Dramatic coastal landscape with steep green cliffs, dark storm clouds and ocean waves breaking on a dark beach
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Featured Projects

A gallery of key matte-painting environments, from coastal bays and mountain fortresses to snowbound cliffs and underground bunkers.

Selected work

Project gallery

Each project below is developed as a digital environment image, with supporting frames that document how the piece was built up layer by layer.

Rendered coastal bay at dusk with ships anchored near a sandy beach, huts, hills and palm trees in warm orange light

The Bay

Detailed views of a coastal environment: anchored ships, a sandy shoreline and the surrounding terrain handled with layered atmosphere and warm evening light.

  • Environment
  • Coast
  • Final render
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Digitally rendered mountain peaks with dense greenery shrouded in mist at sunrise, warm golden light contrasting with cool shadows

The Great Wall

Documentation of wall scenes running along misty, forested mountain ridges, with atmospheric perspective used to push the structure back into the landscape.

  • Landscape
  • Architecture
  • Atmosphere
Artist references
Rendered rocky green mountain ridge under a flat grey sky in muted earthy tones

The Bunker

A behind-the-scenes look at the bunker piece, showing the working stages from early blockouts through to the finished lighting and texture pass.

  • Behind the scenes
  • Process
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Snow-covered cliff edge and glacier landscape in cold blue tones, misty and desolate

The Frozen Cliff

Camera projection tests for the frozen cliff environment, exploring how projected plate geometry and painted light interact across a cold, misty landscape.

  • Camera projection
  • Test
  • Ice
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Frame detail

Stills from the gallery

Selected stills pulled from the finished environments, chosen to show how sky, terrain and light are treated from wide establishing view down to foreground detail.

Aerial view above a dense cloud layer with bright sunlight breaking through at the horizon in gold and blue tones
Cloud and light study
Misty gorge with tall rocky cliffs and a sailing ship on calm water, green foliage in the foreground
Gorge with ship
Aerial view of a dense snowy city skyline with skyscrapers dusted in snow in grey and white tones
Snowy skyline

Keep following the work

Process notes and technical write-ups are published on the blog, including studies and camera projection tests. A curated list of VFX artists and their studios is available under Artists.