About the Author

g0002.tif David B. Mattingly lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, right across the Hudson River from New York City. He teaches matte painting at the School of Visual Arts and at Pratt Institute. He has worked on major motion pictures and TV miniseries for the last 30 years, including The Black Hole (1979), Tron (1982), Dick Tracy (1990), The Stand (1994), I, Robot (2004), and A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008). He has contributed matte shots and special effects to hundreds of commercial projects.

David worked at Walt Disney Studios for seven years in the 1980s and became head of the matte department in 1984. He moved to New York City ...

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