20 Amazing Matte Painting Examples of Cities

The evolution of the concept of matte painting can be traced back to the first decade of the 1900’s, when background scenes were painted on glasses and later on integrated with the videos shot. These were mainly used because it was impossible to reach to distant location for shooting a scene of a movie as the transport system was on a developing stage. Moreover, matte painting was a cost effective option. Before 1980’s all the pictures of the matte paintings were hand drawn by skillful artists and they were proficiently merged with live shots to give a seamless effect. This technique is in vogue even today and matte paintings are primarily used for creating background scenes of the science fiction movies.

With the development of the digital medium, these matte paintings began to be created using digital platform. Even today, traditional as well as digital matte paintings are rampantly used for shooting various parts of the films, but the paintings are so precise and they are incorporated in the actual scene with such sensitivity that viewers cannot make any difference between real and the artificial world.

In this blog post, we have collected photos of twenty amazing matte painting of cities. Most of these matte paintings are the result of the imagination conjured by the artists on their mind’s eye. You might be familiar with some of these paintings as these were used in some of the most famous fantasy fictions. These paintings are so realistic that they will make you believe that such a world do exists.