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5:38 PM, Thursday February 2nd 2023

The constructional drawing exercises we do in this course are less about being hyper-accurate to our references, but more about going through the steps, employing the specific techniques introduced here, in order to put our brains through the paces of solving a 3D spatial problem.

Given that, it is best to use the sausage method even when the legs appear super straight. It will also help attune your observation to identify subtler curves and flows in the legs of your animals, helping to keep them feeling overly stiff and robotic.

2:47 PM, Monday February 27th 2023

hey I'm having difficulty trying to transition shadows from form to form. Any time I do it, it always looks incorrect. Here's an example of what I mean:

https://imgur.com/a/9U2SU8g

any general rules or ways to think about this that can help with transitioning the shadow from different forms?

5:23 PM, Monday February 27th 2023

There are indeed a few issues here.

  • Firstly, you've got a gap between your filled shadow and the form casting it. I'm pretty sure your intention here is not to have the upper sausage floating above the lower sausage, but rather to have it resting upon it. Thus there should be no gap between the upper sausage and the shadow it casts, because there's no physical space between it and that surface.

  • Similarly to the first point, where the cast shadow transitions from the lower sausage to the ground plane, you have that shadow get disjointed, effectively shunting it over a measure. But there's no such break in the upper sausage, nor is there any such break in the surfaces the shadow is being cast upon (the lower sausage is touching the ground plane, so the shadow doesn't have to jump any sort of a gap). So there should be no such break in the shadow being cast either.

Here I've marked out what the cast shadow would look like. It runs along the surface of the lower sausage (even hooking back a bit along the bottom edge) before transferring to the ground plane. I'd also advise you to pay closer attention to your contour lines, as their alignment tends to be quite skewed.

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