The Matte Painting tutorial is a 39-page guide showing you, over five parts, the basics of Matte Painting, whilst also giving some more advanced techniques in the final chapter. Industry professional Tiberius Viris takes an interesting photograph and creates an easy-to-follow set of tutorials about how to add varying conditions to this - or any other - scene.

This tutorial is aimed at beginners, as well as those who already have some experience with matte painting - advanced knowledge of Photoshop is required in both cases. If you are not familiar with adjustment layers, layer masks or channels (RGB), you should read about these topics prior to starting this tutorial. The base image used within this tutorial can be found in the download file with the eBook.

SKU: MP001

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 - Day and night
In the first chapter, we cover how to transform the base image from a day scene into a night scene.

Chapter 2 - Sunshine to snow
The second chapter shows techniques for another common transformation: turning the base image into a winter scene.

Chapter 3 - Storm
In the third chapter, we look at using techniques from the first two chapters to transform the base image into a stormy scene.

Chapter 4 - Fire and smoke
The fourth chapter focuses on adding a pyro effect to the base image and shows how to create fire and smoke. Though not a common matte painting element, this chapter is based with an illustrative approach.

Chapter 5 - Tips and tricks
Having shown us techniques to get us hooked on matte painting, the final chapter in this tutorial covers the theory and fundamentals behind matte painting.