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> Up is a tremendous movie; it made me laugh and cry, and was intended to be seen in 3D. Wrong. Up was made, first and foremost, as a 2D film, just like every

by far33d 17y ago

> Up is a tremendous movie; it made me laugh and cry, and was intended to be seen in 3D. Wrong. Up was made, first and foremost, as a 2D film, just like every Pixar film before it. 3D was very important to the overall box office strategy, but the primary medium was the 2D big screen, and the 3D was done as post-process, secondary (just like VHS or DVDs are). The technology behind and amount of artistic energy given towards the 3D version has increased over time, for sure. I believe Dreamworks has started building their films with 3D as the primary version (staging cameras and shots with 3D in mind) but I have no first hand knowledge of that.

hy3lxs 17y ago
I would strongly disagree that 3D in UP can be dismissed as merely a "post-process like VHS." All future Pixar films are going to be in 3D, and Pixar does not make story / layout choices on a whim. Just because the movie is enjoyable in 2D doesn't mean a lot of thought / early planning went into the 3D, it just means the core story was not strongly affected by it. Here's the first part of this interview with the director of UP talks about the use of 3D in the development process: http://www.movieretriever.com/blog/336/interview-pete-docter-director-of-up http://www.movieretriever.com/blog/336/interview-pete-docter... Some choice quotes: "We just focused on telling as strong of a story as we could and then the 3D group followed up with the 3D. And they did use it creatively. We tried to use it like color or like camera or anything else - to emphasize emotion." Development is pipelined at Pixar, starting with Story. So this sounds like 3D was integrated as soon as Animation got their hands on it. "If people really embrace it and feel it's the way to go, then we'll do them all that way. This one, you can see either way, which I think is nice. Some people find it really engaging and interesting but other people are kind of put off by the glasses and whatever. I don't think you're losing anything by seeing it in 2D, it's just a different way to see it." As an extreme analogy, I bet that watching UP with a black and white filter, I would still laugh / cry while watching the film. Extensive interview on 3D with some of the people in charge of 3D: http://www.awn.com/articles/reviews/pixar-goes-3-d http://www.awn.com/articles/reviews/pixar-goes-3-d "Yes, the most gratifying thing is that we put a lot of time and energy and thought in our approach to 3-D and we never really knew if people would get it. To see some of the online reviews coming out of Cannes, it seems that people really got our nuanced, subtle approach. We want to pull people into the movie and not push them away from it with a lot of gimmicky stuff coming at ya." "What was really interesting was, not knowing how 3-D was going to work with editing and with composition, how good camera and staging play really nicely in 3-D. And this turned into a motto for us. We did about eight minutes of Ratatouille as a test and it was really stunning." Gee, I would really like to see that one... anyways there are a bunch of interesting interviews on this stuff. http://www.google.com/search?q=bob+whitehill+interview+up+3d http://www.google.com/search?q=bob+whitehill+interview+up+3d

by far33d 17y ago

hy3lxs 17y ago

I would strongly disagree that 3D in UP can be dismissed as merely a "post-process like VHS." All future Pixar films are going to be in 3D, and Pixar does not make story / layout choices on a whim. Just because the movie is enjoyable in 2D doesn't mean a lot of thought / early planning went into the 3D, it just means the core story was not strongly affected by it. Here's the first part of this interview with the director of UP talks about the use of 3D in the development process: http://www.movieretriever.com/blog/336/interview-pete-docter-director-of-up http://www.movieretriever.com/blog/336/interview-pete-docter... Some choice quotes: "We just focused on telling as strong of a story as we could and then the 3D group followed up with the 3D. And they did use it creatively. We tried to use it like color or like camera or anything else - to emphasize emotion." Development is pipelined at Pixar, starting with Story. So this sounds like 3D was integrated as soon as Animation got their hands on it. "If people really embrace it and feel it's the way to go, then we'll do them all that way. This one, you can see either way, which I think is nice. Some people find it really engaging and interesting but other people are kind of put off by the glasses and whatever. I don't think you're losing anything by seeing it in 2D, it's just a different way to see it." As an extreme analogy, I bet that watching UP with a black and white filter, I would still laugh / cry while watching the film. Extensive interview on 3D with some of the people in charge of 3D: http://www.awn.com/articles/reviews/pixar-goes-3-d http://www.awn.com/articles/reviews/pixar-goes-3-d "Yes, the most gratifying thing is that we put a lot of time and energy and thought in our approach to 3-D and we never really knew if people would get it. To see some of the online reviews coming out of Cannes, it seems that people really got our nuanced, subtle approach. We want to pull people into the movie and not push them away from it with a lot of gimmicky stuff coming at ya." "What was really interesting was, not knowing how 3-D was going to work with editing and with composition, how good camera and staging play really nicely in 3-D. And this turned into a motto for us. We did about eight minutes of Ratatouille as a test and it was really stunning." Gee, I would really like to see that one... anyways there are a bunch of interesting interviews on this stuff. http://www.google.com/search?q=bob+whitehill+interview+up+3d http://www.google.com/search?q=bob+whitehill+interview+up+3d