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Converting 2-D Films To 3-D

Posted By Mike on March 1, 2008

IESB recently sat down with Charlotte Huggins, producer of the live-action 3-D feature Journey to the Center of the Earth which just had it's first screening at WonderCon. Naturally they talked about Journey, but also touched on the future of 3-D in cinema as well as what it takes to convert a 2-D film to 3-D. (like Star Wars!) See below for the Star Wars related excerpts and click here for the full interview:

"IESB: And there�s talk of going back and making 2-D movies into 3-D.

Huggins: Well, when you make a 3-D movie, you can always go back and show it in 2-D but if you make a 2-D movie, you can�t always show it in 3-D. So you make it in 3-D and you always have 2-D or 3-D options.

IESB: But isn�t there talk of going the other way? Hasn�t George Lucas talked about going back and adding 3-D to Star Wars?

Huggins: Right. They are actually talking about � and they�ve been experimenting with � doing a 3-D conversion. They take each optic in each frame of each scene and map that object and create the 3-D. It�s pretty impressive.

IESB: But it�s painstaking process?

Huggins: It is. It�s expensive. It�s slow. But it�s beautiful. That�s what they did on Nightmare Before Christmas. It�s amazing. They did the best 3-D conversion I�ve ever seen. They really did it carefully and it just looks beautiful. That movie wasn�t conceived for 3-D. It just has so much 3-D stuff in it that it came out beautiful. Polar Express they did the same thing. But those are movies that live in a surreal space.

IESB: Is it something that�s significantly harder to do with live-action actors?

Huggins: Yes, it�s harder and ultimately less satisfying. It�s fun and particularly if you could do Star Wars and create Star Wars in 3-D, it would blow peoples� minds. You feel like you�re there. It�s a very intimate experience. You feel like you�re in the ship with them. We�re all Star Wars fans. It�s three generations at least. You have three generations of people who would love to be on the ship with them or involved in a battle. You don�t just watch it. You experience it."

Thanks to "shazbazzar" for the link!

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