D’Artiste: Matte Painting is the authoritative book dedicated to showcasing and teaching the skills behind the art of digital matte painting. Leading Hollywood matte painters Alp Altiner, Dylan Cole and Chris Stoski take readers through the matte painting techniques used to create breathtaking, photo-realistic sets and backdrops for film, television and video games.

Each master artist presents his unique approaches through a series of step-by-step tutorials from concept to final painting. D’Artiste: Matte Painting dedicates a section to each master artist, including a personal gallery, biography, up to 28 pages of tutorial content each and an invited artist gallery featuring 56 matte paintings from talented digital artists worldwide.

D’Artiste: Matte Painting features three leading Hollywood digital matte painters: Alp Altiner, Dylan Cole and Chris Stoski.

Ballistic Publishing, paperback with slipcase, 192 pages, published January 2006

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