under a lamp-post

so heres the background to the start and end of my animation.




the boy at the start of my animation is standing in the corner of this room. this drawing, and my understanding of perspective, is inspired by escher. he never actually used curved perspective as the subject of any one print, but it features in lots of his later work - "high and low" is probably the best example.



he gives a really good example of how curved perspective can be observed in real life. stand underneath two telegraph wires and look straight ahead, and notice how they converge to a point. then look straight up, and observe how they are parallel. then turn around and look straight behind, and notice again how they converge to a point. therefore, there must be a curve in the perspective! the more you try and look for this, the more you will see it...it only happens in the periphery of vision. our brains decode information in such a way that curved lines appear straight.