Gravity 3D Pushed Back to 2013
Warner Bros Pictures is pushing back the release date of "Gravity" to 2013. Directed by Alfonso Cuaron (who also directed Children of Men), Gravity will have a 17 minutes long opening shot and will be 60% CGI. Many very long shot are on the 2-hour long program with only 156 shots overall.
Highway to Hell 3D
Highway to Hell is a 3D stereoscopic horror movie directed by Richard Driscoll. Highway to Hell is a story like no other where the Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets The Wild West when two Las Vegas entertainers end up in the town of Eldorado. Watch Peter O'Toole and Daryl Hannah guide you through this story as the horror engulfs our heroes. Will they be eaten alive by the town's occupants or will they manage to escape?
Duration: 90 minutes. Highway to Hell is on IMDB (with very light info available as for now) and will be released on July 23, 2012 in Blu-ray 3D on Amazon UK.
"Cave Story 3D" Japanese Version
Nippon Ichi will release Cave Story 3D on the Ninitendo 3DS console in Japan on July 26, 2012. Just like the North American release dated November, 2011, Cave Story 3D features 3D CGI models, expanded areas, and stereoscopic 3D graphics.
To promote the game in Japan, Nippon Ichi hired pop artist Shinonoko to create new artwork for Cave Story 3D. The Japanese version of Cave Story 3D will have additional content as Nippon Ichi included retro game collaborations with content from Ikki, Dragon Slayer, and Crazy Climber.
Left: New Artwork for Japan; right: classic artwork in the US version by Nicalis
3D Film Mart Call for Projects
If you are a producer of stereoscopic 3D movies or a producer of 2D movies considering making your next movie in stereoscopic 3D, we invite you to submit your 3D movie projects to the 2012 3D Film Mart (3DFM), which is the first co-production market for stereoscopic 3D movies in Europe and beyond.
3DFM is sponsored by the MEDIA Programme of the European Commission. 3DFM will take place in Liège, Belgium, on December 4-5, 2012 during our overall 3D Stereo MEDIA event. In 2011, they received 60 projects, for a total budget of about 250,000,000 €. 3DFM is intended to be both a market for stereoscopic 3D movie projects and a forum for discussion and education about producing and distributing S-3D content.
Focus mismatch is a big issue for 3D
We all want the best quality out of our stereoscopic 3D movies. complete match of both cameras parameters is a required condition, so we align, we adjust zoom values... and we forget to fine tune the focus distance! Focus mismatch is not easy to correct (post-processing correction will degrade quality) and is even not so easy to detect.
To raise awareness about this issue, Serji Pujades(in the picture below) and his colleagues from INRIA,Grenoble, France presented a 16 minutes talk at the Stereoscopic Displays and Application conference in January 2012. They presented a new method to detect focus mismatch running in real-time. The presentation is available in full here under.
