 | Painting With Light by John Alton
Buy new: $21.09 / Used from: $15.57 old school lighting basics
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 | Special Effects: An Oral History--Interviews with 37 Masters Spanning 100 Years by Pascal Pinteau
Buy used from: $5.80 VFX/SFX history
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 | The World Of 3-D: A Practical Guide To Stereo Photography (Photographic Reprint) PLUS supplement Jacobus G. Ferwerda - The Man of 3D
Buy used from: $44.98 super old school & techie... but relevant for the 3D stereo resurgence
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 | The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, Second Edition: Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) by Ron Brinkmann
Buy new: $51.15 / Used from: $37.95 its all in there! every VFX artist should own/read this!
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 | The HDRI Handbook: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists +DVD by Christian Bloch
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $34.99 more hands-on HDRI
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 | The Invisible Art by Mark Cotta Vaz
Buy used from: $60.00 matte painting technique & history that still is relevant
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 | Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali & the Artists of Optical Illusion by Al Seckel
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $9.20 pure inspiration for pseudo photoreal looks
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 | Art Forms in Nature (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Ernst Haeckel
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.00 more visual inspiration
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 | RED: The Ultimate Guide to Using the Revolutionary Camera by Noah Kadner
Buy new: $34.64 / Used from: $32.05 haven't "red" it yet... but this camera is changing VFX/movies
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 | Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See by Donald D. Hoffman
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $7.16 understand the mind/eye connection
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 | The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Ollie Johnston
Buy new: $40.50 / Used from: $33.49 VFX artists need to understand the basics of animation too!
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 | A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
Buy new: $38.21 / Used from: $7.99 cellular automata... kind of ties into the "algorithmic beauty of plants"... although its not directly VFX & there is some controversy about it... it will make you think! (this book is not for everyone...)
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 | Real-Time Massive Model Rendering (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Graphics and Animation) by Sung-eui Yoon
Buy new: $31.58 / Used from: $49.98 point cloud rendering could be a big part of VFX future (this book is not for everyone...)
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 | Color Space and Its Divisions: Color Order from Antiquity to the Present by Rolf G. Kuehni
Buy new: $116.00 / Used from: $99.50 color space is fundemental to VFX (but because of the $$$ this book is not for everyone...)
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