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beahaxby
beahaxby
Inspiring
May 6, 2018
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Which software should I use for architectural type orthographic projection?

  • May 6, 2018
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Hey

So I'm a fine artist and I'm currently doing a project investigating the parallels between film and fine art. I've been comparing perspective in drawings and paintings to perspective in film shots (see below)

I want to find a software which will generate 3rd, 4th and 5th point orthographic projections that I can map these screenshots onto so I can demonstrate this idea neatly. And if I can animate it in the software that would be even better.


Let me know if you need any more info.

Thanks!

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
May 6, 2018

There is no such thing as n-point perspective in video/ film. The whole notion just sounds weird to me. The entire perspective perception merely depends on the actual use of lenses and is a naturallly occuring physical thing. You couldn't create even a 2 point perspective with a physical camera as it is understood in traditional drawing/ painting, much less 3 point and beyond. Film lenses don't even necessarily have even curvature, depending for what system they are built. Again, it seems to me you are trying to fit film/ video into a corset of traditional arts in which it won't fit and this could possibly end up being embarassing and blowing up into your face. Conversely, even most contemporary painters don't paint with lens distortion in mind. Image compositions for moving pictures simply work quite differently, both with regards to the aesthetics as the technical underpinnings. Anyway, the most appropriate way to create such convoluted things would be to use After Effects, but would naturally involve a lot of Photoshop and Illustrator as well to prep images and draw your overlay grids and curves.

Mylenium

beahaxby
beahaxbyAuthor
Inspiring
May 6, 2018

Check out art director Harold Michelson's camera angle projection method. It was a method used by art directors back in the day for previewing set plans and camera placement. It involves taking the information of a plan and elevation of the set and using it to plot a perspective drawing according to the rules of linear perspective. It's a relatively untapped area of research and that's why I'm interested in pursuing it. Everyone knows that the most interesting art is produced when someone comes at something from a different angle. If that wasn't the case there would be only one artist in the art canon. What is the art canon, or any canon for that matter, film, science etc. but a long line of people answering and responding to the others ideas and discoveries? The end painting is meant to be a painting of a film still with lens distortion. I am in my first year of a Fine Art BA without any formal training in film or fine art, and am a beginner to this area of research but this is a subject which really fascinates me and I want to soak up as much as possible on cinematography, image composition and perspective.  Thanks for your suggestions.

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