HOW TO COLOUR GRADE STEREOSCOPIC 3D FOOTAGE
Following our interview with Pixmondo's VFX supervisor Ben Grossman – who won an Oscar for Hugo – about how to use stereoscopic 3D to subtly affect viewers emotions, we wanted to find out how other creative techniques are being used with the new medium. We caught up with colourist Dado Valentic of Mytherapy, who worked on many early IMAX 3D projects and mastered StreetDance 3D, the first British stereo 3D film, to find out how grading can be used artfully in 3D.
Dado says that there are a few technical challenges that need to be overcome first when working with 3D footage. The first is that because of the glasses audiences wear, 3D films and TV shows need to be a lot brighter than 2D productions. “You have to take parts of the image that will disappear into the darkness and make them visible again without creating a distortion,” he says.
Below Dado takes us through grading a shot from Jet Set Films using Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve colour grading software. For each step we've placed the left eye frame first and the right eye second. ...
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