P3D Re: Viewmaster Reels

[jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gabriel Jacob)]

Tom writes,
>It's one thing if they do "2d-3d conversions"(layers), but like "Toy
>Story", if you look at those reels, they looked like they were
>photographed "on the set"- meaning they're not "2d-3d" conversions, all
>characters are rounded and have depth as though they were really
>photographed in 3D.
>
>Quite impressive. :)

Sorry I can't help you with your other interesting questions, but
can mention that since Toy Story was completely computer generated,
unlike traditional cartoons which rely on a mixture of human/computer
drawings, it was a "simple" matter to generate a 3-D pair. 

What I found more impressive is how the hand drawn cartoons that are
converted from 2-D to 3-D are often times not simple layering but
have alot more depth information. There are alot of fine examples
of this (that is not to say there aren't bad examples of just simple
shifting :-( ) An example of this can be found at,
http://www.generation.net/~jacob/tintin.jpg 
This was from an old tintin reel that I had converted last year to
digital. 

Gabriel


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