Archive for June, 2009

Guillaume Klein, a Meant To Be Seen (MTBS) 3D member tells us about TrackMania, which is a free downloadable series of car racing PC games that run on Windows (or Nintendo DS) and was created by the French team, Nadeo. What makes this game so popular is that you can edit a lot of the content from the game. You can edit or create your tracks for racing in the game, edit the featuers of your car, and, among other things, you can use a video editor in the game and reproduce stereoscopic 3D content of the game content which can be outputted from the game into a video format. The game is a normal 2D PC game but it has a 3D mode within that game that the player can enable, allowing the game to be displayed in either traditional red/blue anaglyph that require the red/blue glasses to view or a stereoscopic display mode is available. This last option, the stereoscopic 3D mode, can be enabled if you have a 3D monitor like the Zalman 3D monitor which will use and will be providing a follow up piece on shortly at 3D Guy. Guillaume produced some video footage from the TrackMania games that he has played and recoreded them in stereoscopic 3D format, not the red/blue anaglyph, using his own, personal video editing software. These videos are available from the Meant To Be Seen (MTBS) 3D forums, on Guillaume’s BlackSharkfr YouTube channel and we are also displaying them here on 3D Guy on our TrackMania Stereoscopic 3D post. We have more interviews from the Dimension 3 Expo near Paris, France with Meant To Be Seen (MTBS) 3D members as well as others in the field of 3D. Stay tune for more updates! Be sure to subscribe to our RSS Feed or friend us on Facebook and Twitter to keep up-to-date with the latest videos and news! More information about TrackMania and for download is available at their website: http://www.trackmania.com Meant To Be Seen (MTBS) 3D : http://www.mtbs3d.com And our initial video interview with Meant To Be Seen (MTBS) 3D founder, Neil Schneider, can be found here: Meant To Be Seen 3D at Dimension 3 Expo

Jason Goodman is the founder and CEO of 21st Century 3D and stereography for the 2009 3D movie, Call of the Wild 3D, on location in Montana of last year. Jason designed a 3D beam splitter rig for the movie, Call of the Wild 3D, called the BX1, which is “one of the smallest and lightest self-contained 3D beam splitter cameras available.”1 The EX1 3D beam splitter rig system was then improved upon and re-designed to create the EX2 3D beam splitter rig, which “…is primarily being designed to accommodate larger, higher- resolution cameras, including the RED One, the Arri D21, the Phantom, and the Sony EX3.” 1 The EX2 3D beam splitter rig system is built for practicality taking various factors into consideration for it’s consideration: operation, moving and carrying the gig, putting it on steady cams, shipping it, etc. to make it as light and sturdy as possible while allowing it to have all the adjustability you would need at the same time. The EX2 3D beam splitter rig system is the first stereoscopic recording device available for sale or rent through 21st Century 3D and was being shown at the Cine Gear Expo, a Film and Digital Media Conference in Los Angeles that took place in early June.3 However, we have a couple photos of a dual Sony PMW EX3 on  the EX2 3D beam splitter rig system. As stated on their website, 21st Century 3D “is a full-service stereoscopic 3D motion picture production company located in New York City. … From production to presentation, our experts provide the best options to suit your technical requirements and budget.”2 Their clients include LG Electronics, Bose, Canon, Saatchi and Saatchi, JVC, Motorcola, New Line Cinema, and more. 1 http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/the-3dvx 2 http://www.21stcentury3d.com 3 http://www.cinegearexpo.com

CALL OF THE WILD 3D “Call of the Wild” is a modern-day story incorporating elements of Jack London’s classic short novel. Christopher Lloyd stars as a recently widowed man living in Montana who takes his young granddaughter Ryann (Ariel Gade) in for several weeks while her parents are out of the country. When a wild hybrid wolf/dog shows up injured on the back porch one night, Ryann wants to take him back to Boston as a pet, but her grandfather knows the animal will eventually have to return to the wild. To help his granddaughter understand, he begins to read her Jack London’s “Call of the Wild” each night … but Ryann has ideas of her own, and helps a local boy train the magnificent animal to become a sled dog leader. Timothy Bottoms plays a dark-hearted local bully who tries to claim the dog as his own, and Wes Studi stars as a mysterious mountain man who always seems to appear on the fringe of the action.

Richard Gabai “Call of the Wild 3D” is Independent Filmmaker Richard Gabai’s first foray into 3D Other recent projects include “Supercross” with Sophia Bush, Mike Vogel, and Robert Patrick and “Moto-X-Kids” with Josh Henderson – both released by Fox; “Miracle Dogs Too” with Charles Durning, Leslie Ann Warren, Janine Turner and David Keith – which currently airs on Starz and Showtime; “American Black Beauty” with Dean Stockwell, and “Popstar” relased by New Line Cinema and currently airng on Fuse TV. Born in New York and raised in Southern California where he received his degree in Journalism from USC, Richard lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

Neil Schneider, founder of Meant To Be Seen 3D (MTBS3D), agrees that the industry of stereoscopic 3D gaming has been growing by leaps and bounds, especially in the last few years and thanks to iZ3D and NVIDIA and other software, monitors, and 3D products. Neil Schneider founded Meant To Be Seen 3D (MTBS3D) an online community that is said to be the largest 3D community today. Meant To Be Seen’s mission statement from their website is “… to promote and foster superior game immersion and visual beauty, and the only way to do that is through stereoscopic 3D technology.” An overview of the Meant To Be Seen community’s purpose is: To advocate and educate consumers and game developers so stereoscopic 3D; To certify video games in the marketplace and in development; To develop and promote programming standards; To endorse and benefit game engines; To offer membership discounts on Stereoscopic 3D products, services, and compatible software; and to add a new level of FUN to the gaming community. The MTBS3D Community has a video games focus but finds that gamers are given complete immersion in the gaming world and shows that there is in deed a demand for 3D and that the spread of 3D is possible and the community gives birth to converting many regular 2D gamers into 3D gamers to further spread the possibilities of 3D technology and innovation, from a completely consumer driven organization. One of the advantages of 3D Festivals like the Dimension 3 Expo or the 3DX Festival in Singapore back in November of 2008, is that it provides a place for the consumer and producer of 3D to come together and meet, interact, and discuss the current and future of the Art of 3D. At the D3 Forum in Pantip, France, members of MTBS3D did just that. Since a large portion of their membership is from Europe the D3 Forum in France provided a meeting ground for some of the members who only knew each other through their online Meant To Be Seen community. Stay tune to further videos from the Dimension 3 Forum in France and interviews with some of the MTBS3D community. Stay tune to 3D Guy for interviews with MTBS 3D members and additional footage from the Dimension 3 Forum outside of Paris, France!

Disney Pixar Toy Story 3 in 3D (2010) Trailer

Dimension 3 Forum in France is covered by Al Caudullo. Dimension 3 Expo is held in Seine-Saint-Denis, France, minutes from Paris at the Centre National De La Danse in Pantin. Dimension 3 Expo is a forum presented for professionals in France and abroad to discuss, learn, and play with advancements in 3D in the realms of Film, Television, Advertising, Mobile Applications, Video Games, and more for the present and future. For converage from the Dimension 3 Expo, exclusive interviews and video from Paris presented in High Definition, stay tune to 3D Guy.  Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed, Twitter, or Facebook to stay aprized of the latest updates in the world of 3D!