Great idea, looks nice so far although a little flat (unless that's on purpose, which could well be the case to empasize Alice's boredom)... I like the way you placed the rabbit is placed slightly right of the center which helps break up the symmetry of the rest of the compostion. It's doubly nice because of the rabbit's crazy nature, so he stands out even more as the odd character in the picture. Even though the framing is very square, you could pull out the perspective to add depth (for example, at the moment the foreground chairs only appear slightly bigger than the ones behind the table which shows how shallow the perspective is), also to break up the flatness, you could place things at angles so all the horizontal lines in the picture aren't parallel with the frame eg the table top, the tops of the chairs etc.
That's was good read, thanks. Yeah, flat side-on staging in movies is used a lot in comedic scenes - it always gives me a sense of oddness about it, something not natural, something quirky and particular. 'Oddball' shows like Napoleon Dynamite use it throughout. And one thing that I've always loved about illustration and hand-drawn animation is the ability to be abstract and not adhere to either bend the rules of perspective, or even not adhere to them at all.
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Great idea, looks nice so far although a little flat (unless that's on purpose, which could well be the case to empasize Alice's boredom)...
I like the way you placed the rabbit is placed slightly right of the center which helps break up the symmetry of the rest of the compostion. It's doubly nice because of the rabbit's crazy nature, so he stands out even more as the odd character in the picture.
Even though the framing is very square, you could pull out the perspective to add depth (for example, at the moment the foreground chairs only appear slightly bigger than the ones behind the table which shows how shallow the perspective is), also to break up the flatness, you could place things at angles so all the horizontal lines in the picture aren't parallel with the frame eg the table top, the tops of the chairs etc.
Thanks James. Some good things to think about. I still have a lot to work out. Kinda just jumped in with this one.
This is worth a look.
http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/2009/02/just-little-bit-more-more-flat-and-deep.html
It is something I was thinking about - Flat vs depth and the relative effects
That's was good read, thanks.
Yeah, flat side-on staging in movies is used a lot in comedic scenes - it always gives me a sense of oddness about it, something not natural, something quirky and particular. 'Oddball' shows like Napoleon Dynamite use it throughout.
And one thing that I've always loved about illustration and hand-drawn animation is the ability to be abstract and not adhere to either bend the rules of perspective, or even not adhere to them at all.
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