Posts Tagged ‘3D Movies’

The UK Film Council, Sky and Skillset recently revealed a newly formed partnership that was created with the aim of developing and running a 3D training scheme for the UK film and TV industries. The scheme has a budget of £140,000 (around $221,000) and will pay for a wide variety of specialist training in the stereoscopic 3D format. The training course will be aimed towards professionals that are looking to improve their skills as well as offering basic training for people looking to move into 3D production.

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The newly established International 3D Society has recently announced its board members, a partnership with the People’s Choice Awards and the date of its inaugural awards ceremony. The organization was created January 21^st to recognize the achievements being made in the world of stereoscopic 3D content. The International 3D Society’s board officers are; Buzz Hayes (Sony 3D Technology centers chairman), Jim Mainard (DreamWorks Vice Chairman) and Lenny Lipton (First Vice Chairman for Oculus 3D). Members of the society include 3ality Digital’s Sandy Climan, Sony Imageworks’ Rob Engle, Salient Features’ Charlotte Huggins, Xpand’s Maria Costeira and more.

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Although we are only in the 2nd month of 2010, people worldwide have witnessed numerous displays of 3D success through; 3D movies, 3D sports and 3D games. So what’s next in line for 3D? It would appear that TV game shows are next on the list to get the 3D treatment.

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A built to order piece of 3D technology has recently been revealed. The Ikonoskop A-Cam3D is able to record two images as individual RAW files in DNG format at a resolution of 1920 x 1080p, which allows users to record 3D footage. The full details have yet to be revealed however the Ikonoskop technology is reported to support a color depth of 12-bits and has the ability to record at speeds of 25 to 30 frames per second. No price has been given for the camera, however due to the fact it is custom built, 3DGUY is assuming it will be fairly expensive.

Could 3D dominate this year’s Oscars? The nominations for the 82^nd Academy Awards have been revealed and three 3D movies were included in the line-up. Of course the world’s highest grossing film of all time Avatar was included, but two others made the list too, Disney/Pixar’s ‘Up’ and Henry Selick’s ‘Coraline’. See all the nominations in the read more.

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It’s been a long time coming, but movie goers can now expect a third Ghostbusters to be hitting the big screen soon. Ghostbusters 3 will also come with the added bonus of 3D. Ivan Reitman will be returning to the director’s chair and it looks as though most of the original cast will be on board too. According to reports, Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd will be back alongside Sigourney Weaver, who will be making her second 3D appearance of the new decade. Who ya gonna call? Stereographers!

Each of the major TV manufacturers launched 3D sets at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. 3D is the most popular thing at CES this year and obiviusly, its something that the electronics industry is embracing.

At the show, Sony has released a number of televisions and Blu-ray players that support new-fangled 3D.

The BDP-S770, which supports Multiview Video Encoding for 3D video and  built-in WiFi, will soon be available in summer 2010. It also has , DLNA support, an application that enables the iPhone and touch to be used as remote controls. Downloaded it from Apple’s App store for free!

source: hexus.net

Sony’s CEO, Taylor Swift, announced at the CES pres s conference this year some future plans. One is the teaming up of Discovery, Sony and IMAX to launch a 3D cable channel in 2011.

Richard Gelfond, the CEO of IMAX , stated in an interview, “Its really a dramatic push for 3d content. Sports channel are going 3D and more people are liking 3D. Avatar lead the way…”

The channel will be a 24/7 network dedicated to 3D. The companies are in talks of having history and adventure as its content, since Discovery specializes on it.

source: mashable.com

Samsung, DreamWorks Animation SKG and Technicolor recently announced their latest venture into the 3D realm. The three globally respected companies have formed a partnership with the aim of delivering a complete 3D home entertainment solution in 2010, the official year of next generation 3D technology. They have joined forces to help speed up the global deployment of in-home 3D to the consumer market.

The partnerships solution includes plans to release Samsungs latest technology, HD3D TV’s and 3D Blu-ray players, alongside an exclusive 3D Blu-ray promotion of DreamWorks Animation’s 3D cinema hit, ‘Monsters vs Aliens’, which will be produced by Technicolor. Other 3D content will be made available thanks to Samsungs HD3D displays ‘Internet@TV’ feature. A 3D short entitled ‘Bob’s Big Break’ as well as trailers for upcoming 3D animations by Dreamworks such as ‘How to Train your Dragon’ and ‘Shrek Forever After’ will be viewable on the new technology.

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