I couldn’t honestly recommend James Clyne’s rendering DVD because the Dylan Cole dvds are so much better. Here’s a guy who went out to the community and asked what would you want to see in a dvd. Dylan’s Vol.1 dvd shows you how to paint in PhotoShop with lots of tricks with curves, gradients, atomospheric perspective. I learn quite a lot from Vol1 and Vol3. I’m not even into matte painting but I wanted to try and add some realism in my work.
Good Luck!
I found the Feng Zhu “Shot Design” DVD more informative and instructive than Ryan Church’s “Hi-Tech Architecture”. Zhu goes through basic principles, then sketches out shot after shot. Church only works on one big painting. Then again, Zhu only works with black, greys and white. In the end it depends on what you want to learn.
Neither of the DVDs teach you how to use the software. Especially “Shot Design” can easily be followed with pencil, paper and a ruler.
Marc
Rulers are for newbs 
Personally I found the Shot Design DVD very informative and even did some sketches with Copics the next day that pretty much emulated the style.
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