Background

Traditionally, matte paintings were fabricated by artists application paints or pastels on ample bedding of bottle for amalgam with the live-action footage.[1] The aboriginal accepted matte painting attempt was fabricated in 1907 by Norman Dawn (ASC), who improvised the crumbling California Missions by painting them on bottle for the cine Missions of California.[2] Notable acceptable matte-painting shots accommodate Dorothy’s access to the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz, Charles Foster Kane’s Xanadu in Citizen Kane, and the acutely bottomless tractor-beam set of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The aboriginal Star Wars documentary anytime fabricated (The Making of Star Wars, directed by Robert Guenette in 1977 for the television) mentioned the address acclimated for the tractor axle arena as actuality a bottle painting.[3]

By the mid-1980s, advancements in computer cartoon programs accustomed matte painters to assignment in the agenda realm. The aboriginal agenda matte attempt was created by painter Chris Evans in 1985 for Young Sherlock Holmes for a arena featuring a computer-graphics (CG) action of a charlatan leaping from a stained-glass window. Evans aboriginal corrective the window in acrylics, again scanned the painting into LucasFilm’s Pixar arrangement for added agenda manipulation. The computer action (another first) attenuated altogether with the agenda matte, article a acceptable matte painting could not accept accomplished