David Mattingly Day For Night Tutorial

Matte painting affords seamless integration between an artist s painting with live action film footage and allows for greater flexibility and creative input in the appearance of movie settings.

David mattingly day for night tutorial. David mattingly has taught and nurtured the next generation of digital matte artists as a professor at two of the nation s leading art schools school of visual arts and pratt institute. The only how to guide dedicated to mastering the technique of digital matte painting. My first work of this kind was on mattingly material see matte painting post to transform in a day for night a photo of monaco. Why not just shoot at night.

Day to night projects these projects were completed by students who studied with david mattingly. The next work was changing season at a little english town. Get this from a library. Thearon mckinney a retired nc state university 4 h professor nationally recognized for his volunteer leadership and marketing programs was recently inducted into the national 4 h hall of fame.

Click on a preview image to open the movie in a new window. Visit the new espn audio player to hear your favorite shows and podcasts. In order for the detail to be seen these are larger video files and they may take a moment to start playing. Although many advances have been made in film sensitivity with the advent of digital filmmaking it s still harder to shoot at night and achieve a proper exposure.

As you see in addition to lights transition i added a mountain background and clouds in the sky to give more appeal to composition. David s former students now do cutting edge work at major studios and effects houses including framestore pixar nathan love curious pictures psyop look. David b mattingly the only how to guide dedicated to mastering the technique of digital matte painting matte painting affords seamless integration between an artist rsquo s painting with live action film footage and. Shooting a video at night can be very difficult and so this method of turning day into night is better.

Turn a day shot into a night shot with color grading to get that realistic cinematic look.