This class will go in-depth into essential fundamentals of successful concept art for film as well as what it takes to create an epic and believable matte shot on your own. The course begins by diving into fundamentals of successful painting, studying compositions, lighting, color, perspective and much more. We’ll discuss how to come up with strong ideas for a painting, focusing on what should be taken into account when designing your shot. We’ll cover essentials from traditional art that are crucial to artistic success—starting with black and white sketches, you will learn design, composition as well as how to utilize lighting to tell the story in the best way possible.

We cover lots of different techniques and software, however, tools are just tools and everything can be done in any package of your choice. This is a perfect class if you want to learn how to be extremely fast and efficient when creating concept art for film. You will also gain new skills of producing film quality matte-paintings that are eventually translated into final moving shots. By the end of the class each student has at least three high quality portfolio ready paintings as well as final moving shots (optional).