sathees wrote:some live films are filmed flat then later converted to 3D (stereoscopic) how do they do that in compositing.
Whats the magic behind this.
Folks at i3Dpost are working on this technology along with The Foundry and here is the link to their concept and state of art of their research. There was also entry on Foundry's blog on their research as follows
"Simon (our Chief Scientist) and Ben (Demo Artist extraordinaire) were showing off the 2D to 3D technology we are working on in our i3dLive research project. In i3dLive we're generating stereo views from one or more non-stereo cameras. Ben and Simon tracked a single view sequence using our new CameraTracker for NukeX, calculated depth using a DepthCalculator plug-in we're working on and synthesised a stereo camera in Nuke's 3D environment. The cool trick is that once you're rendering using a 3D camera you can do 3D camera stabilisation as well as control interaxial convergence and separation to create a perfect stereo view. Neat."
More on this you can view in Fxguide TV 68 episode (14:00).
It seems this technology could also be used in live broadcast and for other TV programmes. Also do check out i3dpost's work in progress section which talks about extracting virtual markers for capturing facial animation.
Finally Prime Focus also have their own proprietary solution called View D for this same purpose.
