The 3D content winner at the 2012 SD&A 3D Theater session was:

Best of Show – “All Is Not Lost” by OK Go and Pilobolus (USA)

Honorary Mention – “The Blackpool Tower 4D Experience” by Sharp Cookies Ltd. (UK)

This year’s judges of the SD&A 3D Theater session were: Percy Fung from Digital Magic Limited (Hong Kong) and Adjunct Professor at City University of Hong Kong; and Bernard Mendiburu, author of “3D Movie Making” and the follow-up “3D TV and 3D Cinema”.  The judges were impressed with the high quality and inventiveness of the content, and had a challenging task to choose the winning entry from among a strong field.

The prizes for the Best of Show award were: a copy of “Stereoscopic Displays and Applications 1990-2009: A Complete 20-Year Retrospective (Special Collection DVD-ROM)” (ISBN: 9780819476593); an autographed copy of Bernard Mendiburu’s latest book “3D TV and 3D Cinema: Tools and Processes for Creative Stereoscopy”; and an autographed copy of Lenny Lipton’s seminal 1982 book “Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema” (also available as a free e-book at: http://www.stereoscopic2.org/library/foundation.cfm ).
The Best of Show award was accepted by Eric Kurland who was the Stereographer for “All Is Not Lost”.

41 different 3D content segments were screened during the two hour SD&A 3D Theater session, showcasing a wide range of styles from 3D content producers from around the world.

The full list of 3D content segments screened during the SD&A 3D Theater follows:

Competition category:
Sony Two Worlds                   Sony and Grey London (UK)
UYUYUI!                           Santiago Caicedo (Colombia)
C30 Electric Crash Tests in 3D    Volvo Cars Corporation (Sweden)
All Is Not Lost                   OK Go and Pilobolus (USA)
Random42 Showreel                 Hugo Paice (UK)
Hong Kong Skydrive                Volker Kuchelmeister (Australia)
The Blackpool Tower 4D Experience Sharp Cookies Ltd. (UK)
Pro XXXRW                         Brian Drake and Jhonathan Florez (USA)
Dancing Girls                     Norma Kamali / 21st Century 3D (USA)
Make Every Second Count           Nat Bartholomew (USA)
Ancient Russia 3D                 Andrey Anokhin (Russia)
Dimension3 2011 Trailer           Dimension3 (France)
The Bird Man                      Yoshihiro Funabashi (Japan)
Bullproof                         Digital Revolution Studios (USA)
My Dream                          Joy Park (Korea)
Tarang                            Jonny Greenwald, et al (USA)
Monster vs Mini 3D                Mini Cooper/BSUR/Camp David/WW7/
21st Century 3D(USA)

Demonstration category:
Brave (trailer)               Pixar Animation Studios (USA)
Scrat’s Continental Crack-up, part 1 and 2
20th Century Fox, Blue Sky Studios (USA)
See You Later                 Amusic and Digital Magic Limited (Hong Kong)
3D Bubble Mania Extended Cut  Peck Media (USA)
PlayStation 3 Stereoscopic Games Selection
Sony Computer Entertainment (UK)
Enxaneta                      TV3, Televisió de Catalunya (Spain)
GoPro 3D: Highlight Reel 2011 GoPro Media Team (USA)
De-Visions 3D                 Ryan Suits (USA)
John Carter (trailer)         Disney (USA)
The Shadower                  Jenny Januszewski (USA)
Humor and Heartache of War    Digital Revolution Studios (USA)
Cycle 3D (trailer)            Andrew Murchie, Enhanced Dimensions (UK)
3D from 2D: HMAS Sydney II in 3D
Curtin University (Australia)
3D Mash-Up 2011               Lightspeed Design, Inc. (USA)
The 30 Second Intermezzo      Chris Casady (USA)
Soar Over Asteroid Vesta in 3D
NASA / JPL-Caltech (USA)
Galaxy Mergers in the Early Universe
Ralf Kaehler and Tom Abel (USA)
Universe in a Coffee Cup      Takashi Sekitani (Japan)
Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera)(1929)(restored in 3D)
Carl Hernz (USA)
NVIDIA 3D Vision thriller     GALI-3D s.r.o. (Czech Republic)
Viu en 3D! (Live in 3D)       TV3, Televisió de Catalunya (Spain)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 3D
KUK Filmproduktion and Fraunhofer HHI(Germany)
Monkey King                   Sight, Sound & Action and
Digital Magic Ltd(Hong Kong)
(NB: items in the demonstration category were not judged for the Best of Show or Honorary Mention awards)

The producers of the 2012 SD&A 3D Theater were Andrew Woods (Curtin University, Australia) and Chris Ward (Lightspeed Design, USA).  The SD&A 3D Theater session was projected in high-quality polarized 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 John Stern (Intuitive Surgical Inc., retired).

The SD&A 3D Theater is the highest-attended session of the 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 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 a wide range of content to be screened in a limited time period.  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 Theater session was held on the evening of Monday 23 January 2012 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

A “3D mash-up” of content from previous years’ 3D Theater sessions can be found on YouTube3D courtesy of DepthQ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_d8aozFXLk

ABOUT THE SD&A CONFERENCE

The 23rd annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (SD&A) conference was held 23-25 January 2012 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel in Burlingame California.  SD&A is the largest and longest running technical conference dedicated to stereoscopic imaging, and is the world’s premier conference for 3D innovation.  At this year’s conference almost 100 technical manuscripts were presented, covering a wide range of stereoscopic imaging topics.  The SD&A conference is held as part of the annual Electronic Imaging Symposium organized by IS&T and SPIE.  The full program of the 2012 SD&A conference is available here: http://www.stereoscopic.org/2012/program.html

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Entry Fees & Charges – Electronic only exhibition! The entry fee is $8.00 U.S.

To pay by mail, make checks payable to SCSC, U.S. currency will be accepted at entrant’s risk. Send to Ed Ogawa, 8763 Reading Ave, Westchester CA 90045, USA.

Entries for which fees have not been received by the Closing Date, February 5, 2012, will not be judged.

1. The Exhibition is open to anyone; however, an entry may be rejected when the sponsoring organization or its agent in its reasonable discretion believes the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and conditions.
2. Entries must be limited to not more than four stereo digital images. The title and maker’s name should not appear in the image.
3. Entries must originate as photographs (images-captures of objects via light sensitivity) made by the entrant. Images may be acquired on traditional film and scanned to an electronic file or acquired electronically. By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his own and permits the sponsors to reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for publication and/or display in media related to the exhibition. This may include low resolution posting on a website. The exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright. (Submission implies acceptance of all conditions.)
4. Images may be altered, either electronically or otherwise, by the maker and artwork or computer graphics created by the entrant may be incorporated if the photographic content predominates.
5. Images previously accepted may not be reentered regardless of title.
6. An entrant’s four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging.
7. Selection will follow the current Photographic Society of America’s (PSA, psa-photo.org) Consolidated Exhibition Standards (CES) and PSA Uniform Judging Practices.
8. Electronic entry payment must be received prior to Closing Date, email info to chairperson.
9. All accepted entries will be credited to the entrants at the showings and in the catalog (which will be emailed to entrants and posted on the LA 3D Club website, la3dclub.com.) Names of accepted entrants will be submitted for listing credit in PSA’s “Who’s Who in Stereo Photography” and for Star Rating records.
10. Report cards will be emailed, unless a written copy is requested.
11. All possible care will be exercised in handling of all entries, but no responsibility is assumed for loss or damage of entries during the Exhibition or in transit.
12. The filename should be the same as the image title, alphanumeric only, no punctuation, without your name. One JPEG file per image-pair, side-by-side, left on left, right on right, no margins, no line down the middle. Images will be re-sampled by the projection system to 1400 x 1050 pixels maximum, each eye; 2800 x 1050 total for the stereo pair. Please wait patiently for your files to upload. Do not navigate away from the uploader page. It will take several minutes.

Calendar for 2012
Closing Date for all entries … February 5, 2012
Selection … February 19, 2012
Report Cards emailed by … March 1, 2012
Catalogue posted and emailed by … May 7, 2012

Showings
San Diego Stereo Club … March 28, 2012
Stereo Club of Southern California … April 19, 2012
Other clubs as they can be scheduled … TBA
National Stereoscopic Association Convention … July 2011

Only One Section:
Electronic-Digital

Hollywood Chairperson
Ed Ogawa
8763 Reading Ave
Westchester CA 90045, USA
ed5ogawa(at)earthlink.net

Selectors
John E. Hart, Sunland, CA – stereo exhibitor
David Kuntz, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA – stereo exhibitor
Barry Rothstein, Long Beach, CA – stereo exhibitor
Alternate: Bob Kneisel, Pasadena, CA – stereo exhibitor

Awards
The PSA Stereo Division Gold Medal
Hollywood SCSC Silver Exhibition Medal
Hollywood SCSC Bronze Exhibition Medal
Honorable Mention Ribbons

Digital Darkroom is comprised of an 80-image print show with 2-6 images contributed by each of the featured photographers. Hundreds of additional images from Digital Darkroom’s photographers will also be showcased in vivid detail on the two 14′ by 7′ high-resolution screens in the Photography Space’s Digital Gallery.

The exhibition includes a 3D film shot in 5K resolution using RED EPIC cameras, presented in a specially created screening room. This film includes interviews with 3D experts and historians Ray Zone and David Kuntz, 3D artists Ted Grudowski and Christopher Schneberger, and explores how 3D artists Claudia Kunin and Mike Pucher photograph their subjects and alter them digitally to create 3D results.  Key elements of the history of stereoscopic photography are also in the film.

The artists come from a range of backgrounds, each specializing in fine art, commercial art, portraiture, still life, fashion, architectural or other types of photographic and illustrative expression. However, many of the artists cross genres and combine multiple techniques to create their unique work. Serving as curatorial advisor for Digital Darkroom is Russell Brown, a Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems Incorporated and an Emmy Award-winning instructor.

Digital Darkroom will run from December 17, 2011 through May 28, 2012.

The Annenberg Space for Photography
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.com

Recently released on BluRay, “A Haunting in Salem” is a horror film based around the historic events of the Salem witch trials of 1692. Global Asylum felt the storyline lent itself to being enhanced by stereoscopic 3D, and chose to capture the movie in native 3D, rather than converting it after the fact. Shot on Red Ones and using the DV4 beam-splitter provided by InterVideo, the feature’s principal photography, helmed by DP Alexander Yellen, maintained a tight schedule, covering up to 28 set ups per day. As On-Set Stereographer, Ms. Benna was in charge of stereoscopic equipment, camera and rig alignment, depth budget, and depth score. She also served as the film’s overall stereoscopic production consultant.

An experienced filmmaker, Ms. Benna said, “I was amazed by the efficiency and cohesive teamwork behind ‘A Haunting in Salem’. This production team managed to shoot a full length, 3D feature in only 12 days. I was skeptical about making the schedule, especially with a full sized rig, but once we got the feel of our system down, we had almost no problems. Everyone was very receptive to making adjustments to enhance the stereo effect. It was great fun to work in such a collaborative environment!”

According to the film’s director, Shane Van Dyke, “Working with Shannon was an absolute pleasure and an invaluable learning experience. Having never worked with 3D myself, I was able to gain a whole new understanding of the process and the fundamentals that go along with it.”

In addition to her consulting work on behalf of various 3D productions, Ms. Benna is also launching a “Women in 3D” industry organization to help synergize the community. She said, “I truly love working in 3D, and I want to make the 3D Women’s community a very global one. So far, I have ‘rounded up’ more than 60 ‘Stereo Sisters’ currently working in the 3D space. I believe in the magic of 3D—it changes one’s perspective, and I feel proof of that by working within the 3D community every day. A woman turned me on to 3D and I’d like to share and nurture that tradition of fellowship and support through mentorship. I want to encourage women everywhere to explore technology and perception through the 3D medium.”

Theaters have a recycling program, but their eyewear is still made from a petroleum-based product that is not renewable and sustainable and will sit in a landfill for 500 years before they degrade. But hope is here, there is new 3-D eyewear made from Cereplast, a renewable and sustainable material that contains no fossil fuels, the product is natural. The eco-friendly 3-D glasses can be used once or many times. When they are no longer usable, they can be recycled, as they bear the number 7 in the recycle symbol, like the petroleum based 3-D glasses currently in use.

While not optimal, if the eco-friendly 3-D glasses end up in a landfill, they will degrade far more rapidly than traditional plastic glasses. Plant based materials such as used in Cereplast are renewable. We can plant new crops this year and more next year, if necessary. The impact on our environment is considerable. Consider a pair of the plastic glasses that seem ubiquitous in the industry. Ten million pairs of the glasses made from Cereplast is equivalent to eliminating green house emissions from burning 74,039 gallons of gasoline or 1,536 barrels of oil. They are available from Berezin.com.  For more information check out Oculus 3D’s website.

You can find out more about James’ photography at his website

Brewery ArtWalk
Fall 2011 – October 1 & 2
11am – 6pm
2100 N Main St, LA, CA 90031

The Brewery ArtWalk is a twice annual open studio weekend at the worlds largest art complex. With over 100 participating resident artists, you will have the opportunity to see new works, discover new favorites, speak with the artists and purchase artwork directly from the artists at studio prices.

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