On january 31 I will present some 3D Chase tests during the Clermont-Ferrand Filmfestival. It’s a weird process: I don’t have proper 3D monitors branched to my computer. Too expensive. Cinema 4D, the software I work with gives me the option to watch the 3d effect with anaglyph 3D glasses.
After I have changed my virtual camera’s into 3d camera’s (a camera with 2 lenses, 1 for the right, one for the left eye), I put on my stupid cardboard red and blue glasses. It gives at least an impression of how the 3rd dimension will be perceived. When I am satisfied with the result, I render (calculate) the images, one movie for each eye. The next step is the be find downstairs. I can watch the rendered files in ‘real’ 3D, with real colors on our 3D flatscreen TV. I think the set is very nice but we don’t often watch 3d films on it. It gives Liesbeth headaches. So I would be obliged to watch during daytime because the TV is occupied after dawn. But watching during daylight is too tiresome. It’s true that 3d is still in it’s infancy, the headaches are not uncommon, but as with children (I presume, I don’t have them), that does’t keep people from loving it.
When I am happy with what I saw on 3D-TV, the next step is into my car, to drive for an hour and test the film in the real cinema. If I don’t like what I see, the process repeats itself. Just until 13 minutes of flat film has gained in depth.
If by chance you have a set of anaglyph glasses, this is what you see in 3D as I see it when I am editing the camera:
