After some time looking at still images and paintings, I tried to see the relevance in my area of interest, namely film. Remembering a star wars exhibition I attended years ago at the Media Museum, I saw many matte paintings used as backdrops in the original films and recall how beautiful they were as standalone works of art.
Original matte painting from IML on glass.
A quick search on the internet brought up another artist called Dylan Cole, who has done matte paintings for lord of the and The Chronicles of Riddick and are stunning works of Art. (see below)
It is easy to forget that while paintings are a more traditional medium, their relevance stretches throughout all others. Advertising, newspapers and moving images all conform to similar conventions of paintings, (rule of thirds, composition, lighting and so on).
In this age of digital manipulation the viewer of films and images cannot be sure that what they are viewing is actually the original image. The old saying 'seeing is believing' is harder to qualify these days.
Here is a before and after image from Frederic St-Arnaud for work on the film Wind in the Willows.
Only the middle section of the house remains, but re-textured and rebuilt using other image components.
Using another of Frederic's images
I thought I'd try and compose my own version of this train scene using different image components within after effects and add a little motion.
(my rough attempt)
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