Responsibilities / VFX Supervisor. All Post Production. New Workflow Development - Glasses Free 3D Promo
LG approached Inition to produce a 3D promo to showcase their new 3D smartphone’s multimedia capabilities in a way that would grab attention via LG branded in-store point-of-sale 3D displays.
Inition developed a treatment based around a 24″ glasses-free 3D display and the concepts of shooting, sharing and gaming in 3D. The treatment involved parkour and acrobatic skills to demonstrate the filming capabilities of the screen in an eye-catching way. 3D graphics were developed for pop-out moments detailing the unique specifications of the phone.
Traditional stereoscopic films require left and a right viewpoints but as this film was to be displayed on glasses free lenticular screens, 8 unique viewpoints were required due to the way these displays work.
I had to develop a brand new workflow within NUKE, taking stereoscopic footage, and using it to generate an extra 6 views.
This involved shooting the stereo with a greater separation than we would usually do, so that we could use the left and right camera's as our 1 and 8 views.
We then roto'd the hero actors, and generated disparity maps of the footage, which allowed us to extrapolate the depth information for them.
I created virtual environments of the scenes, and created an additional 6 virtual cameras between camera 1 & 8.
The interpolated actors and the new backgrounds were composited back together to give us our 8 views in total that were used to generate the glasses-free 3D effect on the display.
The interpolated actors and the new backgrounds were composited back together to give us our 8 views in total that were used to generate the glasses-free 3D effect on the display.
