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succeed as a digital artist, through “the art, the tools and technique” (Wright, 1). This can be applied to a varying range of visual narrative effects, one of them including matte painting. Matte painting, one of the longest standing forms of visual effects, is a traditionally 2D scene created to enhance or further extend a visual image or composite. The art form itself has been seen since the early 1800’s. Examples such as George Melies, “1898 film Un Homme de Têtes – Four Heads Are Better Than One” (Rocketstock). It has critical importance in western cinema, especially today. Through various categories of focus this paper will provide an all-encompassing understanding of the art form to enhance one’s…

Shah Gabrielse VFX Mattes Essay 21600180 This essay will explain the uses of mattes, alpha channels, and masks, while defining what they are and demonstrating a scenario wherein they work together during compositing. To start off with, let’s define compositing. Compositing is taking different visual media and blending them together. This makes it look like separate elements are part of the same scene. Ifyou look to the figure on the right, you can clearly see the different layers used and how…

The purpose of this paper is to articulate how “Legacy Leader” General James Mattis influenced me. Mattis’ earned the nickname “Warrior Monk” for his compassion and willingness to do what is necessary to win. His message of balancing thought and action, impacted service members across all services and helped me define the legacy I would like to leave. Inspirational Leader Impact on the Force Mattis, as an intellectual and combat tested warrior, motivated service members across all services to…

Flat/Matte Wraps Flat matte wraps are well-known to give your vehicle a unique look. Instead of doing a painting job on your vehicle, it makes your vehicle appear as if a paint job is done on it and it will stay for a very long time. When thinking on making a change on your vehicle, there’s no better way than a flat matte wraps. It will make your vehicle completely different color than what it is now, the matte wrap looks awesome and eye catchy. If you’re not into the full flat matte appearance…

Rice, a 12-year old boy, dead. These are all cases of police brutality. The “Black Lives Matter” movement was started as a result of this. “Police brutality is, an issue that is big in America currently, defined as the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians. “Excessive use of force” means a force well beyond what would be necessary in order to handle a situation.”(“What”) Between the dates of April 2009 and June 2010 there were 5,986 reports of…

Has Mattie changed in Fever 1793, written by L. Anderson? Many people can change, especially on the inside. Here are three examples of how Mattie has changed. Throughout the realistic fiction novel, Mattie became exponentially stronger in mentally and physically. She has also become more cautious and independent. The first change Mattie has gone through is becoming stronger. Mattie used to be weak; When Polly died she felt feverish and couldn't handle the death. The author states this in…

Darya Mattes strongly expresses this common trend in the essay “Accused Children in the Salem Witchcraft Crisis”. Mattes points out the extreme lack of evidence against the children implicated in the trials, stating that “the only evidence offered against the children was spectral” (Accused Children). Marc Callis highlights several of the written reactions to the Salem Witch Trials, and it is a common thread that after the trials spectral evidence was deemed by almost everyone to be an unlawful…

sixth sense, congratulations, it turns out you were right all along...sort of. In a new paper published in Chemical Senses, Richard D. Mattes, a professor of nutritional science at Purdue University makes an argument that not only do human beings have tastes for sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami, they also have the ability to taste pure fat. Not that Mattes calls its fat of course, he prefers to call it oleogustus. While oleogustus isn’t a real word in the dictionary sense of things, it…

A mediator to the green screen “digital mattes” we are accustomed to today, matte paintings were used to fill in parts of a scene’s background. Enduring for several decades, they were used throughout the 1970s and 80s, blending in with the live action shots so well that even trained eyes couldn’t tell the difference. The original Star Wars film is famous for its supreme characters and memorable story, but the film was an breathtaking technical achievement as well. George Lucas formed his own…

convertible was a hit. Our only concern was the addition of chrome exhaust, which we think is out of place. Asdrubal Cabrera and the orange Camaro Just like Victor Ramirez, Asdrubal Cabrera of the Cleveland Indians also love the Camaro, and took the initiative to send his Camaro to the same tuning house, MC Customs in Miami, Florida. The Florida-based tuning shop threw almost everything on this orange Camaro to come up with a bold and loud sports car. While this is designed as a…