[kaz]

I'm a student filmmaker and I'm very interested in using mattepainting to inhance visuals. I search and most of you use picture or paint but how would that look on video and is it good enough or would it be better to use video stock footage and place it together as one big matte? I'm a noob at this and I have combustion that I barely learning. can anyone help?

[Maryam]

Usually you use the matte painting as the base, and then add footage elements to give it more life (if needed). The matte painting itself can be made out of any type of element.

Take a look at our gallery to see how matte painting has been used in other productions.

And if you have a production in hand and looking for a solution for a specific shot, post it here and I’m sure people in this forum will help you.

I work alot with video elements and I do use alot of photoshop based images or renders from cinema 4D. Once you learn how to do camera mapping, the world opens up for you in understanding how pretty much everything you see on film and video is done.

So yes, you can easily match film and video resolutions.