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A layout sketch I did for Lilo and Stitch. This one was fun to do.Related content
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This is gorgeous!Β I love the composition and design of the scene.
What technique/techniques do you use to keep your perspective consistent? (Do you use perspective grids?) Also, how do you make sure the scale is right - the size of the people and vehicles in relation to the buildings? Scale is something I always seem to struggle with...
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If you wish, email me and I'll send you a diagram of all of this.
Here goes.Β At Disney, I used a regular four foot long layout desk. We had no computers and so had to draw all our movies completely by hand!
Out to both sides of the desk andΒ a couple feet beyond the right and left edges of the tilted drawing table (even with the drawing surface) I put a push pin where my horizon line was needed. We had cabinetry on either side of our desks so this provided a handy spot to stick the push pins.
Β I attached long strings to each pin and kept their endsΒ in my lap. I eyeballed the verticals but if you wanted to, you could get a brick or something heavy and tie a third string to it. Place the brick below you on the floor and bring the string up between your knees. Now you can do three point perspective that is dead on every time!Β
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Clamp a board ("1x4" pine will do, about six or seven foot long) to the underside of your drawing board (which should always be tilted by the way).Β Put the board either nearer the top edge of your drawing paper or nearer the bottom,or anywhere in between depending on how high or low you want your horizon line to be...and clamp it with a couple of cheap clamps.( C-Clamps or those large black hand clamps you can get at the Home depot for a few bucks work nicely). The board should be level and square with the vertical edge of your drawing baord and thusΒ will be horizontally mounted as you look at your drawing sitting in your chair. Put the pins (or long nails if needed) spaced out further towards the end of the board on one side, and closer to the edge of you paper/drawing baord on the other. You can experiment of course!
Β Then, your all set.
Scale is easy. Draw a person of average height on your drawing. Then use the strings to project the foot position and head positions back toward the vanishing point and draw another person somewhere along those line but scaled to fit between them. Youll soon see how easy it all is to maintain scale and perspective for every thing in your drawing using those three strings.Β If your drawing digitally, then all of this is moot!Β Β
So there it is...that's how it was done perspective-wise.
Cheers!
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I seem to recognise it was from the deleted scenes involving Stitch piloting a jumbo jet through is particular city.
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Correct! We spent a lot of time on that sequence before it was overhauled.
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Interesting to hear, and I hear that this was the 'fully completed' alternate near-ending as released as part of special features.
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I believe it was. we were very nearly all done with the sequence if I remember rightly....
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*sigh* Some of us know how everyone felt there. Though, cheers on the effort involved in this sequence.
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