John Freeman wrote:
> We have had discussions before about scale, and how sometimes one must
> be not to scale in order to look right. This is one of those times.
> And yet--looking at old photos of these flying bundles of wood, wire,
> and fabric, I find that I cannot often see the rigging on them either.
> Decisions, decisions. Do I want to be scale, or do I want you to see all
> that work?
In film we use scale only as a relative thing. Larger items are in the
foreground and things get smaller the "further away" they are supposed
to be. The same goes for details. If they are too small to show at the
"real" (as in scale) distance, then don't put them in as they will just
make things look fake. Even colours are dome lighter and more muted when
things are "farther away".
Precise scale is useful for a single model but as soon as there are
several models in a diorama the idea of scale becomes irrelevant and
what looks right comes to the fore. "Everything perfectly to scale"
results in a display of models whereas, "what looks right" makes for
realism.
cat
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