Extreme Cash Robot Review: What's Right and Wrong with 3D Today: An Interview with 3D Imaging Consultant, Nick Constable

Thursday, March 24, 2011

What's Right and Wrong with 3D Today: An Interview with 3D Imaging Consultant, Nick Constable

Explore3DTV's Matt Whitlock got a chance to speak to Nick Constable, stereoscopic 3D imaging consultant and guest Explore3DTV contributor, for fascinating one-on-one chat covering a wide variety of 3D topics. Read the full interview below where they discuss Robert Murch's letter to Roger Ebert, James Cameron's plans to solve 3D woes by shooting at high frame rates, pitfalls of 3D today, and much more. Matt Whitlock: Let's first start off by talking about you, the 3D projects you've worked on, and a little bit about yourself. Nick Constable: I'm Nick Constable, and I'm a stereoscopic 3D imaging consultant and screenwriter. I'm also a free agent and invented some products as well. I started doing 3D in the year 2000, when I produced and directed a live-action short 3D film that was hailed as having some really good effects. I've worked with some major, very seasoned stereographers in the past, and I have close associations with them today. For still 3D photography I developed a product called "REELMaster 3D" which are blank mounts used by people who create their own View-Master style reels. The machine that once made View-Master blank reel mounts was basically destroyed so I came up with the...