TABLE OF CONTENTS If you've ever taken a presentation drawing class, you've probably been shown the importance of carefully observing the subject of your drawing. It's important to be aware of the details of a scene or landscape that might otherwise go unnoticed. By recording those details in your sketches and drawings, you create a sense of depth and realism.
When you create a scene in VIZ, it helps to recall those lessons in observation, even though you aren't creating a scene from real life. If you're creating a rendering of a building with lots of glass, it helps to go out and take a look at buildings and carefully study how glass reflects the surrounding landscape. If you're doing an interior rendering, you may find it helpful to find a room that's similar to the one you are rendering and carefully examine how the light is reflected throughout the room from various sources. By understanding the behavior of materials and light in the real world, you are better equipped to create realistic scenes in VIZ.
In this chapter, you'll take a look at what I call staging. Staging is the process of setting up your scene for a shoot, and that includes placing the camera and thus setting up the relationship between the subject being shot and its surrounding environment.
So far, you have been working with the standard views including Top, Left, Right, and Perspective ...
