Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 21:29:45 +0000 From: Donal Tobin <Donal.Tobin@cs.tcd.ie> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Subject: Re: Another small nitpick [was Re: Revised version of "Giant Step" GIF] Message-ID: <199503072130.NAA26359@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Mar 1995 12:06:52 PST." <23693.794606812@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> [ Yes, I'm waiting for the airport shuttle and trying to think up useless > things to do in the interim! :-) ] > > I also notice that it's kind of hard to orient the footprint and the > location the daemon is obviously standing in to create the shadow > (though the shadow from the ladder is pretty acute and the daemon's > shadow less so, so it's still a little hard). To get a sense of > "action" from this image it might be better to skew the footprint a > little so that it's plain that the daemon was walking towards the > location he's now standing in. Yeah this is quite visible. The real reason is that it looks as if it is a foot print from the left leg but it is in the positon that one would expect the right leg to be in (given its relationship to the ladder and shadow). The curve on the footprint indicates that is is a left to me. > I know it seems a small detail, but the viewers eye takes notice of > these small details and it all either adds up to a feeling of > "reality" about the picture or it doesn't. The picture, as clearly > and expertly drawn as it is, somehow doesn't give me that exact > feeling. This is real comercial quality imagery - it is the kind of poster people would pay mucho spondulics for. As ever ... Donal. VOo=-+*+-=oOVOo=-+*+-=oOVOo=-+*+-=oOVOo=-+*+-=oOVOo=-+*+-=oOV | Donal.Tobin@tcd.ie | When you get carried away | | +353-1-608-1797 | by enthusiasm you may be lucky | | Will take MIME | if you can hitch-hike it back. | AOo=-+*+-=oOAOo=-+*+-=oOAOo=-+*+-=oOAOo=-+*+-=oOAOo=-+*+-=oOA <A HREF="http://www.cs.tcd.ie/www/detobin/detobin.html">Info here :-)</A>
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