Niels Valentin Dal
Digital Matte Painting, Backdrops, Production Illustration.




Zozo


The Swedish director, Josef Fares, made this movies about Zozo from Lebanon, trying to escape the civil war in the late 1980'ies. I did a lot of
work for this film, but as the editing went on, the mount of VFX changed and also the character of it. So it ended up being just 2 or 3
matte paintings for me.


One of the mattes. Bayreuth as it would have been during the civil war. Zozo is walking past us as the camera travels with him. I partly painted
it out of focus, since the plate was out of focus, too. It was painted and animated in 3 layers. Got away with the lack of change in perspective
because of the distance between Zozo and the nearest houses. I also added 2D smoke elements and a lonely CGI truck crossing the bridge in the middle.

(courtesy of Memfis Film)


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