The content for this week’s lectures was about composition and perspective, which is an area of art that I’ve never really looked into too much. I know a little bit about composition but I have never learned how perspective works or how to really use it in my own personal art.
For this week’s assignment, we were asked to take screenshots from animations and find the perspective in the shot. Perspective as a whole is incredibly new to me, and therefore I struggled a lot with this task. I found it difficult to identify what scenes had one-point perspectives, and what ones had two-point perspectives. I think I need to practise more with perspective in my own time so that I can properly understand how it works and try to use it effectively in my art and animation.
The first attempt I made at the task was with a scene from ‘Your name’ as it is my favorite animated movie. The first attempt I made was a one-point perspective but I then came back to it after having done the other two scenes and decided it was more likely to be a two-point perspective scene and tried to draw this in. The railings gave me a faint idea of where certain perspective lines should go, although I still struggled with it overall. The scenes in this animated movie are so beautifully drawn that I found myself looking to the horizon and investigating the backgrounds a lot while watching it. The colours used, and the background really helps add a mysterious and longing impression to the image.
The second was a scene from the attack on titans, which is an anime I watched a long time ago. To be honest I only chose this scene because I thought it had an obvious perspective that I would be able to show effectively. It did help me with finding the horizon line easier. The rooftop shape outlined the perspective of the shot quite well, and it was an interesting place to have a scene take place, with the angle and perspective of the shots.
The third scene I chose to do is from My hero academia, although I’ve never watched it. It had an interesting perspective that I could easily identify although I’m still not sure how well I’ve shown it through this diagram. I feel like the perspective lines were slightly easier to follow with this scene, as they seem to line up with the buildings and rails used in the street. The colours are bright and create a vibrant and happier image, with the characters adding more personality into the shot.
