Overview

 

For week two of the Animation Studio module we learned about the perspective and composition of scenes and how it can affect the fluidity of the piece. In this class we learned about the rule of Thirds for the scenes and how it can help lead the viewers eye to key elements if used effectively. We looked at how different movies used all sorts of techniques for their compositions. We looked at how some pieces could use the golden ratio (or Phi Grid) in order to have a fluid composition which follows the natural curves which appear in the real world. For the homework we had to work on over this week we had to take snapshots from animations we enjoy and draw the perspective lines on them for One-Point perspective and Two-Point perspectives respectively.

Since I don’t really watch many animated TV shows I chose to take snapshots from animated movies like the ones Disney creates. For the first movie I took a one-point snapshot from 101 Dalmatians and at first I wasn’t quite sure how to draw out the perspective lines for it as the tools that was used in the demonstration had been changed in a recent update the software had before I began using it although after talking to the course technician I managed to find a way of easily drawing them out onto the snapshot.

 

For the first two-point perspective snapshot I took a scene from 101 Dalmatians II and at first I wasn’t too sure how to tell what screenshots had a two-point perspective as opposed to a one-point one etc. although after talking to someone in the university the differences between both perspectives became clearer for me and I found it somewhat easier understand how to draw the perspective lines onto the snapshot.

 

The other 4 perspective pieces where fairly easy to do following this as I had a much better understanding of how to pick out screenshots with the different perspectives in them. I was able to find one-point and two-point perspective screenshots for the movies Lady and the Tramp as well as Fox and the Hound which brought my perspective studies total up to three studies of each as shown below.