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Posted by Cameron Glendinning (Member # 3516) on 04-05-2007, 08:45 PM:

on 9msn today

quote:
Home-grown 3D series to hit world market
Friday Apr 6 09:14 AEST
A team of Queensland animators is putting the final touches on a 3D animated children's series to launch to the global television and trade market in Cannes, France, this month.

Queensland State Development Minister John Mickel said the 3D animation used a sophisticated technique usually reserved for feature films which would set it aside from other productions.

The series was based on the popular children's picture book Animalia by Melbourne author Graeme Base, which has sold more than three million copies since its release 20 years ago.

Mr Mickel was at the Animalia TV series' Gold Coast base, Warner Roadshow Studios, to announce a $200,000 grant to Gold Coast visual effects company Photon VFX which worked on the international project.

"The innovative series is poised to set a new benchmark for television animation world-wide when broadcast in Australia and overseas from September 2007," Mr Mickel said.

Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 04-05-2007, 09:21 PM:

Are you sure the article isn't just referring to 3D computer animation, rather than some process to make TV look 3D?

Posted by Cameron Glendinning (Member # 3516) on 04-05-2007, 11:15 PM:

Its hard to say with a press release like that one!

the link was titled, Home-grown 3D series to hit world market

I took it at face value, but suggest that it may just be spin re style, sending out all those glasses would be a pain!

The only time I worked on a 3D Tv Show, it used red and green glasses, 250,000 were sent out in the post(I personally made 9,000 sets and put them in envelopes) It used 2 video cameras on a special mount. It was simply cheesy inserts, For australian film techers it was final episode of a Andrew Denton show called BLAH BLAH BLAH in 1989.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-06-2007, 01:02 AM:

Seems to me like it's just computer-animated stuff. Red/Blue glasses don't work well for TV since most aren't calibrated very well for color, and even then NTSC and PAL are both very limited with their crappy visuals. Neither deserve to exist. If they did it with HDTV, then the MPEG2 artifacting would destroy the 3D image. I wonder which technology is older... anaglyph 3D or MPEG2?

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 04-06-2007, 10:29 AM:

I predict a flurry of "my picture looks funny" calls to TV stations and cable systems when this thing airs.