“Why 3D doesn’t work and never will. Case closed.”
Film critic, historian, and intrepid blogger Roger Ebert drew a line in the sand in this blog post from January 23, 2011.
Debating 3D #1: Roger Ebert says “Never”
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for the record: Ridley Scott
“3D has been a wonderful exercise but I was brought up as a camera operator so its really about lensing and all that kind of stuff. So with the help I’ve had from a wonderful cameraman and his technical team its been, for me, a pretty straight forward ride. That said I’ll never work without 3D again, even for small dialogue scenes. I love the whole process. 3D opens up the universe of even a small dialogue scene so I’ve been very impressed with that.”
— Director Ridley Scott, (The Duellists, Alien, Bladerunner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator) to Comicon 2011, http://bit.ly/qbnpxP
“It’s just a fad” #1
From Wikipedia entry on "Stereoscopy": "Company of ladies watching stereoscopic photographs, painting by Jacob Spoel, before 1868. Probably the earliest depiction of people using a stereoscope" {This media file is in the public domain of the United States}
CONFESSIONS OF A 3D SKEPTIC
I’m a recent convert to 3D stereography. Of course like most people I’ve had two eyes for a long time. I see in stereo, and I love what I see. I love nature. I love art—traditional painting, photography, sculpture, conceptual work, street art. And cinema. I love movies.
For several years I’ve been working in the technology side of digital cinema distribution for both files and live streams. I was fortunate to participate in pioneering successes in delivering live 3D events to cinemas around the world (with International Datacasting, Sensio and Cinedigm).
But I’ve been a secret cynic. I felt like this is something not meant for me, or my demographic (I’m not a teenaged boy). Recently that has changed. A number of things have opened my eyes and now I’m excited by the possibilities and can’t wait to see what comes next.
Let’s start here. A few months ago I saw a wonderful short on AMC celebrating the 10th anniversary of sound motion pictures with an awful sound track describing how great sound quality is. Can’t find that but this does a good job of showing a bumpy technology in its technical and aesthetic infancy:
Planet 3D 