Good things come in narrow packages

[Sumpter250]

Thank you biL....I really appreciate it!
I think another thing this pic shows, is that I need to seriously rethink the importance of back drop painting or adding some type of disguise so that the road doesn't drop off the edge of the earth. Many of the techniques used to do that, require more room than I can spare........I know that there are ways around it, and I will address those.....eventually.

As I read this, memories of how the animators of Disney's "Bambi" used multiple level backdrop scenes, and as the characters moved across the foreground, they were able to shift the background at the different amounts needed, to give the correct change of view that is "normally seen" when moving. Yeah, I'm still looking for ways to improve "background", and with those memories, came one idea....no straight lines. This is why trees, and distant hills work so well, there's no straight lines to "lock" perspective........and yeah even that doesn't fix the problem of roads.
With enough depth of scene, roads could be risen to a hill crest, and extend just a bit behind the crest, so that at any normal viewing height, the road would simply "go over the hill", before "entering the backdrop".
I guess convincing "fades to backdrop" are among the "few good things" that do not come in narrow packages.
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