Damien Mace - digital matte painter

Friday, 22 February 2013

Showreel 2013

https://vimeo.com/60275572
Here is my new showreel. More dmp to come shortly.

Sunday, 17 February 2013

Narnia 2 Invisible Army

Pano shot. The tree is cut because 'out of frame'.

Narnia 2 Invisible Army

Set Extension done at Framestore for Narnia 2

Your Highness

Before/After done at Framestore few years ago.

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Dredd

concept done at Framestore with my friend Martin McRae. A very talent Digital Matte Painter.

Thursday, 10 May 2012

If you want to see more of how we did it, have a look at this video, but also at the Bluray bonus from Game of Thrones season 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhG1i_BobWY

I will update this blog with some more dmp from Avatar, Snow White and the Huntsman, Sherlock Holmes 2 and maybe some more movies I have been involved in.

cheers

D

Game of Thrones s1

Unseen dmp of the Wall. note that part of it was use to create the first dmp of the Wall the way you see it in the serie.

Game of Thrones s1

dmp before comp

Game of Thrones s1

Unseen dmp cut from the edit.

Game of Thrones Season 1

Monday, 26 December 2011

Scifi project

Game of Thrones

A dmp I did for Game of Thrones. I will upload plenty more soon as I have been working on the entiere first season of the show.

AVATAR

the first image is a crop of the wider dmp at the bottom. Sometimes we need to create really big images in order to pan/zoom/rotate inside. Here is an example for Avatar.
You'll notice the stitch is from the previz we worked from.

AVATAR

Example of final touch dmp does for full CG movies like Avatar. We took the rendered 3D light and textured, and on top of it we 'painted' additional details.
Here, it's mainly stains and light bounce, as well antennas and other minor details.

Monday, 28 February 2011

Harry Potter 7 part1

Concept for HP7. Unfortunatly we didn't got awarded the shot, so you will not find it in the movie.

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Concept Space Marines

A quick concept from William King's book, "Space Wolf".

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Sherlock Holmes

Final

Sherlock Holmes

Before/After

Sherlock Holmes

On the next few post, I will show you some steps in the process of a camera projected matte painting. This example is using 6 Proj Cameras or so. Then on a later stage, a comp artist is adding the people around the shot from live action elements shot with a camera mount on a rig that recreates the same movement all the times.

Monday, 21 June 2010

Prince of Persia

same as before, but bigger resolution.

Sherlock Holmes

Projected dmp. Changing the live action elements into old London elements. dmp, had to be split into few layers, then projected.

Prince of Persia

Projected dmp, needed to re do the environment behind the actor, as well as the ground.

Prince of Persia

Replacing the ground and revealing a stone path.

Sunday, 21 February 2010

Red Balloon the movie

Have a look at the movie I co-directed with my friend Alexis Wajsbrot.

http://www.redballoonthemovie.com

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Avatar

Ok, for those who will look at the movie frame by frame to check where this dmp is, first, the color grade is wrong. It is just a grade for me to work, that have check during the production.
Also, at the very end, Cameron asked to remove the tarmac, and the reflection light are different.
You have to understand that due to Stereoscopic render, I had to provide a LOT of layer, pretty much everything was on layer for the compositor to be more flexible if modification. So you are looking at a flat version I deliver, but then the comp does his.
I will send some more Avatar work I did in the future.

Sherlock Holmes

Once again, an other big dmp (16K, 16Bits).
I will post some more cropped details areas later.

Sherlock Holmes

This is a HUGE dmp (16 K in 16 Bits), I will send some more details area of that matte painting later.
This is as far as I went, because it is slightly different in the movie, Sean Samuels did a little fix of the Tower Bridge from a client request later on. So in the movie it appears with 3 more lights on the bridge.
Also it is a flat version that I show you, but due to the camer movement it is all projected with a lot of parallax on the right side of it. I will also send that later.

Sherlock Holmes

From top to bottom ( plate/dmp/shot )

Monday, 14 December 2009

Sometimes the moon is velvet

Concept for "Sometimes the moon is velvet"

Sometimes the moon is velvet

Concept for the "Sometimes the moon is velvet" from Thomas Phillips, a good friend of mine. This live action short, looks amazing!

COPS

Illustration for a Role Playing Game called COPS, by Asmodee. I did work with them for a little while, then my daytime work did not allow me to carry one, has I was too busy then.

Wolfman

Initially the transformation was meant to be full prosthetic, but we were still asked to do a CG version, so here is some concept for the CG one. I didn't see the movie yet, so I don't know if it has been kept or not.