[BleedingCool]

There’s a number of complaints that one hears again and again and again, and while I’ve become quite tired of swatting these flies myself, I wanted to put them all to Robert Neumann, the Disney-based stereographer who gave Tangled, Beauty and the Beast and now The Lion King their depth.

So, one by one, here’s what Neumann had to say about this bunch of familiar criticisms:

“3D is just a gimmick”

“That didn’t need to be in 3D”

“3D is just for certain kinds of films”

“You can’t have fast editing in 3D”

“I didn’t even notice it was in 3D”

There’s two reasons why that happens. One is that it’s just right, it’s natural, and you just enjoy the rest of the film. There’s the other thing, where people have gone too conservative with the amount of depth. That’s the type where you’re taking you glasses and lifting them up to verify that it’s still in 3D. There have been some films that have been so conservative in depth that you can lift up your glasses and see there’s nothing going on.

And this far, Robert and I were in agreement. Later, though, I’ll report on our disagreement, my doubts about some of his philosophy of 3D… and, of course, on his rebuttal to my challenges.

See the full story here: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/10/07/squashing-five-common-criticisms-of-3d-with-lion-king-stereographer-robert-neumann/