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Create a Decayed Sci-fi Matte Painting in Photoshop
7 students

Create a Decayed Sci-fi Matte Painting in Photoshop

Master Photoreal DMP for Games, Film and Animation
Created byRafael Falconi
Last updated 3/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • How to create a matte painting of a decayed sci-fi environment using Photoshop
  • Master the Researching, Moodboarding and Blocking Phase
  • Boost creativity with photobashing and paintover techniques while keeping an organized progress
  • Learn blending techniques towards a more photoreal look
  • Gain insights about composition, lighting and color grading for DMP
  • Complete a case study of a full project, step-by-step

Course content

6 sections • 18 lectures • 6h 51m total length

  • Introduction6:48

    Ideation - Brainstorming – Develop strong concepts and storytelling elements for your scene. Choosing good initial plates for solid creation, researching good quality assets and blocking out them after you visualize an idea is a good way to move forward.

Requirements

  • Basic Photoshop knowledge

Description

If you love and want to learn or improve your Digital Matte Painting skills, this course is for you! 

We´ll be exploring together the good and old 2D Invisible Art of DMP that never gets old even with 3D and AI out there.

This Visions of the Future is a personal Digital Matte Painting with a full voiceover demo in Photoshop, step by step.

We go through a real brainstorming, simulating real life project with briefing and references, clear direction and precise teachings about creativity, technique and art.

In this tutorial you´ll revealing the main 2D techniques and mindset used in a daily life of a senior matte painter creating photoreal DMPs in Photoshop. We´ll go together from start to finish: Moodboarding, researching and blocking to final touches.

You will get:⠀

  • ~7 HS voiceover video demo in Photoshop

  • 18 video clips | mp4 format | English narration

  • Step-by-step classes focused on workflow mindset⠀

You will learn in 18 classes:

  • How to design a Decayed Sci-fi environment using Photoshop

  • Digital Matte Painting techniques

  • Create a photorealistic composition from scratch

  • How to organize your PSD files and export for comp

  • How to think about your design strategies and choose good assets

  • Photobashing fast photos for conceptual stage of production

  • Photoreal blending techniques for DMP

  • How to use advanced "blending techniques" like "blend if"⠀

  • How to seamlessly combine multiple photos with attention to detail

  • How to add atmosphere with painting skills and photo manipulation⠀

  • How to create realistic water reflection using blur, noise and displace

  • How to improve your composition skills

Pre-requirements:⠀

  • Basic Photoshop knowledge required⠀

Extras

  • 4K Wallpaper of the final artwork

  • Layer Breakdown, JPG previews and final PSD used at the creation


Who this course is for:

  • Artists curious about matte painting techniques

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