For this week, I took three screenshots from media I liked and studied perspective using perspective rulers.
I first took these two screenshots from the film Promare from Studio Trigger. These are both examples of two point perspective. Both of these backgrounds have vanishing points outside of the frame itself. I found these points by drawing lines from using items within the frame as a guide, and finding the horizon line.
This still from Akira is an example of one point perspective. It was easy to find the vanishing point here as it was right in the center. This scene has a low horizon line; tall buildings make up most of the frame to create a cityscape.
Using what I learned from these studies, I created some thumbnails based of the worlds we have been coming up with in our groups.
These thumbnails include a mix of three worlds we had come up with; A neo-noir 50s inspired city, a mystical swamp, and a Lovecraftian seaside village.
These thumbnails hone in on our final chosen world, the Neo Noir City. I focused on key areas from our ideas, such as a detective’s office, red light district, and a diner.
I found it difficult working in just black and white as it’s easy to make a scene too dark or to create wrong tonal values with no colour as reference, so I found these studies to be challenging but very helpful.