The matte shot

One of my favorite non-movie bloggers, David Thompson, has a weekly, more or less, "Friday Ephemera" post in which he links to stuff that's not exactly newsworthy, but interesting or noteworthy. A lot of Youtube videos, but also things like blog posts with lots of photos of the way things were in the past.

This week, one of the links was to the matte shot, from a blog looking at the use of matte painting technology in the movies, and how it makes good background shots. There aren't many posts on the blog, but this one has a ton of interesting photos.