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Matte Painter

Design & Media

Matte painters create photorealistic digital environments and environment extensions that replace or augment what could not be filmed on location — aerial cityscapes, alien landscapes, period-accurate historical settings, and fantasy worlds. Working from concept art and live-action plates, they photobash, digitally paint, and project 2.5D multi-plane matte paintings onto geometry in Nuke or Maya, then animate parallax and camera moves so the extension is indistinguishable from a real set. In India, the role is concentrated at studios serving global streaming productions: DNEG India (Mumbai/Bengaluru/Chennai — Oscar-winning work on Dune, Oppenheimer), MPC Bangalore (The Lion King, War for the Planet of the Apes), Framestore Mumbai (Paddington, Black Widow), Red Chillies VFX (SRK's studio — Jawan, Brahmastra), and Method Studios India, with growing demand from Netflix India originals, Amazon Prime India, and Disney+ Hotstar. Entry requires a portfolio of painted environments that can survive a production comp, not just a standalone render.

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