This week’s “Resource Of the Week” is the fantastic “3D Movie Making: Stereoscopic Digital Cinema from Script to Screen” by Bernard Mendiburu. With 3D movies becoming more popular, more and more amateurs and professionals are experimenting with the technology and finding many questions along the way. Recently recommended by 3d World as a great place to start for their Sony Stereoscopic competition, we’ve made it our recommended book of the week.
Hollywood is going 3D! Join the revolution with this primer to all of the essential skills for live action 3D, from preproduction through distribution.
3D perception and science is presented in an accessible way that provides the principles of Stereoscopic vision you need to make the transition from the 2D world. Tools of the trade are enumerated with an eye on current constraints and what is coming down the pike to smooth the way. Step-by-step instructions detail how 3D processes affect every stage of the production including screenwriting, art direction, principle photography, editing, visual effects and distribution.
The companion DVD includes an array of 2D and 3D images that demonstrate concepts and techniques, 3D movie shorts that showcase alternative techniques, After Effects project files to explore and manipulate for effect, and a resource list of software tools and tutorials that demonstrate techniques.
This book, and many others, is available in the VizWorld Store.
Unfortunately, this book is the only thing out there on shooting stereo 3D. I say unfortunately, because it is a hard read due being poorly written. The illustrations are pretty cheesy, too. Parallel Cinema and Innoventive will be releasing a training DVD this summer that should run circles around Mendiburu’s book.