From Models to Matte Painting
Models and Matte painting are normally used in movie as they are the inexpensive and practical to produce effects that are impossible to recreate in real world. For instance, in “The Pianoist,” where Adrian Brody was walking out to the street showing all the houses along the end of the street wrecked by bombing. Filmmakers also used forced perspective to give us a false appearance of the size. Like in “Lord of the Rings,” where the director actually planned a precise false perspective that made the audience believes that Gandalf was larger than the house.
In this class, I learnt that with the skill to paint, the quality of the film will be different. People will actually believe that these places do exist. Some examples matte painting would be: “Independence day” where the space ship starts to fly into the sky of America, the fall of the liberty, building at the back was burning, in “Dick Tracy” where they show the full view of the town, in “Raiders of Ark,” the long scale of the warehouse and last but not least, in “Lord of the Rings” the battle against the Uruk-hai.
