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dylancole · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 9:35 am

Hello all,

It has been a while since I posted here. I have added my ROTK work to my site. Also some new sketches and concept stuff.
Check it out here-
www.dylancolestudio.com

-Dylan
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ChenZan · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 9:45 am

holy crap! you stuff is friggin down right sexy. i love it.

Mitsui · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 9:51 am

totally amazing

del3030 · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 10:25 am

nice stuff
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Alen · member Member # Joined: 27 Oct 1999 Posts: 80

wow, excellent work... excellent resume as well Razz

jr · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 4:17 pm

oh man, sooo good! so awesome!
i want to do what you do! please keep posting!!!!!!
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Sumaleth · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 4:32 pm

Not wanting to sound like Randy Jackson, but I have to give you your props: YEAH! YEAH!
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DJorgensen · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 8:03 pm

Holy Crap!
That is amazing work!!
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Joe84 · member Member # Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 262

wow you have this excellent talent to capture the atmosphere of whatever ur visualising Shocked

Christian + · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 4:25 am

Fantastic materpieces man! It leaves me wordless.
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allpetter · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 4:51 am

I wonder,
Did you use any photo references in the actual overpaint?
meaning, other photos then the photoplate?

I pretty much know you didn't.
But one can't deny felling abit owned here.

Either way.
This is fantastic.
And you simply own!
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Awetopsy · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 5:56 am

.... wow...

Sometimes an artists skill makes me totally jealous... you just did.. Razz

love it.

Max · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 8:11 am

wow...impressive!!...just wonderful
It must have been a pleassure to work for The Lord of the Rings.

kengi · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 10:00 am

holly crap... thats fantastic.

one question: what where the resolutions of this matte paintings? i've read somewhere that it was 8k. is it true?

dylancole · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 10:07 am

Thank you for the very nice welcome. I really appreciate it.,

Kengi- Most of the paintings are 4k so that the detail compresses nicely at 2k. Some of them are 8k or even 12k like the big Pelennor fields panoramas.

allpetter-Yes I did use photo reference, otherwise the film would never have been finished! 90% of matte painters use photo reference, the other 10% are liars. It is what you do with the photo reference that counts.

Dylan
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starglider2 · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 4:05 pm

WTF ?! u did matte paints for LOTR ??? I wish i was part of the team..If i could only clean the toilets i would have been happy..How much time and what techniques did it take you to do these LOTR mattes ???

I would guess...1 week of 8 hours painting per day for each matte ?
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desmozgenes · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 1:21 pm

great d00d. I already saw your site once.. dunno maybe I ran into it here.. maybe not. your stuff is l33t anyway.
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Summer Pudding · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 1:30 pm

Damn! Thanks for sharing these with us man.

Pud'

Alen · member Member # Joined: 27 Oct 1999 Posts: 80

I dunno about the rest of you, but I can't help feeling somewhat star struck... the LOTR trilogy is the most visually astounding piece of work I've seen yet.

Are you working on any movies right now? (any that you're allowed to mention?)

Spooky · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 10:47 pm

Since seeing the incredible work of the Ellenshaw's and their cohorts, I've always had a great love for Matte Paintings. I'm sure you're aware of the nice book by Mark Cotta Vaz (which I have yet to look at).

As well the elder Ellenshaw has a very nice book I picked up from Bud Plant that shows some of his work with Gardens and Landscapes on his own. I'd like to pick up the new book on his career as well.

Very nice work and consider yourself lucky to have been part of the many projects you have worked on. I know there's many on this board alone who would kill for a job on some of those films!

Great stuff and thanks for sharing! Looking forward to more.

Chad Kerychuk
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The Real Mark · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 11:49 pm

Good work. Adding to bookmarks

andreasrocha · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:53 am

Dylan...your artwork is really breathtaking. Thank-you for contributing with your talent to one of the most enjoyable cinema experiences ever...

Kwiix · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:47 pm

Looks like I'll be seeing a lot of your work this summer:

dylancole · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:03 pm

Thanks again for the nice comments.

starglider2-As far as how long each took...some of those were done in only about a day and a half, while others took about a week. Then there were a lot of small revisions to make before everyone was happy. Most of the time we were working on the main paint build of a painting while touching up several others. Our days were also broken up with meetings and dailies, so it was rare to actually be painting the whole day.

alen-As to what I am working on now, I am working on I, Robot and a couple shots for a small romantic comedy. I will soon be vfx art director on the Ring 2.

Spooky-Yes, the Ellenshaws rock. They are both fantastic and really nice people who are enthusiastic about their work. If you haven't checked out Invisible Art, go get a copy right now. It is breath-taking. My prized possession.
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Frost · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:45 am

This is all awesome stuff Dylan! Really impressive! Keep up the great work, and we'll keep going to see it at the cinema. =)

ColdKodiak · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:59 pm

Awsome

Inspiring stuff. Good to know your work will be in most of the movies I'm looking forward to this summer Smile

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skullmonkeys · member Member # Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 183

A day and a half for some of them? Wow.
Were any of them projected onto a 3d geometry?
How were lava and smoke animated from a painting?

Great matte paintings.

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seth1 · member Member # Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 534

Good stuff man.. I was just woundering what matte painting means is liek something you do digital or what is it? You have some amazing work to i really loved the lord or the rings return of the king paintings those are very well done...

Nausicaa · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 7:36 am

Very nice work. ---->right to the bookmarks.

As soon as our movie comes out (september 20th)
I will post some stuff too.
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