Kaustav Sinha - Digital Matte Painter

An Interview with FREDERIC ST-ARNAUD (Senior Digital Matte-Painter, RodeoFX)!

2009-09-12T03:52:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,

It's been a while since, I've updated my blog! The person, who was most inspirational, for my interest towards the beautiful art of Digital Matte-Painting, was Frederic St-Arnaud; a Senior Digital Matte-Painter, in the world-renowned VFX Matte-Painting studio, RodeoFX!

Frederic is a Visual Effects Artist, with 12 years of experience, focusing on high-end photo-realistic Digital Matte-Painting, Set Extension, Concept Art and Art Direction in the film industry. He has contributed to more than 25 feature films, dozens of commercials for television and a few TV series. He is working for different Visual Effects companies, as a Matte-Painter, Concept Artist and sometimes, as an Art Director or Teacher.

Frederic has a list of blockbuster film credits under his belt, including : "Terminator Salvation" (T4: Salvation/ Terminator 4), "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Death Race", "Babel", "Silent Hill", "Sin City", "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow", "Once Upon a Time in Mexico", Spy kids 2 & 3 and "The Golden Compass" (which won the "Best Visual Effects" Academy Awards/OSCAR, in 2008)!

Frederic has won numerous honors and awards, including : the endorsement for the coverpage of the book "d'artiste - Matte Painting 2" (Ballistic Publishing) and the endorsement for the coverpage of the book "Digital Art Master volume 2" (DAM II)!

Having been the Jury Member of the Unofficial Matte-Painting Challenges on CGSociety.org/CGTalk.com in the past, we are honored to have Frederic back, as one of the honorable Judges, for the Official Monthly "CGTantra Digital Matte Painting Challenges" on CGTantra.com!

I got the lifetime opportunity, to be able to interview the legendary, Frederic St-Arnaud, on January 13th, 2009! Kindly, click here to read this exclusive interview on CGTantra!

A Mountain Scene

2009-03-08T03:23:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,
Here is a digital matte painting of a mountain scene!

Software used : Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended

I hope all of you will like it! Comments & critiques are heartily welcome!

Thanks,
Kaustav

Journey To The Castle Island

2009-03-08T03:20:00.001-07:00

Hi Everyone,
Here is a digital matte painting, titled "Journey To The Castle Island"!

Software used : Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended

I hope all of you will like it! Comments & critiques are heartily welcome!

Thanks,
Kaustav

The Lighthouse

2009-03-08T03:06:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,
Here is a digital matte painting, titled "The Lighthouse"!

Software used : Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended

I hope all of you will like it! Comments & critiques are heartily welcome!

Thanks,
Kaustav

Welcome to my blog!

2009-03-07T23:56:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone,
My name is Kaustav Sinha. I'm from Kolkata, India.

I'm a Digital Matte Painter. I always get mesmerized whenever I see any digital matte painting in movies! It has always been my aim to create high quality photo-real digital matte paintings for movies, games, television etc, for the great audience, and I'm always striving hard to achieve this goal!

Artists who inspires me are Frederic St-Arnaud, Alp Altiner, Chris Stoski, Dylan Cole, David Luong, Tiberius Viris, Maciej Kuciara, Philip Straub and lots of other artists...!!!

My dream is to work in the near future in VFX companies like the ILM, RodeoFX, Pixar, DreamWorks, Weta Digital, Framestore CFC and others..., as a Digital Matte Painter!!!

In an effort to make the beautiful art of Digital Matte Painting more popular, CGTantra (India's # 1 online CG community portal) has organized the monthly CGTantra Digital Matte Painting Challenges! I'm the Moderator of these challenges!

In this blog, I'm going to post my Digital Matte Paintings and all other related stuffs! I hope that, all of you will like my blog!

Thank you very much for visiting my blog!