Maleficent

This project was long, had a change of leadership and a few rotations of matte paint teams during process . The key art was provided by Dylan Cole (Client side Production Design). I mostly worked on the big battle scene which included multi-layered Nuke projections of complex matte paints. Originally we were asked to simply take the original key files provided by Dylan Cole and project them in Nuke as master environments. We quickly realized the photoshop files sent by the client could not be used in this way. This required major repaints in an effort to match the Keys as closely as possible.

Original Matte Paint, (the big boulders were supplied by lighting). I set up the nuke script so that the trees were on multiple layers as well as the clouds, fog, and god rays. I also added a very slight drift to the clouds and fog. Breaking this master shot into separate layers allowed comp some room to play with the fog and God rays.

Matte Paint with Plate (slapcomp)

Matte Paint: forest, smaller boulders, branches, hills and sky. I set up this matte painting to include many layers. Dan Canfora was the TD assigned to this shot and was in charge of this nuke setup.

Matte Paint: FG, MG, BG, field, sky, rocks, forest fog, and God rays. I was responsible for the Matte Painting as well as setting up the nuke script. everything was provided to comp on separate layers so they could dial in the elements as they were directed.

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