Digital Matte Painting: Changing a Scene From Summer to Winter

- [Voiceover] Hi, this is David Mattingly, author of the Digital Matte Painting handbook. For this digital matte painting tutorial we're going to take this plate showing an alpine chalet in the mountains and using some great digital matte painting techniques I'll demonstrate, take this from a summer scene to a winter scene. First, we're going to get rid of the grass in the foreground and replace it with a snow texture. Then, add snow to the foothills and winterize the mountains. Then we're going to add snow to the roof of the chalet and all of the shrubs surrounding it.

Next, replace the sky with two layers of new clouds and create a dusk version of the same scene, again, replacing the sky. Then we'll add a glow to the foothills, add lit windows to the chalet, and add some smoke rising up out of the chimney. Then, finally, we're going to create an animated version of this scene and after effects where we'll cross dissolve between the summer and winter versions. This may look like a lot of work, but using the advanced techniques I'll show you we'll do all of this from start to finish in real-time, in under two hours.

So, let's get started!