Whilst creating the storyboards there were times when perspective became a problem. In order to solve the problem I went straight to primary photography, this was mainly for the proportion of the Hero character, or if it was more of an architectural problem I would quickly use Maya for reference. Maya was fantastic for creating a simple and fast version of the background that I wanted to draw.
I ended up only using Maya for reference on two scenes, one contained the main interior of the Tower and the other a tilted shot of the Tower. I first tried to tackle drawing the Tower from the exterior at a canted angle with the use of three point perspective however the cone shape was frustrating. I just could not draw this cone shape in three point, if the Tower had been a square shape I would have easily have drawn the perspective.
To solve this problem with the Tower, I created an extremely basic scene in Maya, colouring the door and window with bright hues so they didn't blend in with the rest of the environment. I didn't spend too much time on modelling this Tower as I only needed this for reference in which I would be adding detail on the storyboard panel. This reference helped me so much not only with drawing the cone but it also pointed out where I went wrong with the three point perspective. I placed my guidelines over the Maya reference and noted where the base of the cone should have been curved. I will definitely be using Maya as a reference tool more often in my work.
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| Example of Basic Maya Layout |
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| An attempt at three point with a cone shaped building |
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| Extremely basic Maya reference |
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| Use of Maya screen shot to final image. |
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