TIME talks 3-D
TIME has a new article about 3-D filmmaking that’s well worth a read, in part because Stephen Spielberg and Jim Cameron discuss Tintin (which wraps principal photography this week) and Avatar (not the Avatar: The Last Airbender movie) the latter of which the article’s writer got to see the first glimpse of. His reaction:
I couldn’t tell what was real and what was animated–even knowing that the 9-ft.-tall blue, dappled dude couldn’t possibly be real. The scenes were so startling and absorbing that the following morning, I had the peculiar sensation of wanting to return there, as if Pandora were real.
Cameron wasn’t surprised. One theory, he says, is that 3-D viewing “is so close to a real experience that it actually triggers memory creation in a way that 2-D viewing doesn’t.” His own theory is that stereoscopic viewing uses more neurons. That’s possible. After watching all that 3-D, I was a bit wiped out. I was also totally entertained.
If there are any neuroscientists out there, I’d be curious to know if Cameron’s comment about memory creation in that second paragraph is literally true.
In: Around the Intertubes · Tagged with: James Cameron, Stephen Spielberg