Matte Painting has the ability to produce an image, either by painting or photo manipulating, working with traditional mediums or digitally, with the intent of creating and image, animation or set extension for movie making purposes where the building or travel to a given location would be impractical due to financial reasons, time schedule, or physical possibilities.

A Matte Painting is composed of a base plate, which can be a photograph or moving footage, and composited images or animations on top of it.
Usually for better integration and ease, base plate moving footages are taken with a still camera, although nowadays with the help of camera tracking software, an image or any other element can be put over the base plate and move with it has it was part of it.Since Matte Paintings intention is to trick the viewer into believing he is seeing real things, a Matte Painting has to be the closer to reality has possible.

Matte paintings are typically for use in films and video games to make scenes and landscapes that would otherwise be impossible or expensive to create as a film set. We’d like to present you with some master matte painters and their stunning art pieces for your admiration and inspiration.

Spaceships Skycity Painting by MartaNael

The Lair – matte painting – by rblokker

Under Dream Skies by infernall

London Rooftops by Raphael-Lacoste

Mountains by tiger1313

The Sunken Village by ChristianGerth

Skyrim Fantasy Ruins by AlexRuizArt

Environment: Deadwood by inetgrafx

under construction.. matte exp by uAe-Designer

S3 XII – SteamPunk IceCream by aiiven

And The Giant Awoke – Selfpor. by GiuseppeParisi

Venetian Dream by bdbros

time to feed the horses by Griffinfly

Underneath by elreviae

Sunset on Ba by lon Raphael-Lacoste

Castle matte painting by rebekahlynn

Sailing over the beams by Shue13

Skyhigh by tigaer

The last chance by Skema9

Song of Storms by kire1987

Massive destruction by Dekus

The Day After The End v2 by samborek

When I woke up last night… by memod

Force of Nature by priteeboy

The Observer by Camille-Besneville

The Lost Kingdom by Eireen

Messiah Valley by Grimdar

Lake Town – The Hobbit by NateHallinanArt

Homeworld Ordalla by z-design

Entering in New Hell by DesignSpartan

Black House by =RoxRio

Don”t call me atm – Painting by fox-orian

Tidal by Homeboy-sparten

The Kingdom of the High Lords by AnthonyDevine

Caution by ThibaultFischer

I Belong Here by Baro

Forgotten Places by DjMart

Jaguar Moon by Brukhar

Pietus by Nameless-Designer

Next Generation of New York by Stefan1502

Longing by Zerj19

Lost by kerembeyit

Raving Rabbids Travel In Time by jermilex

The Siphon by fmacmanus

seconds before disaster by rue-different

The forest pond by =ForestGirl

Lost Paradise – Final Step by NatMonney

.ancient.tree. by noah-kh

Sky Driving by Aeoll

Lilikoi by Not1me

The forgotten land by night-fate

Hellsing- No Place Like London by Kuro-neko-chan

TITANIC by osorioartist

The Dragon Tamer by deligaris

Ebitarnor by taenaron

2098 by bloodyslash

Gliese 581 g by =KarimFakhoury

Castle in the mountains by translucid

Megan by DanHowardArt

By the gates of Usher by =TRiGGER80

Hidden City by =AndyGarcia666