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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 bring readers through the matte painting techniques used to create breathtaking, photo-realistic sets and backdrops for film, television and video games.

Matte Painting work for sequences in ‘Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith' feature prominently, as does an impressive painting for the ‘Lord of the Rings' trilogy.

Each master artist presents their 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.

Step-by-step techniques
d'artiste Matte Painting features step-by-step tutorials from each master artist from concept to final painting. Tutorials include:

• Tower of London
• Desert City
• Lava City
• Gothic Cathedral
• Planet-Scape
• Skies
• Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - Coruscant
• Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - Jedi Temple
• Golden Gate


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The d'artiste series
The d'artiste imprint (pronounced dah-tee-st) means both "of the artist" and "digital artist". Each d'artiste title features step-by-step tutorials presented by the master artists. In addition to these master class tutorials, d'artiste also showcases galleries of work from the artists and the community at large. This unique mix of content gives the reader a comprehensive and personal insight into the master artists, their approaches, techniques, influences and works.

d'artiste: Matte Painting showcases the techniques of each artist working in their respective software environments and challenges readers to apply these concepts to any software environment of choice. d'artiste: Matte Painting is the definitive guide to digital matte painting and is beneficial to any student or professional artist seeking to perfect skills in this niche craft.

Superior Quality

The Artists

Ballistic Publishing is renowned for its extraordinarily high quality publications. Each published image is hand-tweaked and color-corrected to ensure that the transfer from the computer monitor to print is accurate and outstanding in quality. d'artiste books are uniquely presented in a slipcase, to ensure protection while being a distinctive showcase title.

Dylan Cole
Dylan Cole is a leading matte painter and concept artist specializing in work for film, television, and video games. Graduating with a degree in fine art from UCLA, Dylan Cole has worked with Illusion Arts, Rhythm & Hues and Weta Digital. His work can be seen in ‘Time Machine', ‘Daredevil', ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King', ‘The Chronicles of Riddick', ‘The Ring 2', ‘The Aviator', ‘I, Robot', ‘Van Helsing', ‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' and ‘The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe'.

Spectacular Digital
Matte Painting Galleries
Complementing each artist's master class tutorials are numerous digital matte paintings personally selected by the authors for critique and commentary. These works are invited by the respective authors or submitted by the community, making the d'artiste series a unique blend of tutorial and artistic content.

Chris Stoski
Chris Stoski graduated from the School of Architecture at Washington State University with a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture. As a Matte Painter and Art Director, Chris Stoski has worked with such distinguished companies as Michael Sechman & Associates, Matte World Digital and Industrial Light & Magic. His work is featured in films such as ‘The Last Samurai', ‘The Ring', ‘Jurassic Park III', ‘Catwoman', and ‘Star Wars: Episode III – The Revenge of the Sith'.

Alp Altiner
Alp Altiner's career as an artist has led him to work at such preeminent companies such as Todd McFarlane, Image Comics, Top Cow Productions, Marvel, DC Comics, Digital Domain, Morgan Creek, Illusion Arts, Hydraulx and Engine Room. Alp is currently a freelance visual effects and visual development artist specializing in concept art, matte painting and 3D modeling, texturing and lighting work for film, television and video games. Alp Altiner's work is seen in ‘The Exorcist', ‘Van Helsing', ‘The Day After Tomorrow', ‘The Notebook', a NASCAR TV Spot, Crystal Geiser, a Tori Amos music video, and ‘BloodRayne II'.