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Force Perspective help needed

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Force Perspective help needed
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 31, 2005 12:09 PM
Working on a diorama of the Martian War Machine. What I need help in is figuring how to do a force perspective.

What I am trying to accomplish is having the MWM in the fore ground with trees. In the background, smaller trees and a swath of destroyed trees from its path.

I know you have larger trees in the front with the trees getting smaller as you get to the rear of the diorama. But I want to put hills to give it depth and such. Not clear in my head as how to pull this off.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
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Posted by philp on Monday, January 31, 2005 10:17 PM
Use the hills to your advantage. Each crest line will lead to a smaller batch of trees.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 1, 2005 7:45 AM
Ok, but does the size of the hill(s) matter? This may be a stupid question, but I felt I should ask it. May be I should very the size of the hills?
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Posted by ajlafleche on Thursday, February 3, 2005 12:33 PM
In order to carry out forced perspective effectively, you will need a box diorama to limit the viewing area. Using Philip's idea above, each ridge line will allow you to use a smaller scale. Think of looking over a series of ridges. Each vista is significantly farther back, hence the details look smaller with out a continuum of visual shrinkage something like this:
v
v
v
v
v
v
Where each underscore represents aridge.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 4, 2005 7:02 AM
Thanks! I get the idea now. So, each of the hills behind my subject will require smaller vegitation as it goes towards the rear of my dio.
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Posted by philp on Sunday, February 6, 2005 11:38 PM
You have the idea.
And don't make the hills the same height difference as you move back, would look unatural.
I also wouldn't do too many. Stick with between 2-4.
The nice thing about a box dio is you can really put these almost right together at the back and still have a lot of room for your main dio.

T
H T
H H
H H T
H H H T main action

Pardon my rough attempt here. This would be looking at your dio from one end with the back of the box to the left. The T stands for trees and the H for hills with the main action (tank, building, artillery, etc) taking place at the right (or front of the box).


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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 7, 2005 12:22 PM
Thanks. Will try it out this weekend.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 10:22 AM
I think it would help using lighter and lighter colours as hills are farther, just as they do in paintings
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