Getting ready to see a big 3D movie, but not sure if it was shot in stereoscopic 3D or post-processed into 3D? Phil Dhingra to the rescue, with a new website called ‘Is It Real or Fake 3D?’ where he catalogs movies into the two categories.
Many film studios are trying to cash in on moviegoers’ craving for 3D films. However, many studios are “faking it” by converting 2D films into 3D post-production. Worse, the studios are not being upfront in their advertising, with some people feeling ripped-off after paying extra fees for the “3D Experience.” This is no discredit to the actual graphic artists working on these conversions, but there’s only so much that can be done post-production. If you only have one-eye’s worth of content, you can’t just make up the content for the second eye. It’s not as simple as the re-colorization that happened to classic movies.
He has a list of classics back to 1953 through current in-production films to be released in 2012.
