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The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting
Since the birth of cinema, movie-makers have created stunning special effects by combining still "matte" paintings with live-action film. Matte painting techniques were closely guarded secrets that never left the studio lot. In this unprecedented retrospective, Mark Cotta Vaz and Craig Barron reveal the history of a visual effect that has defined movies as we kno...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
August 1st 2002
by Chronicle Books
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By Glenn Dixon • February 28, 2003
Anybody who tells you that 14 hours is a lot of television is either debating whether he can make it through the last episode of "Berlin Alexanderplatz" or living without TiVo. My first-generation video recorder can cram nearly all of Fassbinder's magnum opus into its hard drive thanks to an ingenious trade-off between foreground and background: Th...more
Arts & Entertainment : Book Review
Deep Background
By Glenn Dixon • February 28, 2003
Anybody who tells you that 14 hours is a lot of television is either debating whether he can make it through the last episode of "Berlin Alexanderplatz" or living without TiVo. My first-generation video recorder can cram nearly all of Fassbinder's magnum opus into its hard drive thanks to an ingenious trade-off between foreground and background: Th...more
I love this book, I read it straight through and it has all the details, history, and connections that have made matte painting what it is today. It is also filled with great photos of paintings in different stages, and my favorites are of the artists painting them.
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Mark Cotta Vaz is the author of over twenty-one books, including four New York Times bestsellers. His recent works include Mythic Vision: The Making of Eragon, The Spirit: The Movie Visual Companion, and the biography Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.
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