Each time I stumble upon newly published stills from the upcoming season of the “Severance” series, my head instantly replays one thing: its epic intro. Do you remember how beautifully odd and fascinatingly disgusting it looked, with somewhat clumsy animation and creative scene transitions? However, there is one tool that makes this intro stand out even more. Namely, orthographic projection. Sounds difficult? No worries! We will dissect this term piece by piece until we reach its pumping heart and show how it can visually impact your scenes. It all starts with perspective. As you know, perspective is one of the most important visual cues to create depth in your shots and make them feel realistic (we talk a lot about it here). When we mention this term, I bet everyone imagines vanishing points, lines running together, and how the size of similar objects becomes smaller and smaller in the background. Somehow, we’re rarely aware that there are different ways of depicting reality other than the linear perspective. Let’s put an end to this injustice! What is perspective? In his rather philosophical text “Perspective as Symbolic Form,” Erwin Panofsky refers to a definition made by phenomenal German painter Albrecht Dürer: Perspectiva is a Latin word which means “seeing through.” Dürer lived between the 15th and 16th centuries, in times of the Renaissance, and besides his art, he worked on theoretical treatises, which involved principles of mathematics for linear perspective. Yes, it wasn’t always obvious how its geometry worked, especially not until...
Published By: CineD - 6 days ago