All depth in film is just an illusion. Movies just trick the eyes making you think there is depth. These are five good techniques on how they do it. First up lighting and shading, this method works like this, the higher the lighting contrast the deeper it appears in the film. The exact opposite of this works too, the softer it is the more round the subject will appear. Focus is another great technique people use to create depth. Focusing from objects in the front to objects in the back can show the distance between objects. One of the best things to use is perspective. Perspective gives a lot of control on ways to use it, and also happens discreetly. For example, how far away the horizon appears, and also placement of camera which creates even more depth. Next is parallax, this is when objects that are closer to the camera move faster then objects farther away. The last and one of the most important techniques is occlusion. Occlusion is just simply putting someone in the foreground to cover someone in the background. This shows a lot of depth especially when combined with others.
I thought this article/video was interesting, it had a lot of good points that I never really thought about before. For one I never noticed how many of these were actually used in films. I also never knew the correct terms for these things, and now I do. Also I never saw depth as an illusion until now, I guess I've just never thought about it before. This is more relevant to the video side of digital media but can still be applied to the camera in animate pro. Overall eye opening article.
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