Star Wars, Matte Paintings And Non-Digital Visual Effects - Video Essay
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- George Lucas and Industrial Light & Magic took an old visual effect in film and turned it into a frightening mind-blowing experience.
It's sad to see such an awesome visual effect has been laid to rest because of CGI but the artists that created these matte paintings blew my mind and created my favorite films.
Industrial Light & Magic re-invented traditional matte paintings and made it one of the best storytelling tools. Crafting the environment in some of the most magical scenes you’ve seen. Past the year 2000, it hasn't been used because it's far too expensive to employ an army of artists to create environments, but it lives on inside a computer thanks to a green screen and key pulling.
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Footage used -
Industrial Light & Magic - Traditional Matte Paintings (rare footage)
How Silent Movie Special Effects Were Done
Star Wars Episode - A New Hope
Star Wars Episode - The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode - Return of the Jedi
Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring
Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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All the practical effects, pre CGI.
Rear projection, stop motion, optical effects, traditional animation, and of course, matte paintings.
7 Years in Tibet and Titanic I believe were the last films to use glass matte paintings. Both only have one shot each and they are brief but kinda cool they still used them up until 1997.
I would like to see a filmmaker revive the art of actual painted mattes for one more big, epic film. It will take someone with the love of the old classics, who will want to revive that specific look. I just got done watching Black Narcissus last night and it was amazing.
Very nice and quick explanation! Thanks!
It's one of my favorite visual effects. Sometimes you don't even see that it's painted, and if you do, it has a certain kind of charm. One of my favorites has got to be the one in John Carpenter's The Thing when they find the spaceship.
I'd also bet that Wes Anderson still uses the technique. I don't know if he does, but it would certainly fit his unique style.
The only matte painting I ever noticed by myself is the empire stormtroopers range shot, as for the rest I wouldn't even think of them being painted
Awesome video! Looking forward to more.
You really need to make more video. Essays like this
honeybear oh it would be great man, you have a beautiful voice and the short videos are great
honeybear well I think it fits really well with the videos
My favorite V.F.X would be miniatures
Wow great job man.
Its still around! CG is a form of it, but it's far easier and faster to do these days.
Do you know of any recent films that have used a physical matte painting. It would be cool to check them out and maybe do a follow up 🐻
Great video brother! 👊🏼👌
Got a new video coming soon
I think they should keep doing it.
Absolutely. It looks way more impressive than some overly shiny and glowing CGI
Especially considering that Artists are really good at realistic paintings.
@@julioacceus253 I'd like to imagine some upcoming sequels may do it, I'm a bit disappointed that Blade Runner 2049 didn't do it. It's an incredibly hard topic to find information on if any recent films have attempted to do it. But as it is all hand made, I guess no one is even considering it with the expensive costs that come with it.
Slit Scan is also a cool technique that I feel has been lost in time :(
@@thehoneyybear I wish the same for Dune. Still excited for it.
very informative, but i don't understand how the painting is combine with the actual scene, do they shoot them again together after projection?
0:06 not a Matte Painting that’s CGI from the 1997 Special Editions of Star Wars
oh, is that really CGI on Coruscant?? there was some in the prequels!
@@thehoneyybear That wasn’t Corusaunt it was Cloud City from The Empire Strikes Back, although yes there absolutely were Matte Paintings shots of Corusaunt
@@alcarbo8613 ah you are absolutely right about the city names, i just realised, i got them mixed up!
I will certainly check out the differing editions of the movies sometime, as i hear the de-specialized versions are really good to see!
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Ya know what i dont get. Instead of painting on the glass why not just print out an image on paper and then stick that paper to the glass?
It wouldn't always look smooth
@@UrAverageFR_Teen I was thinking about trying this technique myself, using a blowup of a photograph on a glass sheet. The photo would be cut out where it needed to blend with the real life location. I don't know if it'd work.