Digital Tutors - Creating and Animating a Matte Painting in Photoshop and After Effects

Duration 2h 16m

Difficulty Level Advanced

Project Files Included

Software used

Photoshop CS6, After Effects CS6

What you will learn

In this training we will go over the process of creating and animating our very own matte painting.

In the first section of this tutorial you will go through the process of creating a realistic matte painting for film and high end animation. Then, we will take our creation into After Effects to add camera movements and animation.

These step-by-step lessons will start by covering the basics of how to prepare your matte painting in Photoshop, whilst covering subjects such as digital painting, lighting, scale, values, and perspective along the way.

Guest Tutor

Jonathan Lam

from the Creative Development series

1. Introduction and project overview 01:08

2. Thumbnail studies in Photoshop 15:30

3. Refining thumbnail selection for the matte painting 07:51

4. Extracting clouds and sky from photos 08:13

5. Extracting cliffs and leaves from photos 10:55

6. Combining the extracted photos into the matte painting 10:18

7. Blending grass into the scene 10:51

8. Adding sky and a temple into the scene 13:22

9. Painting a waterfall in the scene 10:26

10. Color correction and lighting for matte painting 09:27

11. Building shadows and light values 10:04

12. Introducing scale into the matte painting 06:28

13. Converting the matte painting into an animation 10:17

14. Using the animation camera in After Effects 05:40

15. Implementing video files for the animation 05:57

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