American Cinematographer - February 2009 - (Page 38) 2 Worlds in 3 Dimensions Cinematographer/ visual-effects supervisor Brian Van’t Hul layered several 2-D fog elements to create the illusion of 3-D depth for this scene. soft in most circumstances, provided that we give the viewer no reason to look back there. (That’s our job as filmmakers in 2-D or 3-D.) Soft foregrounds are a little tricky but can be used with care, especially in accordance with the aforementioned provision. In 3-D, it’s annoying to look through a tangle of soft-focus branches to see a sharp character, but if the branches are in another part of the frame, it seems to work. Our most successful use of shallow depth of field used rack-focus between close and distant characters who were conversing. I think it helped that character voices guided the eye in sync with racking focus. Had there been a smaller image sensor available with thermoelectric cooling and dust protection, I would have preferred it, just for depth of field in 3-D. Such a sensor would likely have trimmed our write-to-disk time as well. We had been warned that digital paint-out of puppet supports would not work in 3-D because the digital paint would reveal itself, floating in the same space as the removed support. That’s true if one is working on a 3-D computer model, but we were going to work on left and right 2-D images. It was not the disaster predicted, but compositors had to be very consistent on both “eyes.” Brian Van’t Hul shot a lot of live-action effects elements with a Red One, all in 2-D, amid concern that they would be revealed as “flat.” Time and money limited us to this approach. The best example of his success is a sequence featuring thick 38 http://www.walterklassen.com
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