The Future of Film-Making
Yesterday I saw the 3D version of _Nightmare Before Christimas_.
I was awestruck by the quality, smoothness, realism, and color-values of the process. This is NOT the primitive, gimmicky, and color-distorting old 3D some of you may be familiar with from the 1950's and 1960's. This is, with the one limitation that the point of view is fixed, as good as a hologram.
Pixar has already done a short (shown with the main film) and a second movie (shown in previews) using this process. It's obviously easy to do with CGI (all you need is to solve the equations for two separate points-of-view and integrate them using the 3D glasses); it could be done live-action using two cameras (Nightmare Before Christmas was originally mostly stop-action animated anyway); broadcasting it as a signal would not be especially challenging using HDTV; the cost of the required glasses would be trivial. And the improvement of picture quality and realism is immense.
It seems likely, therefore, that unlike the old 3D this process will be come into general use. I was priveleged to see the future of film making, in its very first incarnation. And this was made possible solely by the love and caring of Rosanna, who treated me to this film.
Thank you, darling girl.
Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone,
Jordan
PS - When I got back home, one of the people who run the hostel had prepared a big turkey dinner and was sharing, so I also got to have turkey for Thanksgiving. Yummy!
I was awestruck by the quality, smoothness, realism, and color-values of the process. This is NOT the primitive, gimmicky, and color-distorting old 3D some of you may be familiar with from the 1950's and 1960's. This is, with the one limitation that the point of view is fixed, as good as a hologram.
Pixar has already done a short (shown with the main film) and a second movie (shown in previews) using this process. It's obviously easy to do with CGI (all you need is to solve the equations for two separate points-of-view and integrate them using the 3D glasses); it could be done live-action using two cameras (Nightmare Before Christmas was originally mostly stop-action animated anyway); broadcasting it as a signal would not be especially challenging using HDTV; the cost of the required glasses would be trivial. And the improvement of picture quality and realism is immense.
It seems likely, therefore, that unlike the old 3D this process will be come into general use. I was priveleged to see the future of film making, in its very first incarnation. And this was made possible solely by the love and caring of Rosanna, who treated me to this film.
Thank you, darling girl.
Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone,
Jordan
PS - When I got back home, one of the people who run the hostel had prepared a big turkey dinner and was sharing, so I also got to have turkey for Thanksgiving. Yummy!