Matte Painting in Games

[@charoleawood]

I've always been arrested by matte paintings, even the chunky designs in the original Half-Life captured my imagination. Criterion's "Trickstyle", a Dreamcast launch game, had matte paintings to die for --- they're still beautiful to look at even now.

[@doko3000]

To me it was Quake 4, the Strogg world. They even added a little smoke effect out of a chimney in the distance, distant factories. I spent a good amount of time staring at that skybox art.

[@sdrawkcab_emanresu]

Is this a re-upload? I could have sworn I've seen the title and thumpnail before

[@gweatgawivarietydunk]

the description confirms that it is a reupload it seems

[@slothsarecool]

yep

[@sdrawkcab_emanresu]

Thanks you two

[@ahmedshakib3883]

The artwork is done by Max Burmann from learnsquarred.

[@chrisSandersASX]

wow so many good techniques and theory.

[@pilouuuu]

Matte paintings can work really well. A good example is the movie Robocop.

[@somefishhere]

Still a good watch though I’ve seen the presentation already

[@Domarius64]

It's uploaded 8 hours ago yet it's already been added way down one of my playlists! What weirdness is this ...

[@melindaweixler3682]

Ola! ♫♪♫♪

[@Domarius64]

I think a better movie / theatre analogy would be a "backdrop", not a matte painting.

[@aledmb]

exactly, i watched this whole thing thinking "why is he refering to that as a painting when it clearly is an animated 3d model?"

[@EcchiRevenge]

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[@fut0n]

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[@nintendude794]

Periodt.

[@alec_almartson]

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