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Perspective: Intermediate

Perspective: Intermediate

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Perspective: Intermediate

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- [Instructor] I want to give you a quick example of perspective, and how peculiar it can be. So in this case, we have two telegraph poles, and a road, and a big horizon, and I want you to guess where the telegraph pole that would be exactly halfway between these poles will be. So an old art director that I used to work with gave me a hint for how to find it, which is, well, the dotted line is basically what a power line would be between them. So it's, again, pointing exactly toward the horizon line here. You draw an X between each corner, and in the midpoint, that is where the second, or the halfway point will be. So this is obviously going to be important when you're animating objects, moving toward the camera. You can't, it's very difficult to gauge precisely where the halfway point will be. It's usually a little further back than you always imagine. And of course, the same principle applies to the ones between…

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