More Classic Matte Painting-based Special Effects
I can't get enough of pre-CGI special effects back stories, particularly those involving models and matte paintings. I have yet to find a really good book on building models for movies (the best documentaries I have seen have been extras on original trilogy Star Wars movie disks). But there are several good collections of great matte painting work, including at this blog called the Matte Shot. He writes few but very long posts usually dedicated to a particular artist. This one is part two of a series on Albert Whitlock. This guy was simply amazingly prolific and a great artist whose work you have seen but did not know it (e.g. Earthquake). One example below:
