I'm still guessing that it was a real background and converted by a gradient depth map. not a 3D(imensional) movie - as we take the context of stereoscopic 3D movies from the black and white days of 3D Photography/movies thru to today's cinematography to mean.Ĥ) Your assumption that I did or did not know whether the ground (pebbled) path was CG or real was ALREADY admitted by me in my document. they are not) -Īny how - 2D to 3D has been acknowledged as a toolset only and hopefully will benefit everyone interested.Ģ) The answer document has very craftily taken Everything that can be (are?) good with stereoscopic 3D camera capture ( true specularity.reflections etc, and managed to make them sound like shortcomings! - how about french flags for lens flares in 2D? or polarizing filters on 2D cameras - should they be any different for 3D camera capture? I can't allow myself to clarfy these further so I will pass.ģ) Most Important - 2D to 3D conversions are creating a 'paper world' devoid of the true representation of what is captured stereoscopically - At best I will call conversions a 2.5D movie. This was my Main Gripe with everything (about 2D to 3D being superior! and some other conversion houses even said that 3D movies should be shot 2d and converted _ I initially made a mistake and thought that In-Three was the ones saying all movies should be shot 2d. They had previously said that 2D to 3D conversions 'can not only be as good as dual-camera capture - but far superior.' Although they did say at that time as well, that its also a good tool. Thank you for the rather nice and well written response and article, I will only give my input in points.ġ) The Biggest and happiest point that has been made in the Answer document by In-Three is the admission that conversions are a Tool, or toolset for presentation of 3 Dimensional movies. In return to their answer, please find our quoted reply below: Since that document, one of the very good 3D conversion studios, did take the time to answer.

Or can be downloaded from the RealVisionwebsite here: Download Here is a document that we believe is the reason that newer 3D films if they feature real world scenario SHOULD be captured with a stereoscopic 3D camera system and not shot in 2D and converted later:

We are having an ongoing debate on other forums such as LinkedIN on the current state of 3Dimensional Movie production and presentation.

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