The book will be interesting for beginners as well is for seasoned artists as it contains tips, exercises, and a depth of knowledge garnered from a lifetime in the industry. This book features hundreds of amazing illustrations as well as a great amount of information on how to best compose and use images to create the most powerful keyframes for the entertainment industry, whether it movies or animation or video games. The rules of basic composition from the book could be also applied to photography and digital work. Targeted towards landscape painters it will provide a great source of information about composition, color and shapes. Written by California impressionist Edgar Payne, this book is considered one of the must have items in your library. The last reprint of this book was back in 2005. I have been collecting art related books myself for a several years now and happy share my top 5 books I always recommend to any matte painter or environment artist looking to improve their composition. In the age of online learning it is very important to get a right educational material as part of self education.
