Matte Painting Courses

Capture the look of classic anime backgrounds with concept artist and background painter Kenn Yap (Chroma Moma). In this Session, you’ll learn to combine the texture and character of real brushstrokes with the flexibility of Photoshop. Kenn will show you how to design a space, paint over printed line art, refine your scanned paintings digitally, and add detail using your own hand-painted assets. This workflow lets you balance traditional and digital techniques to suit your strengths, bringing a handmade quality to your backgrounds without needing to be an expert in traditional painting. This Session also includes a free materials guide in the first lesson, showing every tool that Kenn personally recommends! 

Acclaimed concept artist Pablo Dominguez is back at Learn Squared with a brand-new course, to share his process for building large, detailed environments. Under Pablo's guidance, you'll master the use of ZBrush to produce a range of high-quality environment concept art. Learn to create expansive city views, intricate assets, and fully animated scenes, all without relying on any third-party kitbashing. As a special bonus, by purchasing Environment Concept Art, you'll get Pablo's ZBrush Basics course for FREE! That means you'll learn everything from the absolute basics, all the way through advanced sculpting, rendering, and paintover techniques that Pablo uses in his daily professional work.

Industry legend Maxx Burman commands over a decade's worth of experience, having delivered iconic matte paintings for TV, film, and video games on projects such as Iron Man 3, Game of Thrones, Westworld, and DOZENS more. His journey has also seen him wear many hats including art director, game developer, educator, and co-founder of the now industry-standard Kitbash 3D. In this brand new course from Learn Squared, Maxx will teach you all of his advanced 3D matte painting techniques which will help you create stunning worlds with ease and efficiency.

Looking to add some dimension to your matte paintings? ILM and Axis Animation lead matte painter Steven Cormann will teach you to create cinematic environment shots, from scratch to final comp utilizing professional studio techniques. Whether you’re a 2D matte painter looking to learn more about 3D techniques, a 3D environment artist looking to learn more about matte painting, or an aspiring artist hungry to learn, this course will teach you the knowledge and skills required to make it in the industry.

Learn to create breathtaking matte paintings using the same techniques as industry legend Maxx Burman. After studying the compositional foundations of the medium, Maxx will show you his techniques for turning quick concept sketches into production-ready matte paintings with realistic perspective, lighting, and atmosphere. Whether you're an absolute beginner a or seasoned professional, there are a ton of simple, yet advanced techniques covered in this course to take your work to the next level.