Designing for Fiction: A Sense of Human Proportion by Phaeton99, literature
Literature
Designing for Fiction: A Sense of Human Proportion
If there is one issue I consistently take with contemporary sci-fi, it is its oft questionable notions of "good design". If done well, weak material can be elevated to credibility, but when it is done poorly, even the best, most expensive productions can seem cheap and silly.
Here, I am going to address one of the most essential aspects that can make or break all else: a sense of proportion.
Fundamentally speaking, our sense of proportion ultimately begins with ourselves, our perceptions of the world measured against the familiar scale of our own bodies and activities. Buildings, vehicles, the world around us: we often only appreciate s