wife in Berkeley, California.
Bert Monroy's Times square is the biggest painting that he has ever created pushing the boundaries of the hardware and software as far as they can go. the flattened file weighs 6.52GB's and took 4 years to complete and is compromised of over 15,000 separate photoshop and illustrator files.
The digital artist created each element using Adobe Photoshop and adobe illustrator. He built the 6.52GB image pixel by pixel, using more than 750,000 Photoshop layers. Monroy spent countless hours creating intensely detailed scenes, the likenesses of his family, friends and many luminaries in the imaging industry, and landmarks in and around Times Square.
Bert Monroy focused heavily on every tiny little detail in the image, the smallest of the small, each and every pixel had been perfectly placed for the perfect image. One of the many reasons as to why he chose Times Square as a great place to do his art piece is because times square has so many different colours, let alone objects and activities going on, Bert wanted to focus on the in depth details of the " city life " . what people are doing, how they are feeling, and where they are going. The city's times square as previously mentioned has a heavy focus on colour and brightness, there are many different colours and different levels of saturation that really brings this city alive, and that's what Bert Monroy wanted to re-capture in his art piece, and I feel he's done this rather well.
