3D TVs, 3D broadcast channels and 3D cinemas pop up like daisies, people are paying more to see 3D, hence 2D content has less value than 3D content. 3D movies already accounted for 33 percent of the box office this year and this was achieved by only four films! Wow!
This means 2D to 3D conversion is an interesting subject and that’s why we’re continiously developing better ways to handle this. I believe quality conversion can ONLY be done manually, that is by people. There’s absolutely no computer algorythm that can achieve the same 3D perception as the human brain, at least not until there’s real AI on the market. So for now, doing good 2D to 3D conversions we have to work day and night, converting everything manually frame by frame, second by second, minute by minute. And the more efforts (time) we put in it, the better the result.
Converting 2D to 3D is a delicate process it’s in our business’ best interest to deliver high quality 3D. If we don’t deliver the highest quality of 3D conversion, chances exist that the audience could be disappointed about 3D in general, we can’t risk that to happen.
Filming directly in 3D can be great but can also turn out catastrophic without proper equipment and experience. Don’t forget that too. Though appropriate filmed 3D movies, are of course better than conversions, no doubts about that.
Below some results of our conversion methods, please notice these are just Anaglyphs versions to make it easy to show them, of course I also have side by side (full colour) stereo pairs! Let me know what you think of it.
