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Digital Matte Painting Essentials 3: Tone with David Mattingly

After you've perfected your perspective drawing, the next step in the matte painting process
is to layer in tone: the master tool in the matte artist's arsenal for establishing a fully
formed structure. David Mattingly, a matte artist for many groundbreaking motion pictures,
takes a black-and-white drawing and shows how to use the five elements of light—dark sides,
light sides, cores, cast shadows, and final darks— to paint the surfaces and create a
realistically shaded environment in Adobe Photoshop.

This course is part 3 in David's Digital Matte Painting Essentials series.
Go back to part 2 to recreate the castle drawing he uses in this course,
or if you simply want to learn more about form, you can use the example
provided in the exercise files.

Level: Beginner
Length: 1h 18m
Released: September 19, 2013

Topics include:
Selecting the silhouette
Find the dark sides and light sides in the drawing
Using mask-holding layers
Examining the light and dark sides of rounded surfaces
Looking at the cores
Adding cast shadows
Separating surfaces with final darks
Adding ambient occlusion


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