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The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting. Chronicle Books. ISBN 0-8118-4515-X. Peter Ellenshaw; Ellenshaw Under Glass – Going to the Matte for Disney; Richard Rickitt: Special Effects: The History and Technique. Billboard Books; 2nd edition, 2007; ISBN 0-8230-8408-6 (Chapter 5 covers the history and techniques of movie matte ...
Mattes are used in photography and special effects filmmaking to combine two or more image elements into a single, final image. Usually, mattes are used to combine a foreground image (e.g. actors on a set) with a background image (e.g. a scenic vista or a starfield with planets). In this case, the matte is the background painting.
During the late 1980s and early 1990, he was involved with the John Carpenter films Body Bags (1993), [18] They Live (1988), [19] Prince of Darkness (1987), and Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992), providing matte paintings, optical effects, stop motion animation, and second-unit direction.
William Samuel Cook "Peter" Ellenshaw (24 May 1913 – 12 February 2007) was an English matte designer and special effects creator who worked on many Disney features. Born in London , he moved to America in 1953.
Fritz Lang's film Metropolis was an early special effects spectacular, with innovative use of miniatures, matte paintings, the Schüfftan process, and complex compositing. An important innovation in special-effects photography was the development of the optical printer. Essentially, an optical printer is a projector aiming into a camera lens ...
Mark Cotta Vaz; Craig Barron: The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting. San Francisco, Cal.: Chronicle Books, 2002; ISBN 0-8118-3136-1; Peter Ellenshaw; Ellenshaw Under Glass – Going to the Matte for Disney Archived 2008-05-19 at the Wayback Machine; Richard Rickitt: Special Effects: The History and Technique.
Before becoming a special effects artist, Yuricich received a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where he also played football and joined Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. He received Miami's 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award for his career achievements and was a charter member of the Phi Kappa Tau Hall of Fame.
Mario Larrinaga was responsible for several matte paintings used in the special effects. The view of the sled dogs running across a frozen lake was a combination of live action with one of Larrinaga's paintings. He also painted the sabre-tooth tiger and its victims in ice, which was projected through stereopticon plates onto the set.