Peter Jackson - Dambusters in 3D, Red ??

[Andrew Mark Fordham]

News that Peter Jackson hopes to be filming the DamBusters in 3D, would this be with a red ? They are reportedly in tests ...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a168734/peter-jackson-hopes-for-dam-busters-in-3d.html

 

[Kwan Khan]

Hum......

 

[David Wyatt]

Bouncing Bombs in 3D!!! :emote_popcorn:...:yikes:

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

How could they give LOTR "3D treatment"??

Bogus article or am I missing something?

 

[Jonathan Stevenson]

I don't see why he wouldn't shoot Red. From what I've heard, he plans on only using Red from here on out.

 

[Eric Maran]

How could they give LOTR "3D treatment"??

Bogus article or am I missing something?

They're going back and giving a lot of films post-3D treatment. Titanic will be first up by Mr Cameron.

I'm curious how they do it... I've heard it's an expensive process. Must be some kind of warped compositing deal.

 

[M Most]

They're going back and giving a lot of films post-3D treatment. Titanic will be first up by Mr Cameron.

Actually, "G-Force," which is currently in theaters, is a 3D conversion for all of the live action material (in other words, anything that was photographed). The CG elements were rendered as left and right eye, but the live action was all shot 2D and converted.

I'm curious how they do it... I've heard it's an expensive process. Must be some kind of warped compositing deal.

A 3D stereo conversion basically requires you to synthesize left and right eye views from a single POV. This is done with a combination of techniques, but basically a depth map is created for everything in the scene that is being "dimensionalized" (I hesitate to use that term because I believe it's a registered trademark of In-Three, but it is a good, descriptive term). This is done by using a matchmoved 3D camera, 3D stand-in geometry, lots and lots of rotoscoping for each object to be individually adjusted, and hand painting/cloning techniques to replace the parts of objects that are revealed due to the parallax being created by adding depth. The image is then displaced in the left and right directions based on the depth map, and separately rendered for left and right eye. This will all sound complicated to some people, and relatively simple to others, but the bottom line is that it requires a lot of knowledge, a lot of talent, and a lot of time and people to be done right. There are very few companies that do this kind of work at the level expected by studio clients. Some that come to mind are In-Three, Sassoon Film Design, Sony Imageworks, and one or two others. Digital Domain has done a lot of this kind of work on past projects (the 3D release of the Disney animated picture "Meet The Robinsons" was converted by DD, the original version done at Disney was 2D) but not recently, as far as I know.