throughout the 1990s, traditional matte paintings were still in use, but more often in conjunction with digital compositing. "die hard 2" (1990) was the first film to use digitally composited live-action footage with a traditional glass matte painting that had been photographed and scanned into a computer. it was for the last scene, which took place on an airport runway. by the end of the decade, the time of hand-painted matte paintings was drawing to a close, although as late as 1997 some traditional paintings were still being made, notably chris evans’ painting of the rms carpathia rescue ship in james cameron’s "titanic".