01-04-2012, 04:31 AM
I always feel sad when people say 3D is a gimmick.
It can be gimmicky, yes. When it is done in post-processing, yes, it looks like shit and lowers the quality.
When it is done right, it can be absolutely breathtaking. If I had the money, I would purchase a 3D television just so I can experience Up, How to Train Your Dragon, Legends of the Guardian, and Avatar to their fullest - with the added benefit to gaming, probably the easiest conversion to 3D vision ever.
A film ought to be made with the intent for it to use 3D, not added as an aftereffect. The same way that adding color to a black and white image usually comes off as tacky (unless put in some very capable hands). To achieve the effect, it is best to take a full color image and desaturate it. Post-process compared to process.
With the films I mentioned before (and any CGI film, for that matter), depth was considered with the other elements of the aesthetics. CGI films are easily able to add and manipulate a second camera (used to a phenomenal, deeply moving effect in Up, where the depressing scenes within the house in the beginning reduced the depth to give it a more claustrophobic effect). Avatar was also filmed with cameras designed to imitate our perspective.
Post-processing 3D basically sends the film to an Asian workshop (I believe most of them are in South Korea, but don't quote me on that), where they literally cut the figures out and put them in photoshop layers. It's basically a shadowbox collage, which is why it looks dorky, tacky, and shitty.
Just because something has the capacity to be crap, just because 80% of its usage is crap, does not mean it is inherently crap.
Also, a great deal of the crappy 3D movies have nothing to do with the 3D with why they are crap. They are crap with a shoeshine, which still results in crap.
I would love to see some acclaimed director like Matrin Scorsese create a 3D film... see if they can get certified fresh and a 4/4 from Ebert. OH SHI-.
/rant
It can be gimmicky, yes. When it is done in post-processing, yes, it looks like shit and lowers the quality.
When it is done right, it can be absolutely breathtaking. If I had the money, I would purchase a 3D television just so I can experience Up, How to Train Your Dragon, Legends of the Guardian, and Avatar to their fullest - with the added benefit to gaming, probably the easiest conversion to 3D vision ever.
A film ought to be made with the intent for it to use 3D, not added as an aftereffect. The same way that adding color to a black and white image usually comes off as tacky (unless put in some very capable hands). To achieve the effect, it is best to take a full color image and desaturate it. Post-process compared to process.
With the films I mentioned before (and any CGI film, for that matter), depth was considered with the other elements of the aesthetics. CGI films are easily able to add and manipulate a second camera (used to a phenomenal, deeply moving effect in Up, where the depressing scenes within the house in the beginning reduced the depth to give it a more claustrophobic effect). Avatar was also filmed with cameras designed to imitate our perspective.
Post-processing 3D basically sends the film to an Asian workshop (I believe most of them are in South Korea, but don't quote me on that), where they literally cut the figures out and put them in photoshop layers. It's basically a shadowbox collage, which is why it looks dorky, tacky, and shitty.
Just because something has the capacity to be crap, just because 80% of its usage is crap, does not mean it is inherently crap.
Also, a great deal of the crappy 3D movies have nothing to do with the 3D with why they are crap. They are crap with a shoeshine, which still results in crap.
I would love to see some acclaimed director like Matrin Scorsese create a 3D film... see if they can get certified fresh and a 4/4 from Ebert. OH SHI-.
/rant
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If life gives you lemons, hand them to me!
I've got a great recipe for lemon meringue pie.
If life gives you lemons, hand them to me!
I've got a great recipe for lemon meringue pie.