David B. Mattingly

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David B. Mattingly
Born (1956-06-29) June 29, 1956 (age 67)
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Nationality American
Occupation(s) Illustrator, painter
Known forBook cover artwork
Website www.davidmattingly.com

David Burroughs Mattingly (born June 29, 1956) is an American illustrator and painter, best known for his numerous book covers of science fiction and fantasy literature. [1]

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Early life and career

Mattingly was born in and grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado, and was inspired at age twelve to enter the visual arts, and discovered matte art. Mattingly first attended Colorado Institute of Art, then transferred to Art Center College of Art and Design. He left from there to take a job as a matte artist at Disney Studios. There he worked on the production of The Black Hole . [2] He also worked on films including Tron , Dick Tracy , The Watcher in the Woods , and Stephen King's The Stand miniseries. [3] After seven years, he became the head of the matte department there. [2] He later worked on the films I, Robot [4] and Hail, Caesar! . [5]

After moving to New York, Mattingly was under contract at Ballantine Books. He has done more than 2000 book covers for Ballantine, Baen, Ballantine, Bantam, Berkley, Dell, Alfred A. Knopf, Marvel Comics, Omni, Playboy, Ace, Penguin, Scholastic, Signet, and Tor. He later took a matte art teaching position at the School of Visual Art, and then the Pratt Institute, [2] where he is an adjunct professor. He teaches digital matte painting and compositing at both institutions. [3] Mattingly is the subject of the 1996 book Alternate views, alternate universes: the art of David B. Mattingly by Cathleen Cogswell. [6] He currently works as an independent matte artist and illustrator in addition to his teaching. [7]

Publications

David created 55 of 64 covers for K. A. Applegate's Animorphs series. [7] He also created covers for all of David Weber's Honorverse science-fiction series.[ citation needed ] He has been the Artist Guest of Honor at a number of conventions, including Technicon 24 and Loscon 42. [8] He has also published a handbook on digital matte painting, The Digital Matte Painting Handbook. [9]

Books

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References

  1. "Summary Bibliography: David B. Mattingly". ISFDB. Retrieved August 4, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Mattingly, David B. (2011). The Digital Matte Painting Handbook. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   9781118078044 via Google Books.
  3. 1 2 "Pratt Institute".
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  6. Cathleen Cogswell. Alternate views, alternate universes: the art of David B. Mattingly. Paper Tiger. 1996
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  8. "Artist Guest of Honor: David B. Mattingly". Technicon 24. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2010.
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