Forced perspective as an advertising technique

Forced Perspective is a technique used in film and advertising that plays with scale. It often uses sets and simulations to make objects appear a different scale than they are, or to create an illusion of space. Here's a link in Wikipedia about forced perspective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_perspective

some examples in animation techniques:
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/strange/workshop/atmosphere.htm




Here's an image from Lorey B. , a teacher in Georgia. She sends me creative advertising images. This is another example, except the reality is actually smaller than the simulation.

-sam smiley