Matte Painting: Star Wars Opening Night in London

Digital Insanity crafted some amazing projections for the opening of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS in London. It was an incredible event - and I jumped on board for some of the matte painting of the projection backgrounds for the main stage.

You can see the artwork in the background here:

Matte Painting - Kingsman: The Secret Service Premiere Projection Show

Worked with the fantastic team at Atomic Arts on the premiere projection show for Kingsman: The Secret Service. The whole front of the Odeon cinema in Leicester Square was lit up for the red carpet event, and live concert by Take That.

The film's great fun.  I worked on the matte paintings and background design of the projections, and created texture files for animation.

Matte painting is strikingly similar to theatre backdrop painting for me, just it's all digital. (Much less mess, which is nice, and you swap out the buckets and brushes for a wacom pen.)
Watch the show live here.

Theatre Projection Design: The 12 Trials of Hercules

The 12 Trials Of Hercules - projection design at the Pantheon, Greece from Konstantinos Koutsoliotas on Vimeo.

The 12 Trials of Hercules
Pantheon Theatre
Athens, Greese

Projection Animation by Melancholy Star
Collaboration with Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, Janet Lennon
Role: Shadow play design and matte painting

Matte Painting: The Gambler

Image: Atomic Arts, Paramount Pictures copyright 2014

Matte Painting: For The Gambler (2014), I worked on several shots, transforming LA backgrounds, such as this scene in the rain.

You can see the trailer here.

Production Design/Matte Painting: In Space - A Zero-G Shave

'Shaving in space can be... challenging. Maintaining fabulous facial hair shouldn't be this hard.'
This video was a quick pitch for a shaving company.

The background is a matte painting of mine.
We put the piece together over a weekend, shot in our flat on a 5D.

Performance: Theo Albanis
Direction, VFX: Konstantinos Koutsoliotas
Matte Painting: Elizabeth E. Schuch
Sound Effect: daveincamas

(c) 2014 Melancholy Star, London