Posts Tagged ‘2d to 3d’

After much speculation, it seems that James Cameron’s blockbuster Titanic will indeed receive 3D treatment and be released in April 2012 on the 100th anniversary of the ship’s tragic sinking, confirmed by an article that ran in the LA Times this week.

But the more interesting question at hand is: Can the post-production conversion process take a flat film and give it more depth as well as more box office legs? Read the rest of this entry »

One of Japans biggest selling movies of all time is currently being prepared to undergo the 2D to 3D conversion process. Kinji Fukasaku’s cult movie ‘Battle Royale’ will be converted from 2D to 3D by the Japanse studio ‘Toei’.
Battle Royale (released in 2000) grossed around $26 million in Japan and was sold and distributed to over 35 countries worldwide. The 3D version of Battle Royale will be released for market screenings this October and will be released in movie theaters across Japan on November 20th, 2010.
The movies director Kinji Fukasaku unfortunately passed away in 2003. His son, Kenta Fukasaku will be supervising the 2D to 3D conversion of his fathers popular movie in Tokyo, through the production company ‘Fukasaku-Gumi’.

This month’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas witnessed an uprising of 3D technology. 3D displays, 3D Blu-ray and 3D computers dominated the technological show. Samsung, Panasonic, LG, Sony and Mitsubishi all previewed their upcoming next generation technology. However, one manufacturer’s 3D display effortlessly stood out from the crowd, the Toshiba ZX900 Cell TV. The Toshiba ZX900 Cell TV is an innovative piece of technology that utilizes technologies and varying features never before seen on a television before. Here’s a breakdown of what makes the ZX900 so special. Read the rest of this entry »

While at the Dimension 3 Forum in Pantin, France we took a 3D course by Bernard Mendiburu, a Digital Stereographer and writer, and then afterwards interviewed him about his book and his 3D course. Bernard Mendiburu is a digital artist who specializes in visual effects, digital cinema technologies, and 3D. He took part of Disney’s animated feature film, Meet the Robinsons, and has recently wrote a book on 3D called “3D Movie Making: Stereoscopic Digital Cinema from Script to Screen”, which is available in paperback and also as an electronic download to the Amazon Kindle. The paperback version includes a DVD which comes with various 2D and 3D images that demonstrate concepts and techniques, Adobe After Effects project files, a resource list of software tools, and tutorials that demonstrate an array of 3D techniques. Mastering 3D Post-Production was the name of Bernard’s 3D course at the Dimension 3 Expo this year. It’s focus was on presenting the workflow that is specific to post-production stereoscopic 3D projects and understanding the new methods and tools that are needed for editing 3D in the digital post-production phase. The training was fourteen-hours long held over 2 days (June 5th and 6th 2009) with only 10 trainees allowed to participant, and took place in Sèvres, Paris area of France. The “Mastering 3D Post-Production” workshop covered an introduction to 3D, filming errors to avoid, basics of stereoscopic 3D, filming to editing stage including the user interface systems, tools, workflow, and editing software needed, and practical exercises were giving for editing 3D projects. More information on Bernard Mendiburu can be found on his website http://mendiburu.net.