Star Wars Episode 3's super high quality matte paint

The above image is not a live-action picture, but it is not necessarily 3DCG. It is what is called "mat paint". Click to enlarge it, but it is terribly dense. This is not a so-called three-dimensional CG so it's odoroki.

Matte paint is a background image used when synthesizing images, which was drawn on a glass plate in the past but in recent years it was created in Photoshop etc and created in 3D space instead of 2D It is possible to do, it is possible to move the viewpoint and so on. It is a technique that is still frequently used in movie production, because it can be done faster and cheaper than creating with full CG.

Among them, the digital mat paint image used in Star Wars episode 3 is excellent. Details are as below.
EPISODE III

"DUSSO" who was in charge of this matte paint is also in charge of mat paint of various movies.

The movie "Island"
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp59.1.html

Movie "Pirates of the Caribbean"
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp54.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp55.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp53.html

Movie "Lord of the Rings Two Towers"
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp45.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp49.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp48.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp47.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp46.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp51.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp44.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp43.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp42.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp41.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp40.html

Movie "Lord of the Rings Travel Companion"
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp03.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp29.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp28.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp17.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp07.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp06.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp21.html
http://www.dusso.com/images/mp02/mp05.html

Others are from the following.

Digital MattePainting

Looking at the credits, it seems that they also took charge of "Space War" and "Terminator 3", too.

Production Credits