P.1 matte painting

A matte painting is a painted presentation of a landscape, set or distant location that allows filmakers to create illusion of an environment that is nonexistent in real life or would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build or visit.
At its best, depending on the skil levels of the artists and the tehnician, the effct is 'seamless' and creates environments that would otherwise be impossible to film.

Traditionally, matte paintings were made by artist using paints or pastels on large sheets of glass integrating with the live-action footage.
By the mid-1980's, advancements in computer graphics programs alowed matte painters to work in the digital realm.
throughout the 1990's, traditional matte paintings were still in use, but more often in conjuction with digital compositing. die hard 2: die harder 1990

By the end of the decade, the time of hamd-paimted matte paintings use drawing to a close, although as late as 1997 same traditional paintings were still being made.
Paint has now been superseded by digital images created using photo references, 3-D models, and drawing tablets.

Matte painters combine their digitally matte painted textures within comouter-generated 3-D environments, allowing for 3-D camera movement.

Lighting algorithms used to simulate lighting sources expanded im scope in 1995.

1930 :
the view of scull island in king kong 1993
the army bsrracks in all quiet on the western front 1930
count draculas cadtle exteriors in dracula 1931 and some other scenes

1970
the rooftops of portobella road in bedknobs and broomsticks 1971
view of a destroyed los angeles in earthquake 1974
the city railway line in the sting 1973

1980
the view of the oco tower in robocop 1987
the batty and deckard chase scene in blafe runner 1982
the view of thebcrashed space dhip in the thing 1982