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Hi friends... it's autumn here now and the season is turning a different colour 'down under' (sounds like something a medic should prompt...| nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com
Greetings fellow matte painting and traditional special effects fans. I'm back with yet another mammoth blog post celebrating that wonderful movie magic that was created before the intrusion of the wretched 'computer', 'megabytes' and 'binary code(!)'. The days when true craftsmen (and crafts-women) and artistes conjured up endless cinematic wonders, more often than not with the most basic and elementary of resourses and heaps of pragmatic inventiveness.| Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx
It's been a while, and a few loyal and long time dedicated Matte Shot readers of foreign locales have been gently 'prompting' me to "pull finger", and get some damned mattes and models onto the cyber-waves. It's summer here, and household jobs, bits of carpentry and sundry unsavoury repairs - too numerous to mention - have held my attention of late, but they are pretty much done, so here we are.| Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx
Greetings to all who are particularly partial to the long lost era of traditional, hand painted mattes and other ingenious motion picture 'tricks of the trade'. It is indeed that time again - perhaps a little overdue according to some of my faithful correspondents - for a veritable cavalcade of amazing (and in a few isolated instances, perhaps not so flash) special photographic and miniature trick shots from across the long and wide cinema spectrum.| Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx
Welcome fans and devotees of old school mattes, models and clever trick photography. It's time once again for another giant of a blog post, and I do emphasize, giant! I never do these things by half-measures and always try to cover all possible bases when examining and illustrating these amazing hand rendered moments of movie magic.I have a vast collection of shots here, from a very broad cross section of movies. As usual there are some very rare mattes that nobody has ever seen which s...| Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx
Hello again friends and olde timey matte and trick shot enthusiasts. It's that time again for a trip through the cinematic museum of movie wizardry and creativity from the pre-computer era. I call this my mid-winter blockbuster, as it is that particular season right now where I am, and what better time than to dust off a multitude of visual effects wonders to feast your eyes upon. Seriously.| Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx
This blog is intended primarily as a tribute to the inventiveness and ingenuity of the craft of the matte painter during Hollywoods' Golden Era. Some of the shots will amaze in their grandeur and epic quality while others will surprise in their 'invisibility' to even the sophisticated viewer. I hope this collection will serve as an appreciation of the artform and both casual visitors and those with a specialist interest may benefit, enjoy and be amazed at skills largely unknown today.| nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com
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