February 2008
Monthly Archive
Enable3D
Posted by 3Dfool on 28 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: 3D, Tech
NEC and Magnetic announced the creation of a new glasses free technology to display 3D content without any lose of resolution for 2D content. There are no details on what the system is doing, but if this is different than the lenticular based 3D screens found in other glasses free systems, this could be a huge boom to the 3D movement. I’m going to try to get more details on this system and add more as I find out.
Click here for the full story
Akira
Posted by 3Dfool on 22 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Animation, Movies
The 1988 Anime Classic, Akira based on the manga of the same name is being made into a live action feature film that is being produced by Leonardo DiCapiro of all folks. I’m very interested in seeing a better translation from the original comic to a film. While I loved the animated film, its story tried to cram some 15 hours of story into a 2 hour film and it suffered terribly from it. I’m excited to see another film, but I’m not sure live action or an American crew can do it justice. The director whose attached did a very interesting CG short film a few years ago called “Fifty Percent Grey” which is below the break.
For more info on this see the link to the Hollywood Reporter.
3D Camera Sensor
Posted by 3Dfool on 22 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: 3D, Cameras
So the guys at Stanford have come up with a CMOS sensor that takes an array of images and distills it into a deep pixel format image. Then you can extract multiple 3D depth images, refocus, recompose the final image. This would be an ultimate raw camera image. Only caveat is its sub resolution. If the sensor it 10 mega pixels, then a 10×10 array subdivides the resolution into 100 sub pictures. Not quite ready for prime time but this is very promising. Check the link for more detail.
Journey 3D Trailer
Posted by 3Dfool on 19 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: 3D, Movies
I’m sorry but this film looks bad. I saw this same trailer before the re-release of Nightmare before Christmas 3D. My professional opinion is this film will set the 3D movement back. The trailer was overwrought with frame violations too much parallax, and bad gimmicks. There was more eyestrain in this 2 minute trailer than I have seen in the last 20 years of 3D cinema. It might be a fun movie, but I think I will see it in 2D.
