Clash of the Titans

[vlado]

Is it me or the 3d conversion is really bad? It looked like at times the depth of the objects didn't match the actual footage and looked very weird...

Best regards,
Vlado

[vlado]

Also, what is it with films coming out in twos? First Percy Jackson now Clash of the Titans. Was the same with Madagaskar and In the Wild; and several vampire films coming out all at the same time; the Matrix and the 13th floor...

Best regards,
Vlado

[flino2004]

yes, it's very weird....if you see people looks like they copied them few inches behind
the 3d effect if very poor.

[percydaman]

I haven't seen clash of the titans, but I think we should all be prepared for alot of crappy 3d implementation in movies here in the future.

[tammo]

"Clash of the Titans" was filmed in 2D and converted to 3D in Post by a company specialising in this technique.
It is very expensive and a lot of the work is done by hand.
The end result can look very bad (like "clash") or very good like with "alice in wonderland" which was also filmed in 2D,
but they had a bigger budget for the conversion.

[flino2004]

the actor went from one of the best 3d movies (avatar) to the worst one in two consecutive movies for him

[rmejia]

Bad 3D Will Be the Death of 3D

"As Katzenberg reminds us, "all 3D is not created equal." The post-production 3D in Clash of the Titans, he explains, is the worst of the worst, and he thinks it won't be long before audiences get hip to the scam and start pushing back."

[YoyoBoy]

I saw it last night in 3D so that I would know what you guys were talking about. Yeah, wow, that was pretty terrible! Very distracting. All that double-image stuff going on around people's hair, and sometimes even the landscape would seem just wrong.

[BLADE]

I saw the trailer of Clash in 3D. The movie looked so dump in case of story and CGI so I decided to see it in 0D (zero-D).

[andrewjohn81]

Yeah, i heard that conversion process was around 2000 dollars per minute to work on it. And that's not per footage minute...that's paying some guy basically 120,000 dollars per hour to convert the film. Or that's what I heard. I find that slightly hard to believe. It sounded like they basically have to rotoscope every frame with 3D layers. So there's artistic eye, and the more frames you skip the worse it will look (ie. clash of the titans).

Also, a few elements in Alice were actually 3D weren't they? I was under the impression the post effect was only done to live footage. I don't know there would be much reason not to render straight to 3D as you aren't paying for as many man hours.

[vlado]

I believe the CGI pieces in Alice were proper 3D, and the live footage was carefully shot to make conversion easier. But in Clash, everything was done in 2D originally and even the CGI had to be post-converted.

Best regards,
Vlado

[GatesB]

Is there another thread where I can talk about how BAD this movie was?

[glorybound]

it sounds very much like colorizing black and white in the 50's and 60's. We'll look back and laugh; but at least we are all a part of the transition from 2D to 3D.

[glorybound]

We'll tell our kids that, "movies were 2D when I was a kid", and they will not believe us.

[KAKTUSDIGITAL]

i thought it was rather strange, that when sam worthington's character was standing and talking to someone right next to him, he would be in full focus and the other person would be completely blurred. I thought the boat scene (at dusk/night) was pretty horrible, it felt like being on the actual set with a real boat and characters, but a fake backdrop.