Category: Introduction

Filmmaking is all about telling stories, and stories take place in locations. But what if the story is set in a location that is inaccessible or indeed doesn’t even exist? After all, our inability to send a film production to Mars, didn’t prevent us from depicting its environment in Total Recall (1990 and 2012) or … Continue reading Preamble

Ever since the first recorded example, produced by Norman Dawn for California Missions, released in 1907, matte paintings have been an intrinsic and essential part of filmmaking. In the early days, matte paintings were produced by placing a sheet of glass between the camera and the scene to be filmed. The artist would then paint … Continue reading History of Matte Painting