This some matte paintings was done quickly, very quickly in the very last days of postproduction for episode 411 Series 4 “The baby troll”. Story is based on the Icelandic fairy tails. That´s why Magnus was so picky to images of mountains. It suppose to have “authentic icelandic look”. But the real set objects which where already build in a studio has completely different style.

So that the challenge was to paint something in between blue objects and icelandic mountains

and make the connection of live and background images more or less common

Sky backdrop for fly-through animation.

Multi-layered clouds for animation

Sample below shows such handmade «cloud» as it looks against background and against green screen.

Morning sky background for 3D rendering

Close-up of morning sky background above

Although Paris background is based on 3D model rendering it is completely re-painted and some parts of it are hand-painted.  The width of the background is 12 000+ pixels. This allowed our team to use it for every possible scene in the Lazy Town ™ stories in HD format.

Paris background (panorama)

The background above for Lazy Town ™ episodes is based on original sketch by Snorri Freyr Hilmarsson. Matte painting had been started by Oli Dan and finished by me.

Panorama’s details

Clouds are hand painted with hand made “cloud” brushes

Paris under clouds (hand painted)

Working screen grab (see green mask?)

Paris painter

Sportacus in Paris

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