PERSPECTIVE FOR DIGITAL PRACTICE
For Digital Creatives
Perspective is fundamental to digital image-making and spatial design. It shapes how three-dimensional models are viewed, how virtual cameras construct images, how scenes are rendered and composited, how digital environments are navigated, and how artificial intelligence generates or interprets spatial imagery.
This gateway brings together existing Perspective Research Centre resources for people working across 3D modelling, CGI, visual effects, animation, games, virtual production, digital imaging, immersive media and AI-generated imagery.
Use the sections below to move directly into the areas most relevant to your practice, or explore the underlying perspective principles that connect them.
Explore by Creative Field
Direct links to existing PRC resources.
Computer Graphics, 3D & CGI
Explore digital modelling, virtual cameras, projection, rendering, computer-generated imagery and the construction of digital spatial worlds.
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VFX · COMPOSITING · VIRTUAL PRODUCTION
Cinema, VFX & Virtual Production
Examine camera space, movement, set design, compositing, CGI, visual effects and the combination of physical and digitally generated imagery.
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ANIMATION · MOTION · VIEWPOINT
Animation & Moving Images
Explore animated perspective, changing viewpoints, computer-generated motion and the representation of movement through successive images.
Explore Animation →
GAMES · REAL-TIME · INTERACTION
Games & Interactive Worlds
Investigate real-time perspective, moving virtual viewpoints, rendered game environments and the construction of explorable three-dimensional space.
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Virtual, Augmented & Extended Reality
Explore immersive and mixed environments in which perspective responds to tracked viewpoints, displays, virtual cameras and interaction.
Explore Extended Reality →
CAMERAS · DIGITAL IMAGING · SCREEN SPACE
Digital Imaging & Cameras
Understand camera viewpoint, projection, field of view, image formation, lenses, framing and the transformation of spatial reality into digital images.
Explore Camera View / Image →
GENERATIVE AI · SYNTHETIC IMAGERY
AI-Generated Images
Examine viewpoint, scale, spatial consistency, geometry and visual plausibility in images generated, extended or transformed by artificial intelligence.
Explore AI-Generated Images →
DIGITAL · COMPUTATIONAL · NETWORKED MEDIA
Digital & New Media Perspective
Explore the wider category connecting digital imaging, computer graphics, AI, immersive media, interactive systems and computational perspective.
Explore New Media Perspective →
UNDERLYING PERSPECTIVE PRINCIPLES
Understand What the Software Is Doing
Digital tools automate many perspective operations, but the underlying relationships remain fundamental: viewpoint, viewing direction, projection, field of view, object and image space, scale, foreshortening, vanishing, distortion and the transformation of three-dimensional spatial information into views and images.
Understanding these principles makes it easier to diagnose visual problems, choose projection systems, control cameras, match images and design more convincing spatial representations.