Matte Painting Workshops and more
Three day, hands-on workshop August 27- 29, 2009
Learn digital painting techniques that could be used as a landscape, set, or distant location
Learn cutting-edge matte painting
Create stylized or photorealistic effects
When properly executed, a matte painting creates the visual effect or illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive to build, film, photograph or visit.
Section ID:072210
Time/Dates: Thurs, Fri, Sat, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.,
9/27 - 9/29 (3 meetings)
Fee: $695
Instructor: Eric Chauvin
No refund after: 8/24/2009
Prerequisite: Solid working knowledge of Photoshop
Eric Chauvin, M.S., has been nominated for 8 Emmy awards and has won twice. He began his career at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) as a matte painter on Steven Spielberg’s Hook; then on Memoir’s of an Invisible Man and Star Trek VI.
In November of 1995, he moved to Washington State and started his own effects facility, BlackPool Studios. There he has worked on numerous feature films, television shows and commercials including: Smallville, Alias, Star Trek Enterprise, X-Files, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Texas Rangers, Vertical Limit, Bicentennial Man, Contact, Starship Troopers, Return of the Jedi (re-release), Empire Strikes Back (re-release), Star Wars (re-release), Congo, Forest Gump, The Mask, Mission Impossible, Pirates of Treasure Island, Get Smart, Alien Trespass, and others.
Recently Chauvin has moved into not only creating the finished work for feature films, but working as the Visual Effects Supervisor as well.
