{"id":1398,"date":"2011-10-08T10:34:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T14:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2011-10-08T10:34:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T14:34:37","slug":"lost-and-found-matte-paintings-and-production-art-by-yanick-dusseault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/08\/lost-and-found-matte-paintings-and-production-art-by-yanick-dusseault\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost and found – matte paintings and production art by Yanick Dusseault"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Retro<\/a>\n
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Over at The Intrepid Engine<\/em><\/a>, an unattributed matte painting was a mystery that was happily solved with Tineye’s excellent image search tool. Tineye<\/a> examines an image and returns a series of matches from the web: it’s a great way to re-identify some of the countless pictures on the web that have lost their makers through thoughtless reposting.<\/p>\n

<\/a>And this turned out to be a very happy find. It was the work of Yanick Dusseault<\/a>, production artist, matte painter, and now an art director at Industrial Light and Magic. The image at the right is a part of that original mystery picture; it looks a lot like Gotham City in Christopher Nolan’s Batman films. Curiously, those films don’t show up in Dusseault’s extensive credits – even though The Lord of the Rings, Gattaca, Pirates of the Caribbean, Revenge of the Sith<\/em>, and a gazillion other amazing films do. So go figure.<\/p>\n

But anyway it’s inevitable that the image above is the one that grabbed me<\/em>, since I’m always up for The World of Tomorrow.<\/p>\n

In my entire life there have been only twenty seconds when I wanted to work in film, and I got over it immediately. But I always enjoy the work that these folks do, and here, especially. Dusseault’s gallery<\/a> is a wonderful, ongoing body of work.<\/p>\n

About all I found to like in the Star Wars prequels were the matte paintings and complete shots of the cities; that and, okay, the one scene where Obi Wan used his Jedi trickery to convince a lowlife to rethink his life <\/em>(there was a whole and much more interesting movie in that single scene, I thought). It’s a pleasure to get a peek behind the curtain at one of the people who brought those places, and others, to life.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at The Intrepid Engine, an unattributed matte painting was a mystery that was happily solved with Tineye’s excellent image search tool. Tineye examines an image and returns a series of matches from the web: it’s a great way to re-identify some of the countless pictures on the web that have lost their makers through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}