(San Francisco, CA) Experts in stereoscopic cinema declared several winners at the 3D Theater session of the 22nd annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (SD&A) conference. The SD&A conference is the largest and longest running technical conference dedicated to the discussion of technical stereoscopic imaging topics.
The 3D content winners at the 2011 SD&A 3D Theater are:
Best of Show – Live Action: “White Knuckles 3D” by OK Go, Stereography by Eric Kurland (USA)
Honorary Mention – Live Action: “Stereo Timelapse” by Takashi Sekitani, StereoEyE (Japan)
Best of Show – CGI: “Fractal Odyssey” by John Hart and Jerry Oldaker (USA)
Honorary Mention – CGI: “Holy Moly” by Passmore Labs (USA)
Best of Show – VFX: “Dead Boring” by Dave Edwardz, AFTRS (Australia)
Honorary Mention – VFX: “Experiments in Stereoscopic Imaging” by iCinema (Australia)
This year’s judges of the SD&A 3D theater session were: Dr Samuel Zhou from IMAX Corporation and Bernard Mendiburu, author of 3D Movie Making. The judges were impressed with the high quality and inventiveness of the content and had a challenging task to choose the winning entries amongst a strong field.
The prizes for the Best of Show winners were a copy of the new DVD-ROM “Stereoscopic Displays and Applications – 1990-2009: A Complete 20-Year Retrospective” (which contains over 1200 technical manuscripts covering a wide range of 3D topics), and a copy of the book “3D Movie Making” by Bernard Mendiburu.
Forty different 3D Video segments were shown during the two hours of this year’s SD&A 3D Theater show – representing a wide range of different content types from producers of 3D content located all around the world.
The full list of 3D content segments shown during the SD&A 3D Theater is as follows:
Competition Category:
Karisma Films Showreel (Timelapse) Karisma Films (Finland)
Hong Kong – Potential Unlimited Digital Magic (Hong Kong)
Ztring Theory Karl Bryhn & Jo Eldøen, Chiptoons (Norway)
Go Kia Dzignlight (USA)
The Girl Who Had No Fear John Hart (Boulder CO USA)
Gloria (The Death of Me) Andrew Murchie, Enhanced Dimensions (UK)
My Best Stuff! Nat Bartholomew, Spinteck (USA)
Plasticity 3D Ryan Suits, Atomic Cheesecake Productions (USA)
Mercedes-Benz 3D 2010 Lightspeed Design (USA)
The Army Learning Concept 2015 Digital Revolution Studios (USA)
Smart Action 3D Korean Broadcast Service (South Korea)
Stereo Timelapse Takashi Sekitani, StereoEyE (Japan)
White Knuckles OK Go (USA)
Experiments in Stereoscopic Imaging iCinema (Australia)
The Solo Adventures 3D The Digital Animation and Visual Effects School (USA)
Jack Daniels whisky company GALI-3D, Arnold Prague (Czech Republic)
Highly Strung Buzzbomb Media (Australia)
Holy Moly Passmore Lab (USA)
Microworlds Passmore Lab (USA)
3D Safari: Africa Digital Revolution Studios (USA)
Coming Home Rehela Jagric (Slovenia)
Citrullus Lanatus Argyris Theos (Greece)
3D MOOD Aquarium Lightspeed Design, Inc. (USA)
Spinteck 3-D Shorts Nat Bartholomew, Spinteck (USA)
Dead Boring 3D Dave Edwardz, AFTRS (Australia)
Waiting for the End, Linkin Park Passmore Lab (USA)
Fractal Odyssey John Hart and Jerry Oldaker (USA)
Demonstration Category:
Go Ahead! U-Staff (Japan)
Invincible Tiger – The Legend of Han Tao Blitz Games Studios (UK)
21st Century 3D Demo Reel 21st Century 3D (USA)
Keitai Deka – Zenigata Yui BS-TBS Inc. (Japan)
2009 Stereo Clips Enxebre (Spain)
Une Nuit Au Cirque 3D Olivier Kauffer and Fabien Remblier (France)
Gnomeo and Juliet (trailer) Walt Disney Studios (USA)
Hidden 3D (Opening Title Sequence) Dzignlight Studios (USA)
Immersive PC Games with NVIDIA 3D Vision various games companies
Maker Faire Stone Circle Productions (USA)
3D AFL Grand Final (Australian Rules Football) Seven Network (Australia) and 3Ality Digital (USA)
StreetDance 3D (trailer) Paradise FX (USA)
Tekkonkinkreet – 3D digest Tekkonkinkreet Program Committee (Japan)
Garo Red Requiem 3D Keita Amemiya (Japan)
(NB: items in the demonstration category were not judged for the Best of Show or Honorary Mention awards)
The producers of the 2011 SD&A 3D Theater were Andrew Woods (Curtin University, Australia) and Chris Ward (Lightspeed Design, USA). The SD&A 3D Theater was projected in high-quality polarised 3D using equipment and services from DepthQ Stereoscopic, Christie Digital, Visitech 3D, and Strong MDI Screen Systems. Additional support was provided by Dan Lawrence (Lightspeed Design) and Stephan R. Keith (SRK Graphics Research).
The SD&A 3D Theater is one of the highest attended sessions of the annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (SD&A) conference. Many audience members commented afterwards about the high quality and diversity of the program and expressed their appreciation at being able to see such a wide range of 3D content.
ABOUT THE SD&A 3D THEATER
The purpose of the annual SD&A 3D Theater is to showcase the wide range of 3D content that is being used and produced all around the world. 3D content segments shown in the 3D Theater session are usually limited to three minutes in length in order to allow as much 3D content to be shown as possible. The 3D Theater provides a useful focus on the more artistic and creative side of stereoscopic imaging in juxtaposition to the technical focus of some of the other sessions of the SD&A conference. The SD&A 3D Theatre session was held on the evening of Monday 24 January 2011 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel.
An illustrated listing of content shown during previous 3D Theater sessions is provided here:
http://www.stereoscopic.org/3dcinema
ABOUT THE SD&A CONFERENCE
The 22nd annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (SD&A) conference was held 24-27 January 2011 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel in Burlingame California. The SD&A conference is the largest and longest running technical conference dedicated to the discussion of technical stereoscopic imaging topics. At this year’s conference over 80 technical manuscripts were presented covering a wide range of stereoscopic imaging topics. The program of the 2011 SD&A conference is available here:
The SD&A conference is held as part of the annual Electronic Imaging Symposium organized by IS&T and SPIE.
