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9:17 PM, Thursday August 25th 2022
edited at 9:17 PM, Aug 25th 2022

try imagining the horizon line in different positions this is explained much better in this link and will help with the complicated dutch angle type of boxes that are present on your page

edited at 9:17 PM, Aug 25th 2022
5:00 PM, Friday August 26th 2022

First of all, thank you for your input, I really appreciate it, but man I think I lost a few brain cells trying to understand the concepts in that link.

I do not really get the station point and how to keep it 60 degrees like the human vision. Ignoring all that, I do not know what a dutch angle is but; I think you realized what I am trying to do with my shity distorted boxes, which is rotating them on werid angles.

Do you mind elaborating further or perhaps pointing me to resources? Thank you.

p.s I know a lot of this is unnecessary for the 250box challenge but to be frank I care much more about understanding perspective and rotating the boxes, than completing the challenge, so throw any "advanced resource" at me if it means more exp in perspective.

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