Matte World Digital provided several
establishing shots using miniatures, matte paintings and digital
compositing techniques to create the 1930's world that The
Shadow inhabits.
Miniature
foreground and tent photographed with blue screen for
the middle layer of a multi-element composite.
The completed shot as it appears in the film with Tulku's palace and Alec Baldwin walking into frame.
Chief Matte Artist, Chris Evans, uses his brush to add gold
leaf detail to the Tulku miniature photographed in the MWD parking
lot.
The
live-action plate of peasants tending a poppy field was photographed
on location in Owen's Valley.
The final composite establishing Cranston's palace with Himalayan Mountains.
