This highly detailed painting has a common feature used in many matte backgrounds: a patch of painted black on the bottom. This enabled special effects artists to splice in live-action footage with the stationary illustration. In this case, it was a scene of panicked pedestrians fleeing during an earthquake on an elevated walkway, with computer animated fires and smoke added into the background. An enlarged Blu-ray screen cap was added to complete the scene. The matte painting is on a Masonite board and is 34" x 54".
Seen in the scenes showing a city on Ventax II in the Star Trek: TNG season four episode #187 “Devil’s Due” which aired the week of February 4, 1991. The Enterprise responds to a distress signal from a science station on Ventax II, where the planet is in chaos over the return of a being who claims to be that culture's "devil". This Ventax II cityscape was created by masterful matte painter Syd Dutton. This highly detailed painting has a common feature used in many matte backgrounds: a patch of painted black on the bottom. This enabled special effects artists to splice in live-action footage with the stationary illustration. In this case, it was a scene of panicked pedestrians fleeing during an earthquake on an elevated walkway, with computer animated fires and smoke added into the background. An enlarged Blu-ray screen cap was added to complete the scene. The matte painting is on a Masonite board and is 34" x 54". Heritage Movie Posters Signature Internet Auction, Lot 31, Sunday November 24, 2019.
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