For those who have been reading my blog for awhile, you probably remember several articles in the past that I wrote on perspective in compositing. Today, I decided to do a quick video to demonstrate the technique in a real example of a composite that I am currently working on with three oryx antelope.
I have a juvenile and baby antelope in the front of the scene and the mommy antelope way back in the scene. In my original composition, I just placed the large antelope in the background and “guessed” at how big it should be. As I continued to work on the painting, it just bugged me that something wasn’t right. Finally, I opened a test file, grabbed the three cutouts and did a proper perspective transformation on the large antelope and sure enough.. I had her way too big in my original design. It was the perspective of the large antelope that kept bugging my brain, but I just wasn’t sure what it was.
With that recent experience, I decide to put together a quick video to demonstrate how you can check your perspective on your cutouts before you spend hours painting, colorizing and lighting your scene only to find out you are “way off” on your perspective.
As before, this is critical if you see the element’s (people or animal) feet. If you have a close up view with just a torso or headshot, then only the camera angle at capture is probably going to matter.. But if the element is in the background of your scene and you could see their feet (even if you put a bush or rock or something in front of the feet), you should ensure that they are sized correctly based on perspective. Here is how you do it.
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