08/02 - Concept artist, Matte Painting and Artist

Although Concept Artist, Matte Painting, and Artist seems alike its entirely three different stuff. Concept Artist and Matte painting are in the Film Industry while Artist is basically an artist that portrays his/her emotion into their art. Here define what is actually meant by Concept Artist and Matte Painter.

• Concept Artist is the designer who visualizes & creates art for characters, creatures, vehicles, environments, and other creative assets. They give a rough idea for modelers and animator to craete the end product. A good understanding of the fundamentals in art is needed to excel in it.

          Here are some examples of artists' thumbnail of ideas. 

 Hovering airships by David Revoy

Ishtar environment by David Revoy

• Matte Painter creates virtual backgrounds used to either replace or enhance live-action photographed plates. The artist works with stills taken from live action photography, digital still photography, rendered CG elements and digital paint to create believable ‘environments’ that are seamlessly integrated into the film by compositing artists. Matte painting now tends to come under the umbrella of environment work , completed in the larger VFX companies by an environment team/department. However, in smaller VFX houses, many artists may contribute to all the different sections of the VFX pipeline. The traditional painter used to paint on glass, however, each new scene needed a new painting. So artists had to clean the glass in order to paint a new one. How frustrated was that? Here is an example:

Reference:
https://conceptartempire.com/what-is-concept-artist/
http://creativeskillset.org/job_roles/4277_matte_painter