A matte painting is a cinematographic special effect, used to create environments that would be too
expensive, too difficult or impossible to film (e.g. a scene on Pluto).

Nowadays, the term matte painting is assumed to refer to a digitally created painting, but traditionally it was
acrylics painted on glass. The painted image is then combined (composited) with the live (actor’s) footage.

To be specific about traditional vs. digital techniques, it’s sometimes referred to as a
digi matte (for digital matte painting) or as a Photoshop matte painting.

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The official website for the puzzle platform video game LittleBigPlanet has released some concept art and illustrations. The work displayed includes character and game level designs plus some photo montages to depict specific scenes in the game.

Link: www.littlebigplanet.com

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Vexel is a pixel-based form of raster art that imitates the visual appearance of vector graphics technique (i.e. sharp-edged lines and areas of flat colour or smooth gradient fills). The word itself is a portmanteau derived from a combination of “vector” and “pixel.

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Beautiful Illustrations of Mike Mitchell

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Illustrator Tiago Hoisel from São Paulo, Brazil, is one talented artist. His updated portfolio contains a large number of new and exciting illustrations, Caricatures of celebrities and funny cartoon in very bright colors.

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Nicolas Lesaffre is an animation director, graduated from supinfocom in France, where he codirected his graduation film Hemando. It has been selected in many festivals including Imagina, The Siggraph Solo Short Film, Anifest.

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Yulia Brodskaya was born in Russia; prior to moving to the UK in 2004 she was interested in diverse creative practices ranging from Textile Painting, Origami and Collage to more traditional Fine Art practices. Following an MA in Graphic Communication (2006, University of Hertfordshire) she continued to experiment and explore ways of bringing together all the things she likes most: typography, paper, and highly detailed hand-made craft objects. She has swiftly earned an international reputation for her innovative paper illustrations and continues to create beautifully detailed paper designs for clients all around the world.

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This awesome custom Munny by Australian illustrator Craig Bruyn breaks all moulds. I think this Munny looks like he arised Bioshock.

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Today I found this great portfolio from Magomed Dovjenko a freelance Illustrator residing in Germany. Who works mainly in design disciplines such as Illustration, Graphic Design and Art Direction.

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Found on my way through the Internet a great Illustrator via Think Design Blog . Please take a look here