Perspective

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This lesson we were working on Perspective. 1 Point Perspective, 2 Point Perspective, and 3 Point Perspective. This image shows the first 3 types of perspectives, though the 3rd one I messed up. It will be seen in the next images. I've done a bit of perspective work in the past, so this stuff wasn't to hard to do. Also included in the above image, are the steps to get your page into exact thirds.

You draw the lines from the corner of the page to the opposite corner. Then use the cross section of those 2 lines to create a vertical line directly in the middle of the page. You then continue by using the top of that center line, and draw lines to the bottom corners of the page. The way you find the exact thirds of the page, is by doing those steps, then proceeding to use the cross section of Step 1, and Step 3 to find the thirds. This was really interesting to find out.

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The above image is of a failed attempt at 3 Point Perspective. The reason I failed is that it looks distorted. The reason it looks so distorted is because the vanishing points were too close together, which creates the distorted look when you try to draw the box.

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This is a better (working) version of 3 point perspective. I moved the vanishing points much further away from each other, and as a result, the box looks much better. :D

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This image is creating a shadow of a box. I can't remember how it works exactly, but you use the 2 coordinates to create the shadow, and determine how long the shadow is, and the angle of the shadow. 

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This took ages to complete. It's not the best, but I think it's good for somebody who is not a great drawer, so please give me a chance. I did this by basically drawing the outline of a single box, (you can still see bits of it) and then carved the buildings into it.

Cheers

Jack

Isometric

Second class of Drawing for Animation. Working with isometric and orthographic drawings.

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We started the class with just experimenting with the isometric grid paper. Drawing random stuff like boxes and prisms etc. I found it pretty easy to use straight away. Also included in this image is an extruded floor map. This was a bit tricky for me to do, but I eventually understood how it worked.

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This is an orthographic projection of a house. Basically this serves to create side views of the house to be easier seen. I found this pretty straight forward. I did make it a bit easy to do, but that's only because I wasn't sure how I'd go with it, so I didn't want to make it anything complex.

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This image is showing projecting and penetrating form. What that basically is, is projecting objects onto other objects, in this case a cube, so you can cut out sections and extrude others. The first two (top) I found pretty difficult as they were my first tries of this projecting and penetrating form.

The first animation is of a box closing. You could either do this by individually drawing the frames separately, or by drawing it once, and using curved guidelines to assist the rest of the gif. I chose to draw the box closing frame by frame.

The second animation is of a flying chair that does a sick awesome back flip. I found this very hard to accomplish in terms of frame 2 and 4. The odd number of frames was easy because of the isometric grid. Frames 2 and 4 did not have the isometric grid in the correct place to aid in the drawing of the chair. In the end, it took ages to get the chair to look good in frames 2 and 4.

Cheers


Jack