Help for Fisheye Users, Others

Hey, everybody,
If you're using fisheye perspective on any upcoming project and want to get that globe grid blown up to a big size...
Or you've got a great layout for a drawing or a comics page that you want to transfer to a bigger, better piece of paper without losing its dynamism...
...the Artograph I'm placing in Room 400 tonight can help you. It's a tracing aid, basically an opaque projector that projects down onto your piece of paper whatever image you pin to its internal copy board. This can save you having to use xerox enlargements to get an image the size you want. It can likewise save you trying to find a scanner and large printer.

JH

What's wrong with these pictures? or "Swagg" through the floor

From the intriguing blog "Photoshop Disasters," some doctored advertising art that skirts the limit of the possible, then blindly steps past it. Can you discern how each of these images shows a scene that cannot be? Hint: If you're stumped, check the reflections.

JH

Check your reflection

Here's a way to check the reflections you make. It uses projection lines (going back to VPs),  and the insight that these must meet their own reflections at the ground line of the mirror's plane.

Give it a second, it animates. Reload page to replay.
EDIT this one's not playing. see this one
JH

Makeup Session

Here's a reminder, Perspective Students:
Saturday from 10am to 3pm in Room 310,  540 Powell. Please bring your work and your questions.  You must stay at least 20 min to be marked present.

JH


art by Chris Mullins

From the blog "Photoshop Disasters"

Test your perspective smarts. What's wrong with these pictures?  They are from the amusing and eye-opening photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com

JH

Examples of the One-Point Street

Hi, Class.
I found the examples of this assignment I have are all from ILL625, the graduate course "Drawing from the Imagination." So bear in mind that these are the work of graduate students.

The first example won an A, I think, not for being free of error, which it isn't, but for being so well-planned, thorough and logical with the shadows.
So what's where's the error? For starters he put the sun too close to the VP, which made the shadows very long across the faces of the buildings and caused him a couple problems. For a detailed analysis of this one, see my blog for ILL625. It will help you a lot with our current assignment.

The second examples was by a fellow named Chad, the finest artist ever to come through my online sections. There was one subtle thing wrong, and a lot of pluses. The pluses were the addition of four extra vanishing points(!!), atmospheric perspective (the way the farther things are lighter and less contrasty, especially closer to the dusty street, to give an added sense or air and depth). The wrong thing? There should really be soft, faint "puddles" of shadow under big things like the coach and horses, made by the scattered light coming down, not directly from the sun, but from the sky.

If you look closely, you can see that he subtly used some digitally set type on a couple of the signs on the left side of the street. My hat's off...

JH

The Batman Boarding Assignment!

Here it is, y'all. Thanks for your patience.

Remember, you're the director on this one. You cut as often, and to the type of shot, that you think fits the moment. It's not too soon to break down the dialog, deciding where in a sentence you'll...
...cut to the next frame.

The sequence you are illustrating starts in the comic book pages. You must illustrate the part of the script that begins "THEN the discussion continues."

JH

Check your Reflection

Here's how to make sure there's no spinach between your teeth. The image takes a few seconds to change (thrice), to give you a chance to immerse yourself in the revealed truth.

JH