True Reverse Perspective from JMS on Vimeo.
Really interesting piece exploring reverse perspective - that is, when objects far away are larger rather than smaller. The animation was produced by animation student Jeremy Mooney-Somers, and is actually is a 'proof of concept' for TRP functionality (True Reverse Perspective). He's also produced a similar proof of concept for Maya (here) but it's nowhere near as nice looking. Alhough the scenery is probably purely functional - an equivalent of the ubiquitous 3D test rabbit - I love the aesthetic. There's something really painterly about it, most likely because reverse, or byzantine perspective has a history of it's own, going back to Byzantine times (yeah, beats me - I think it was part of the past? Like, olden times?). Anyway, it's a familiar, eerie effect. Familiar because I've come across those Russian religious icon images before, like here, and eerie 'cos it makes sense to the eye but also sorta scrambles it. The cool thing is that 3D animation can work with this so easily. You can swap around your camera with such ease and precision that exploring the technique would be fun.
Here's a little more about reverse perspective.
