matte artist

MATTE PAINTING ARTISTS

Those are pictures that I've got from books, magazines and web sites. Some of them they have been sent to me from people like James Aupperle, David Mattingly, David Stipes, or Rocco Gioffre, to whom I'm deeply thankful.
I have included some artists whom started their careers painting with brushes, and actually are painting digitally. Since the appearance of digital FX, the number of digital matte painters is growing in great number.

This is a list of artists, not only matte painters, also scenic artist, model makers, storyboard artist, art directors or stopmotion animators. Some of them with full dedication to the art of matte paintings during his careers, like Peter Ellenshaw, some others only painted mattes at some moment oh his career, like animator Willis Obrien, or art director and sketch artist Ivor Beddoes.
If you have pictures of matte artists and you want to share it, please send it to me. I will be happy to place it here.
LINKS:
There are some other excellent web pages dedicated to digital matte paintings like www.mattepainting.org . Therefore, I dedicate this one to the almost extinct art of painting glass shots with brushes.
A great place to share your knowledge and enthusiasm about traditional matte paintings is the matte painting tread at:
http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/dc/dcboard.php
An extraordinary blog by matte enthusiast Peter Cook dedicated to Visual effects "old style" with in deep approach of the Golden Era Matte Paintings. http://nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com/
Another great site to visit is from British visual effects technician Dennis Lowe who is doing an exceptional work with his documentaries on British FX artists like Les Bowie, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder, Leigh Took, etc... Highly recommended for FX fans , don´t miss the "Alien" documentaries.
http://www.zen171398.zen.co.uk/index.html
Click on the picture or the name, to see some samples of the artists.

MATTE ARTISTS:
(In alphabetic order)

A

Martin Asbury

Ken Allen

Douglas Adamson

Terry Adlam

B

Ivor Beddoes	Chesley Bonestell	Les Bowie	Steven Begg
Spencer Bagdatopoulus	Irving Block	Bill Brace	Steven Burg
Bob Bell	Hans Barthalowski	Mannix Bennett	Mario Bava
....... ........ Humphrey Bangham	Brian Bishop

C

Byron Crabbe	Cliff Culley	Jack Cosgrove	Bob Cuff
Peter Chiang	Ray Caple	Dan Curry	Joy Cuff
.......... James Cameron	Eric Critchley

D

Walter Percy Day	Jan Domela	Norman Dawn	Jim Danforth
Tim Donahue	Syd Dutton	John DeCuir	Paul Detlefsen
.Max Devegas	.Geoffrey Dickinson	.	.

E

Ferdinand P. Earle	Peter Ellenshaw	Harrison Ellenshaw	Chris Evans
Brian Evans

F

Doug Ferris	Brian Flora	Jim Fetherolf	Fitch Fulton
Howard Fisher	.	.	.

G

Rocco Gioffre	Caroleen Green	Constantine "Deno" Ganakes	Tom Gilleon
Gonzalo Gonzalo	Paul Grimm	Germen Gelpí	.Ian Glassbrook

H

Ralph Hammeras	Jenna Holman	Pony Horton	Walter L. Hall
Henri Hillinick	Clyde Hill	. Joy Hanser	.

I

J

Sean Joyce

Albert Jullion

Judy Jordan

K

Emile Kosa JR	Ray Kellogg	Richard Kilroy	Janet Kusnick
Otto Keichle	Bob Kayganich	.	.

L

Mario Larrinaga	Lee LeBlanc	Louis Lichtenfield	Hans Ledeboer
Gerald Larn	Michael Lloyd	Paul Lasaine	Rusell Lawson
Juan Larrinaga	Liz Lettmas	James Liles	Dwigth S. Land

M

Alan Maley	David Mattingly	Ralph MQuarrie	Derek Meddings
Ken Marschall	Michele Moen	Bill Mather	Julian Martin
Joseph Musso	Ron Miller	Peter Melrose	Von Muldorfer
Louis Mcmanus	Steve Mitchell

N

Warren Newcombe

Joseph Natanson

O

Willis O´Brien

Frank Ordaz

P

Mike Pangrazio

Andrew Probert

Ralph Pappier

Lewis Physioc

Q

R

Emilio Ruiz del Rio	Jack Rabin	Rick Rische	Edward G. Rogers
......... Candelario Rivas

S

Jack Shaw	Fred Sersen	Jessie Silver	Paul Swendsen
Charles Stoneham	Robert Stromberg	Mark Sullivan	David Stipes
Ettore Serbaroli	Robert Scifo	Cliff Silsby	Jiri Stamfest
Enrique Salvá	Albert Maxwell Simpson	Pierre Schildneck	Hubert Von Seidlein
Joan Suttie	George Samuels

T

JP Trevor	Leigh Took	Conrad Tritschler	Lucy Tanashian
Bud Thackery	.	.	.

U

Yusei Uesugi

Arturo Uranga

V

Richard Vander Wende

Jean-Marie Vives

W

Albert Whitlock	Harry Walton	Mike Wassel	Mark Whitlock
Scotty Welborne

X

Y

Matthew Yuricich

Z

MATTE CAMERA:

James Aupperle

Craig Barron

Martin Body

Mark Davis

John Grant

Neil Krepela

Roy Seawright

Clarence Slifer

Bill Taylor

Matte painting Teams:
According to Frank Van der Veer, ASC article, written at "The ASC Treasury of Visual Effects", during the golden age of Hollywood there were matte artists in every studio."
Fox , with Fred Sersen at head, led the field in hiring up to a dozen artists at once, including, Emile Kosa Jr., Cliff Silsby, Max DeVegas, Ralph Hammeras, Scotty Welborne, Fitch Fulton, Russ Lawson,
Lee Leblanc, and Von Muldorfer.
At MGM were Warren Newcombe, Henri Hillinck, Howard Fisher and Otto Keichle.
Paramount employed Jan Domela.
At Warner Bross were Chesley Bonestell, Paul Detlefsen, Mario Larrinaga, Jack Shaw, Clyde Hill, and Lou Lichtenfield.
Columbia had Hans Barthalowski, and Jack Larrinaga."

David O´Selznick Matte Department in 1947.
Left to right (front row) machinist Oscar Jarosch, visual effects cameraman Clarence Slifer,
his assistant Harold Griggs, matte artist Hans Ledeboer; (back row) matte artist Jack Shaw and
Spencer Bagdatopoulus, and camera assistant Owen Marsh.

Disney Matte Department during "The Black Hole" 1979
From left to right: David Mattingly, Harrison Ellenshaw, Don Henry (projectionist),
Deno Ganakas and Ed Sekac (cameraman)

I.L.M. Matte Department during "The Empire Strikes Back" 1980.
From left to right: Mike Pangrazio, Craig Barron (cameraman) , Ralph McQuarrie,
Harrison Ellenshaw (seated at front) and Neil Krelepa (cameraman)

Some books where you can find matte painting information and pictures, or related to matte artists.

THE INVISIBLE ART. The legends of Movie Matte Paintings. By Craig Barron and Mark Cotta Vaz. So far the most complete book about matte paintings.	ELLENSHAW UNDER GLASS. Going For the matte for Disney. By Peter Ellenshaw	THE ART OF CHESLEY BONESTELL. By Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant III	THE GARDEN WITHIN.The art of Peter Ellenshaw.
EMIL KOSA JR.	THE ART OF STAR WARS :
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