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Screen Rant testing: First Ever Look At Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D

  • Heath · 1 year ago
    James Cameron himself wrote about the technology in this month's HD Video Pro magazine. He's on the cover--check it out!

    heath
  • Ed · 1 year ago
    Hurray! I've totally been in love with the 3D (or as I prefer, RealD, per one of the 3D company's name), and am glad to see so much support and adoption for the technology.

    This isn't the same as the red/blue glasses (or red/green for you Europeans) folks, this stuff looks fantastic and gives the movie a totally different look.

    Here's an explanation on how technology works for anyone who's interested (from Cinemark):

    To create a 3D effect on a movie screen, there are actually two images – one for the right eye and one for the left eye. As humans, this is how we see 3D. Each eyeball sees a slightly different image; the brain fuses these two separate images together to form a single image having depth. A realistic digital 3D system replicates the way a human eye perceives depth by delivering a separate image to each eye. The brain does the rest by fusing the right and left mages together and allowing us to see a single image that has depth.

    The 3D images are “decoded” by viewers wearing comfortable, lightweight glasses that are similar to sunglasses. With these special glasses, movie-goers can enjoy realistic 3D effects that can only be seen in movie theatres equipped with the special 3D digital projectors and specially made silver screens.

    Content for 3D films are created several different ways. First, films produced using computer-generated imagery (CGI)—such as many animated features – are naturally created in 3D. Another way to capture a 3D image is by using two cameras, side-by-side, to take two streams of content – one for each eye. Finally, 3D content can be created by converting traditional 2D content to 3­D during the post-production phase. This 2D to 3D conversion process is a viable solution for existing films.

    Source:
    http://www.cinemark.com/digitaledge.asp
  • avoidz · 1 year ago
    Sounds interesting (the technology, not the movie), but still gimmicky.

    Is everyone happy wearing "comfortable, lightweight glasses"? How the heck is this going to translate to home video versions?

    Just bring on Avatar and let's see what this 3D Fusion camera tech can really do :)
  • Jim Dorey · 1 year ago
    The gimmicks will be nice for awhile but it will wear out fast so I hope it is not overdone with these higher budget movies as there will be plenty of lower budget movies made with them. 3D must be done RIGHT this time around. I think there is enough momentum to really make a huge difference this time in Hollywood and I see a new standard for making films. Even dramas.
  • Screen Rant · 1 year ago
    Jim, my impression from the demonstration is that this time it WILL be done right. :-)

    Only time will tell, but it seems to me to be the next logical progression in the movie theater experience.

    Now if they could do away with those glasses... (and the technology IS being developed for that, but it's not ready for prime time).

    Vic
  • Jim Dorey · 2 months ago
    The gimmicks will be nice for awhile but it will wear out fast so I hope it is not overdone with these higher budget movies as there will be plenty of lower budget movies made with them. 3D must be done RIGHT this time around. I think there is enough momentum to really make a huge difference this time in Hollywood and I see a new standard for making films. Even dramas.