Matte Paintings and Set Designs for the Film
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Awarded with the Oscar for Best Production Design in 2015
Here you can find some interviews about the making of these works:
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In this picture I had to paint all the windows and put in the background.
For this one I had to paint the hotel, which is not a miniature, and the background. I had been given few photos of single elements and the hotel had to be fully digitally rebuilt following the same architecture of the old version. A 3D model for the hotel was created and illuminated by Nicolas Pellkofer, then i used the blending modes in Photoshop to blend it with the painting and give it a more realistic look.
The whole wall (including the windows) is a painting.
The only thing that wasn't painted in this picture was the character :D
I had been given a picture of the miniature and i had to replace the background and paint all the lights and the illuminated windows.
In this frame i had to paint the wall on the right side.
For this picture I had to paint all the towers and the road. Sorry for the bad quality! hopefully i'll be able to show a better picture soon.
Here i had to paint and replace a big part of the background wall.
In this one the whole wall had to be painted.
Here i painted the whole reflection, except for the bike and the actor.
In this picture Nicolas Pellkofer created a 3D model for the wall and i painted on top of it as well as the ground.
In this frame the castle, the hills and the snow are painted.
For this picture i had to paint in the color of the carriages.
In this frame the building and the hill in the background are painted.