For the music video of Björk’s ‘Wanderlust’ the directing duo known as Encyclopedia Pictura, comprising Sean Hellfritsch and Isaiah Saxon, decided to take the bold leap into the world of 3D. And this was not to be a simple 3D project, if there is such a thing, but included shooting miniatures, puppets and live action on greenscreen and then adding CG elements in post. While the video is not due out until February (and thus we cannot show any video clips until then) we spoke to the duo about the 3D process, from constructing the 3D camera rig with a couple of Silicon Imaging 2K MINI cameras, the techniques of shooting 3D, to editing and compositing the 3D images.
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Comments (10) for "Making a 3D Music Video for Björk"
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That looks great! Dzignlight Studios just finished production & post on a 3D stereoscopic music video for an up-and-coming band, complete with color correction and several visual effects. We should have a press release online soon at: http://www.dzignlight.com/stereo
Posted by Eric Deren on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 @ 06:30 PM
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An excellent story. You might want to consider how best to show the 3D footage on projectors. One relatively cost effective way would be to use 2 Adtec displayMate-8, edje-4111 or Soloist-4111 HD media players. These players can be run in frame-accurate synch in a master / slave arrangement. From our experience of stereo 3D playback the active synch. is rock-solid with these players. There will be no drift and the media can be played continuously looping or externally controlled. The players will handle your non-standard HD resolutions. The DVI digital outputs of the players drive projectors that are aligned and circularly polarized. The combined images are viewed with polarized glasses.
Posted by Norm Garland on Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 03:13 AM
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How about pictures of the beam splitter and the cam rig in operation.?
Posted by Ken on Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 08:39 AM
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Well done! And if possible, I'd like to follow-up and ask Norm Garland a few questions about his projection expertise. Would you be able to send my email address to him from here?
Posted by Gary Jesch on Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 12:08 PM
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Hi Gary,
Consider it done, though don\'t keep the rest of us here out of the loop.
Best
Posted by Matt Armstrong on Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 12:49 PM
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Cineform and Premiere/After Effects is a great way to go for 3-D. But not many people know abut the "3-D" Filter you can drop onto Premiere's Video streams. i.e. make Video 1 Left Eye, Video 2 Right eye and instantly see/make stereo pairs side by side or interlaced (field sequential) composits or 5 flavors of anaglyph. This allows you to see 3-D while you edit, check L&R sync, etc. so that the 3-D is not an "add on" at the end of the edit. I find it's a great way to work.
Posted by Tom Koester on Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 08:53 PM
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I was on set during the shoot. Pretty significant stuff here. Though the premiere/after effects doesn't compare to the stunning realism this produces.
also - fyi - Misnomer Dance choreographed the work and should have some materials up on the making of. see http://www.misnomer.org/blog
Posted by Jaki Levy on Thursday, December 6, 2007 @ 08:34 PM
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Here is that 3D music video I was talking about. The full-color premiere was a few weeks ago, and Golden the band is letting people view the red/cyan anaglph version directly from their website:
http://www.goldentheband.com/3D
Of course, to watch it at home you will need special red/cyan glasses, but GOLDEN is giving those away too.
The 3D music video was produced by Atlanta-based Dzignlight Studios.
Posted by Eric Deren on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 @ 10:03 AM
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It's almost February, do you guys at StudioDaily have any news about the release date of this video for Björk's WANDERLUST by Encyclopedia Pictura ? Or maybe do you have some pictures or short previews of it :) ?
Thanks.
Posted by Jan Isaksson on Thursday, January 31, 2008 @ 04:54 PM
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The 3D Film Factory has a nice set of cheap 3D camera rigs. I made a 3D music video with them that came out very nicely.
Posted by Streb Coopen on Friday, April 10, 2009 @ 01:31 PM
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