Special Effects The History and Technique by Richard Rickett

This book is by far one of the best books I have read. I discovered it over the summer in the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne and just fell in love with. The knowledge it shares on the technical aspects of traditional Matte Painting the revoloution of technology and how this influence and changed the scene of Matte Painters who then needed to be more computer technicians rather than artists, and then the introduction of 3D animation and how that affected Matte Painting. It's quite different to The invisible Art of Matte Painting because it focuses much more on the specifics in a more condensed fashion as it's only covered over a few chapters. I think this book would be really good to paraphrase in the historical chapter of my dissertation.