Articles in the Stereoscopic 3D Category
Stereoscopic 3d Virtual Sets on a budget
Stereoscopic 3D Virtual Sets and Stages:
One of the ongoing projects at the 3D Lab, twofour54 is R&D into stereoscopic 3D virtual sets and production workflows.
While Virtual Sets have been around for some time now, true …
Stereoscopic 3D Lab at twofour54, opens it’s doors.
The Stereoscopic 3D Lab at twofour54:
RealVision is S3D consultant to twofour54 and was appointed to create the region’s first Stereoscopic 3D Lab. The 3D Lab aims to foster best practices in stereoscopic 3d production and …
3D Heartburn – No time to digest the visuals.
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What is 3D Heart Burn?
Last week I went to see the epic Transformers 3D. As someone who has had a brief past with animation software (Newtek’s Lightwave), I had to appreciate the talent …
2D to 3D Conversion’s biggest enemy…Parallax.
2D to 3D Quality Control:
2D to 3D has come a long way since the initial fiasco that was Clash of the Titans. Today’s converted movies are seemingly acceptable to most. Only the most “victorian” of Stereographers …
Understanding the use of Stereo 3D in movies: Geography, Emotion and Dwell time.
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Establishing Scene Geography and using “Dwell time”.
Are there any memorable scenes that we can recall with photographic clarity from the slew of 3D movies …
3DQC: What does a Stereo 3D QC (quality controller) do?
Everyone wants to be a Stereographer:
With more and more stereoscopic 3D productions underway, there is no doubt that talent and expertise is in short supply to create Stereo3D (S3D) content to fulfill the current demand. …
Why Ad Agencies and Brands need to know Stereoscopic 3D…part 2
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Advertising and Marketing Departments need to know good Stereoscopic 3D:
In a previous article we had addressed the subject of why an AD Agencie’s creative department needs to know a thing or …
ETO (eye time out) and SAT (senses accommodation time) in 3D movies
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3D Movie Hurt Index:
While the entire movie industry comes to terms with using the medium of stereoscopic 3D as a new means of visual storytelling, the “beta testers”, i.e the audiences, are the ones …
Realtime Stereoscopic 3D Green Screen keying on location.
Real time Chroma Keying in Stereoscopic 3D:
Here’s the dilemma: Productions are now all going stereoscopic 3D. (the word stereoscopic should suffice, but we add 3D to prevent ambiguity), and there is a need to preview …
Stereoscopic 3D Cinematography; Zooming in 3D.
Performing a virtual camera zoom in stereoscopic 3D
The Camera Zoom in Stereoscopic 3D
In Stereoscopic 3D Cinematography, doing a zoom will “compress” or Flatten depth. This is due to the nature of telephoto (zoom lenses). You normally …
What goes into a good Stereographer Showreel?
The all important Showreel:
A “Stereographer” is an entirely new job profile in modern day movie making. The term itself as well as the job profile has been around since the first 3D movies came about, …
