Matte Paintings
Landscapes, mood images & matte paintings for the computer game "Starfield"
AI-Assisted Matte Painting
To streamline the creation of numerous mood images and environment matte paintings for Starfield, we developed a custom AI-assisted toolchain. This allowed us to generate images quickly and efficiently while responding precisely to art direction and critical feedback. Using basic sketches and text prompts as inputs, the tool produces highly detailed environment roughs, which we
can further refine manually. Additionally, it generates depth maps alongside the beauty pass, enabling immediate 2.5D integration. This makes the environments ready for dynamic camera movements, adding even more flexibility to the production process.
Even with simple text descriptions and very rudimentary 3D geometry as inputs, the tool delivers highly useful results.
By expanding on the desired scene descriptions and input sketches, we were able to cost-effectively deliver matte paintings and final imagery perfectly suited for our use case:
OUR WORK
Concept-, Tool- & Design-Development
2.5D Modeling of environments
final Mood images, Matte Paintings & Compositing
CREDITS
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Lead Developers: Todd Howard, Emil Pagliarulo, Istvan Pely, Matt Carofano
Composer: Inon Zur
Release Date: September 6, 2023
Platforms: Windows, Xbox Series
Game Engine: Creation Engine 2
Genre: Action role-playing game
Theme: Science fiction