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Ryan Maxwell
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Ah, Paris...someone should put the Bat signal at the end of that beam of light.
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Evoking Paris brings up one of the elements I most enjoyed about the design of Gotham City in the Burton Batman movies. With a father was was a town planner and at one time head of Zoning for the City of Calgary, I was very appreciative of the idea that the Zoning Board in Gotham pretty much didn't exist, and builders could not only make their structures as tall as they wanted, but also build out over the street, if they were so inclined. Talk about an urban nightmare!

Paris -- along with a few other cities (including Washington DC) look as they do because of regulations that limit the height of buildings in certain areas, or even across the whole city.

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I remember being up in the Eiffel Tower and looking out and being able to see everywhere!  It seemed to go out to the horizon.  It was a strange feeling after being in other cities.  At the time it seemed to be the biggest city in the world.  Of course it was the biggest one I'd ever been in up to that time!  
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Love that shot of DC -- you can see my house from there!
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Lars Johansson
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Wasn't the Batman movie shot in England with some real cityscapes at least partially?
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Which one Lars?
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Charles Tyus
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I find that picture funny that the artist "had" to detail the sole of BATMAN's boot to what? Give it "realism"? Yet the perspective.....
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Brian Miller
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Yet the perspective.....

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There's nothing wrong with the perspective in the piece. It's the choice of having all the buildings the same height that is being called into question.
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Charles Tyus
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You are correct. I should have said, "yet the cityscape...."


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http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=22902
claims the cover is Lee/Williams but those buildings don't look like Lee's
style to me. I wonder if the background was added.

Anton Furst designed the Gotham of Burton's films. I was fascinated by his
work on it when the film came out in '89 and recall it was done in
miniature of varying scales and as facades.


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Martin Redmond
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The background must've definitely been added afterwards. I don't think Scott Williams would've handed in a cityscape with all the lineweights that equal. Maybe it was a google sketchup job. Whoever did this could've sank some buildings lower below the ground plane next time. ;}
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John Papandrea
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A Turner cityscape and two by Jim Lee.

 

 

 
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