Darth Editous said:
This last screen is what I am most proud of, when you're wearing your 3D glasses everything pops and really has depth to it.
I don't want to rain on your parade, but... okay, the remote sticks out a bit, as does Luke's arm, but everything else, including the console in the foreground, is at exactly the same depth.
This is just nice crips letters floating through space. Classic.
Floating at the same depth as the stars with no recession into the background - it looks like the two images are identical and just offset.
As for the explosion and training images, as far as I can tell you've just taken adjacent frames, offset them slightly, and channel-mixed them to red and cyan. Such a technique might give you a hint of a 3D effect in, say, one scene out of ten, but for the vast majority of the film your brain's just going to be confused.
DE
For your first part, yes it does look exactly like that. But a few things of explaination to maybe help you understand what I am doing.
3D isn't a science, and I know where your getting at. My 3D is basic cutting certain images and making them background or fore ground. It isn't going to be like Avatar, James Cameron specifically shot that in 3D so you can have extreme depth to where things look rounded rather than just cutouts. It is physically impossible for me to make this look like Avatar 3D without a multimillion dollar budget because you would have to literally build 3D figures and then drape the video over these figures, basically you would have to rebuild every set and chacter scene by scene, but attach the original video to it. I would love to do this, it would be incredible to do, but unfortuantly I don't have the time or budget, but if your willing to donate a few million I'll get right on it. :)
Now for the explosions and the rest of it, these screenshots were taking as the video was playing, I did not take screen shots then convert the picture, this is real time what it looks like. BUt also 3D only truly works when in motion, otherwise as you can tell there are obvious levels of depth rather than a physical rounded off feeling. Which I explained how it can be done above.
This is what I can do with what I am working with.
A side note to everyone else, I do believe we have 5 copies taken for sure, maybe 7 but I need a confirmation from the others here. So at most, 30 freebies left!
Also an update to what I am doing, I am current having my computer run it's balls off in converting about 3 different versions right now. I have Wookiegrommers, I have the "Original Theatrical Release DVD" version and I have the 1997 version. When they are all finished I will be watching them all to see what ones really give the best 3D effect for you all.
Also I am researching just how many deleted scenes there were to make sure I can all the good versions hopefully converted. I know lots of them are pretty crumby and grainy, but I'll do my best.
-Kamyio