"any of the 3D modeling programs"...opens up minecraft

What a great time to be alive! KZfaq is full of fascinating new things to study such as art, music and computer science tutorials! We'll be never bored to live our lives ever again. Thanks!

It was about time someone did a video about rotating objects in perspective. I've been searching for a good tutorial about the topic for ages but to no avail. Thank you very much for doing a video on this topic!

He lost me fast. But I'm grateful

Thank you!!!!! And finally someone tackles perspective and include the lens types. Took me a while but I taught myself about them, learned how to identify them looking at photography and movie stills and it was a game changer. Photography tutorials on lenses help dramatically.

The camera lens thing I didn't expect to be so useful, but drawing with a wider lense makes a composition look much more dynamic!

One of the apects of perspective that often gets left out or brushed over in many tutorials. Great job explaining it.

This is such a great summary of camera angles. I love that you covered perspective, rotating your subject, distortion and effect of different lens on your subject. A lot to learn but a very good starting point in creating a storyboard or from the imagination.

I arrogantly thought I would find the box exercise trivial. I DID NOT! Great little exercise that’ll keep working at, thanks for the upload and the whole series.

I would like to add a quick note about lenses because I think it was confusing in this video - the focal length of the lens itself doesn't change perspective at all, only distance of the object does. There could be some lens distortion of course, but from the point of perspective there is no difference. The confusing part comes from mixing angle of view with framing. Where you drew cubes on the scale of wide-long lenses, you kept framing the same, so basically you put the camera closer with wide lens and farther away with long lens. A more realistic example would have been one cube with different cropping. Long lenses produce flat images because they zoom in so much that spectacular convergence is out of the frame. Feng zhu has a great video on this topic, or check out some photography tutorials. If you have a camera try photographing the same object from the same position with different focal length, then crop in the wider shot to match the longer. It will be very close.

Great tutorial!The explanation for lens lenght is often brushed over and it actually is essential to understand perspective. Also kudosa for the relaxing background music

I really can't express in simple words how thankful I am for your existence I feel so appreciative holy shit please please never stop uploading those videos and if you need to u can take a break just don't ever get sick of it

Best MDJ video I've seen. Great job!

i love your videos, they are very educative in some of the most important subjects in art: perspective and anatomy. Keep it up!

These perspective tutorials are all very useful ! my only problem is since your talking over pre recorded footage sometimes it's hard to tell what part of your drawing your talking about although it might just be me

very helpful, thank you! I was reading How to draw by Scott Robertson and watching your video give me more information about how it's applied.

Look at you even uploading on thanksgiving what a saint

these are the best tutorials out there for fundamentals

So good, amazing to artists everywhere thanks for uploading

The clock method really helped me - far more than it should have. I'm somewhat embarrassed that I didn't think of such a simple perspective before.

thank you so much for describing the process so detail!very grateful!

this series is pure gold.. Im making screen shots and posting on Pintrest so Ill have those for ref when I practice if you don't mind. Mentioning your YT user name and linking the relevant video always. This is top quality stuff thank you

Today I can say I'm very thankful for these vids! :)

SO helpful holy shit i was struggling to create a rectangular prism at my own selected perspective but this was hella helpful i understood what to do after the first page

THIS IS SO NICE !! Thank you so much for such an interesting content, this helps a lot! i m taking notes

I love your channel! Thanks for this kind of videos, they are super helpful for an aspiring animator~

Boy, I've seen this topic explained wrongly or needlessly complicated a ton. Thanks for this sleak tutorial for rotating forms. It's what I needed to draw objects rotated out of the main VP grid.

man, you are awesome, this video is the answer of my long waited question. Thanks a lot.

That is exactly what is missing from all these "learn to draw in perspective" tutorials that only show you how to draw perfectly 90 degrees angle shapes. Need to wrap my head around these concepts, doing rotations in 2pt perspectives is a lot to process for my brains!

This was super helpful!

That is one tiny dumpster...or a really huge van. Love your videos, no beating around the bush and awesome content!

Thank you James. Very helpful

Mind... blown!

this is pure gold

thank you so much I was looking for an explanation on that you're an angel

Gonna watch this again! And practice! ❤ very helpful

My mind is blown

Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing with us

infinitely useful. Thank you.

1:10 when you rotate in xz plane you create a new set of VPs that are unique from the previous rotation

Fantastic lessons on your channel, thank you. I'll be committing some time to learning from you.

best tutorial I found so far.

Have an exam next week, this would be a really usefull tip for me.

krentz cushart's technique is amazing

His techniques are da best

amazing craft, thanks!

Powerful course 👏👏👏

I used to pray the rosary but now i just watch all these perspective videos in series.

OH MY GOD!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!

Thank YOU... MUCH appreciated.!! Simple and effective videos.

Really helpfull material! Thanks!

Awesome! Really Helpfull Thank you!

Amazing super helpful thank you so much !

This video helped a lot

Wowow thanks for sharing

I think I’m slowly starting to get it!

Thank you!

Good job

Excelente ejmplo hermano. Muy bueno.

Wow wow

awesome

Pencil know the struggle

all what i need

This is so hard.

Amazing :D

Finally! I will be able to draw the swag red amongus wearing Jordans!

Hi James. Helpful video :) I've just figured out what's happening with the rotating boxes exercise. I'm assuming the panning camera would also be rotating in order to keep the box center frame each time? And the y and x axes of the graph represents the side and top planes respectively? Also, could I just substitute the camera for an eye level? Cheers!

Hey james, could you maybe give a list of the resources and/or books that you've found most useful in your studies so far? Your lessons are very crisp, and easy to follow. You're doing a great job with them!

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Great

very helpfull

I don't know why seeing you sketching vehicle makes me wanna play GTA

Idk why but I can’t wrap my brain around it.

Hi, I have a question. Krenz cushart seems to use a different method of 'rotation' - he divides a square into 16 units, etc. to find the precise angle of rotation. Your method uses cylinders, and just rotating within it, very interesting. Are both these methods interchangeable? Or do they have different purposes?

6:45 I don't understand. placing another rotated object in perspective can be done by establishing viewing angle and moving vanishing points in sync.At the beginning of the video you show an ellipse method for 1 point. So what exactly are you doing at 6:45? how do you know this box fits in that scene based on the information there?

would "isometric perspective" be the same as euclidean space? if not What would be the difference?

Awesome video! Quick question: When you're turning the boxes at 1:52, are some of the boxes in 1 point perspective and others two or are all 1 or two point?

THIS HAS BEEN IN TIME LAPSE ALL ALONG? No wonder I’ve messed up while trying to match your pace.

when you create an ellipse to rotate a cube or form, does that ellipse need to be a perfect circle? and by this i don't mean that it will look like a real circle on paper, but instead that it is a real circle accurately drawn in perspective. I think it would make sense that you would have to rotate around a perfect circle (in perspective,) but then how do you efficiently draw that perfect circle in perspective? I know that there is a long method for how to create perfect circles in perspective, but I was wondering if there is a simple way to freehand a perfect circle in perspective with pretty solid accuracy? Or do ppl just eyeball it after years of practicing drawing perfect circles in perspective the hard way?

40 seconds in and my brain isn't working anymore

In the rotating cube exercise, how do you know where the vanishing points are for each cube?

When he starts the detailed drawings in these videos I had to change the video speed to 0.5 for easier learning.

at 5:00 you are raising the camera level, you only had to make the downwards lines parallel. Same at 8:00 you have a different stationary point.

I should really learn perspective because I'm having trouble with that

Love the tutorial but gee how do you draw your lines so effortlessly without the vanishing points!

Hey great video. How do you draw specifically for a 20mm lens, or a 45mm, or 80, and so on. Where can I find these techniques? Thanks!

nice perspective demonstration, looking forward for advanced perspective demonstration especially when y want to create new planes and y want to Define a custom rotation axis for that plane (custom Axis means not lying on one of the 3 vps of the box vanishing lines in picture plane)

This is one of the better perspective tutorials. _However_, it still does not cover what I've been seeking for awhile, now. I cannot seem to find any one who does! Are there techniques to draw just a simple box but tilted on the *other* two axis. Every perspective tutorial I find always has the bottom of the box parallel to the ground, as if everything is always in complete "order". How do you draw more "chaotic" things in proper perspective; such as if the box is thrown through the air and spins at different angles? Any info on this would be most welcome!

But are you just guessing it now? At 6:43, as well as in the sketches in some of your other videos, there seems to be no thought process anymore to the rotating.

Tell me, please, from which part of "Star Wars" is this composition taken?

The perspective and angles are easier, I just watch such videos to marvel at peoples skills of drawing automobiles. No matter how much I practice I suck at drawing them.

I’ve been studying your videos, a few months now. You discuss technical terms very fast.. I don’t know all these definitions. Also, you move fast.. understandably you wouldn’t want your videos to be boring. I’d recommend adding documents for reference (Google Docs is free/shareable).. like dude, I had to screenshot a lot of info. u displayed. Maybe if u had a book? Like Scott Robertson. You have more than enough, talent my friend. I’d buy your book.

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I understand the concept of Wide/Long angle lenses , yet in your video when you made the transition from wide angle lens boxes to the long angle lens boxes you raised the Horizon line extremely higher ! , and as far as i know the HL stays the same it doesn't move up or down , and if you are talking about convergence and how much vanishing points are placed far from each other then we should have seen an opposite effect to your transition where the long lens on the left and the wide lens on the right , What is your take on that ?

how didyou draw fig on 0 sek? what proportions did you use? sorry for my english

Where do you find the information on how tings look with specific film lenses?

Are all those new VPs on the same horizon line James? Thanks!

hey james. I like your channel and its entertaining to watch. However I would have loved seeing more help and insight regarding how to "place" the camera in my mind. how does it relate with vanishing points etc. when im drawing extreme angles i just have to rely on reference. there is no way for me currently to construct a complicated scene or a room.

how do you know every box is the same volume?

wide lense gang