Katzenberg instead was optimistic during some 40 minutes onstage taking questions from David Wertheimer, executive director of the Entertainment Technology Center at U.S.C.
He even took a sunny view of the suddenly-controversial practice of converting 2D movies to 3D, which he said holds promise for converting library titles for 3D homevideo.
Noting that the tools for creating stereoscopic 3D animation have improved rapidly, he said “That’s going to happen on conversion. Right now it’s just beginning to see big capital investments. So now it’s in the most rudimentary stage. It’s going to change very very quickly. I’m actually pretty optimistic that 12, 18, 24 months from right now there will be a quality process.”
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