This is one of the most incredible examples of digital painting that I've ever seen. It's a panorama of Damen Station in Chicago by Bert Monroy, who specializes in photo realistic digital art. There are no photographic or 3D elements in it whatsoever; Bert did it all with Photoshop and Illustrator. The image above is too small to even begin doing it justice so click here to see a larger image and read an overview that explains how it was created.

My heads hurts just thinking about attempting something like this.

I'm continuing to slowly gear up to begin work on Bear Town again in the new year and thinking about all of the different elements involved, including matte painting (that's how I stumbled across the painting above). I haven't attempted any matte painting for a long time so to get my hands dirty I am tackling a shot that requires mixing 2D and 3D elements to create a virtual set. Nothing nearly as complex as Bert's work, but I thought it would be fun to make it the subject of a little tutorial which should appear here in the next day or so.

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