Our emails are made to shine in your inbox, with something fresh every morning, afternoon, and weekend. A common practice for boosting ticket sales, done by both domestic and Hollywood film producers, is to use 3D effects.
The Jason Bourne franchise is known for its shaky-camera style , making the movies somewhat unpleasant to watch in 3D. The new Jason Bourne movie was shot in 2D, and was converted to 3D post production. In North America, the UK, and other European markets, the film is only available in 2D format, according to movietickets. In mainland China, where filmmakers cater to the second-largest movie market in the world, huge investments and big casts are employed to whip up enthusiasm among moviegoers.
The Monkey King is being targeted at Western audiences. Smoke blows, laser lights flash, and psyched-up fans wave their glow sticks. Such are the scenes we've all come to expect at a rock concert, and in the future, thanks to 3D cinema, we'll be able to experience it up close and personal-in the comfortable surroundings of a movie theater, no less! Taiwan's film industry is not by any means watching the 3D hullabaloo from the sidelines. Also, Pili International Multimedia recently announced it was collaborating with the National Center for High-Performance Computing, a division of the National Applied Research Laboratories, to make the world's first 3D film of a puppet theater performance.
To be released in at the earliest, the story line would be based on the tale of the Third Prince Nezha, a character in the Ming-Dynasty Daoist epic Canonization of the Gods.
For the project, Hsu has recruited the services of outstanding Taiwanese cinema professionals working in Hollywood, such as Daniel Chen, who was part of the post-production team for Avatar. So it would seem that the 3D spark is about to light a prairie fire, but veterans in the industry haven't forgotten that 3D cinema already has a past, and it has involved no few false starts. During years of cinematic history, the first 3D experiment took place in when William Friese-Greene showed stereoscopic movies by projecting identical images simultaneously side by side on the screen.
He had audiences wear special anaglyph glasses with complementary red- and green-tinted lenses, and relied on the mind's natural image processing to synthesize the two images into one. The first commercial 3D cinematic effort came in with The Power of Love, and there were spates of 3D film releases in the s and the s.
The peak years were from to , when Hollywood turned out over 50 3D films. The s saw the release of Prior to the release of Avatar in , The Stewardess boasted the highest profit margin in the history of 3D movies. Taiwan's first 3D film, Super Dragon, was a martial arts flick made in by noted director Chang Mei-chun. Many older moviegoers vividly recall how the daggers and flying guillotines seemed to come right at the audience.
The fresh new visual experience made the film a huge hit. This technique makes it possible to produced animated characters with movements and facial expressions that are every bit as subtle as those of a human actor. Shown here is Reuben Langdon, the stunt man who stood in as Jake in Avatar.
In this photo, Langdon is doing a motion-capture scene for the popular video game Resident Evil 5. His face is blanketed with sensors in order to capture all the subtleties of human facial expressions. What we are seeing in is thus the third 3D movie craze following earlier surges of popularity in the s and 70s.
Will it be just another flash in the pan? Or will 3D this time around become mainstream? Optimists in the industry argue that "this ain't your granddaddy's 3D," and claim that today's digital technology is a game changer. In the analog era, producing a 3D film was an extremely laborious process, because two cameras had to shoot every scene simultaneously, and movie theaters had to haul out not just one bulky reel, but two, and if they weren't synchronized perfectly, the lag between the left and right images defeated the whole purpose of 3D.
Now that everything is digitized, and computer-controlled stereoscopic filming software is easily available, it is a simple matter to simultaneously record video and audio, and to reproduce, edit, and save it to memory. The time required for producing a 3D movie, and the associated risks, have been dramatically reduced. And on top of that are advances in projection equipment. High-quality polarized and shutter projection technology and newly developed 3D movie glasses see side article on "3D TV Explained" have replaced the red-green anaglyph technology of the past.
The new methods provide audiences with 3D images that are both realistic and easy on the eyes. Many different factors have thus combined to create a much stronger survival niche for the current wave of 3D movies.
The 3D feature films Don Quixote and The Monkey King are the handiwork of noted mainland Chinese director Ah Gan real name: Liu Xiaoguang , who says that 3D films are attractive to studios because they are pirate-proof. In China, where pirating is rampant, this is no small consideration. There was virtually nothing filmmakers could do before about piracy, but moviegoers wanting the full effect of 3D have no other choice than to go to a theater and pony up a premium of at least one-third over the normal ticket price.
In some cases, the price is twice that of an ordinary movie! That explains why 3D screens are being installed throughout China at the rate of 1. By the time Don Quixote is released in October, there should be over 2, 3D movie theaters in China. Says Ah Gan: "Prospects are looking good! During a forum on 3D cinema at the Taipei Film Festival in July, he stated that 3D images will become something you just expect in movies as a matter of course, just like Dolby Sensurround.
Logo text. Related Stories. Jon M. Chu Jon M. All Rights reserved. No, in that traditional flat panel TVs with 3D functionality have been discontinued by most manufacturers.
The only thing keeping them alive is theatrical releases until a manufacturer introduces a new generation of 4K TVs with 3D to differentiate them from the marketplace. Is there any hope of this coming? Answer: You answered your own question. First, theatrical releases keeping 3D alive is still very much a big business, even in the United States, and this is besides the strong base of those who regularly import new titles on Blu-ray 3D.
I used one in Germany some years ago but they went bankrupt. Do you know any offshore 3D conversion companies that do quality work at a low cost? Much thanks for your help!
Answer: Here is a company that it isn't clear where they're located or their prices, but they are likely cheaper:. Answer: So far I'm only aware of two 3D digital copy providers for premium content.
Vudu offers half-resolution side by side 3D movies, but the prices are too high making it more logical to buy a better quality 3D Blu-ray. They also disabled 3D playback ability on all but a few older devices, making even people with modern 3D projectors or 3D phones unable to watch them, and no new 3D movies have been added in a couple of years, meaning they probably abandoned it.
The other 3D streaming provider would be for the Red Hydrogen One 3D phone, but again, there are no recent movies and the prices are exorbitant. There was a smart TV app called 3D Crave that enabled rentals of some 3D movies and shorts, but they were bought by Rokit, who have a 3D streaming service for their 3D phones. They announced some time ago that they would soon come to an agreement to rent major Hollywood 3D movies alongside their independent 3D content, but that looks to have fallen through.
What you're describing is the holy Grail of all things 3D, and it would blow the industry open if available. Even today's twin lens 3D cameras can't calculate completely accurate depth maps from a 3D image. Maybe you are in the twilight zone lol. Or the future! Well, its more than that because you can actually see the ball come at you when thrown toward the screen.
AND I am not one to easily be conned. I am a natural septic. Have you seen the LG 60" 3D picture in person. They may not still sell the one I have as I got it about 5 years ago. Maybe from the Twilight Zone. In answer to your question, yes an automated 3D conversion will look blurry without glasses and clear with. However that doesn't mean it's really 3D. For instance: If I take a photograph and move it back a little, maybe even bend or curve it, it will have dimensionality to it, but there will still be no separation between elements, a person and the wall behind them.
Another example: I can take a black and white image and make the whole thing look green. Yes, technically now it is 'color', but it's without regard for the content. Automated 3D features are similar. They don't typically degrade the picture. They may even add a little 'life' to it, and some enjoy that. But what I'm saying is that it doesn't hold a candle to manual 3D conversion. It was inexpensive and actually cheaper than the non-3D version.
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