What are your favorite background matte paintings?

Say what you want about older movies and their crappy looking effects, but man you have to give credit where credit is due when it comes to painting backgrounds. Before CGI allowed artists to fully create beautiful looking landscapes, they had to be painted by hand. There's just something about that old-timey look that really reaches out and give those movies a sense of wonder and timelessness that's hard to recreate with CGI. I can't be the only one who loves them, so here's a few of my pics to share with you guys.

• Raiders of The Lost Ark warehouse scene
• Stormtroopers gathered up for the big cheese Emperor's arrival
• Superman's fortress of solitude
• Blade Runner's atmospheric balcony scene
• Black Narcissus cliff cathedral landscape

Does anyone else find those really cool, and have other ones to share?

Submitted September 22, 2020 at 04:42AM by Volkov07 https://ift.tt/3cms3UY