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Cheating depth with color and tone

Cheating depth with color and tone

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Cheating depth with color and tone

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to look at air or in this example, the lack of air. If you are on the moon, there's no air, which means that objects on the horizon look just as crisp as something right beneath your feet and this obviously could create problems because you can't tell differences between distance very easily. So fortunately, on the earth, we have an atmosphere and in this case, I have six imaginary objects, they're all the same tonal value and the same color, moving away into depth and if we add our atmosphere, what will happen is the air scatters the light, so it's going to make the object look a lot lighter in the distance. There's more air breaking up the light from the object. Colors also respond to this by being desaturated, so the further away an object is from you, it'll tend to be less intense in color. So let's use some of these ideas to play with space and take existing pieces of artwork…

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