Inspiring 3D Movies

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Inspiring 3D Movies

It occurred to me that there are certain movies that blow my mind w.r.t. the 3D special effects, and we might have fun comparing notes and listing them.

At the top of my list right now would be:
  • Tangled — insanely good hair (obviously) and water, wonderful animated acting, also the "look" is magnificent, it's like an animated painting.
  • Ratatouille — fluid sims, wet fur, crowd scenes; just a wonderful (too many wonderfuls?) movie altogether.
  • John Carter — raising the bar, again, set by LoTR and Avatar for convincing digital actors (actually more convincing than the humans in some cases, because the wire effects for low gravity sucked).

Some older movies include Final Fantasy (terrible movie, great 3D for the time, also their contribution to Animatrix was even better and shorter. The Appleseed movie looked great but was also terrible.

I'm sure there are a ton of films I've never even heard of (especially shorts).

Thoughts?
 
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Some 3D movies I find inspiring:

  • Horton hears a who: nice smooth flexible animation
  • How to train a dragon: super fire effects!
  • Robots: great mechanical stuff with a retro look. great textures!
  • Legend of the guardians: best realistic bird animations I've seen
  • Meet the Robinsons: superb acting / character animation (bowler hat guy!)
  • Finding nemo: nice (underwater) lighting
  • over the hedge: great fur
  • Wall-E: nice clutter, dust, ...
  • ...
 
I didn't want to list every Pixar movie / Disney movie since Lasseter took over ;-) But hey, Bolt is great too. You're right to highlight the underwater stuff in Nemo.

The fur in Ratatouille is amazing — wet fur, damp fur, fur in water, scruffy fur, fur on ridiculous numbers of rats.
 
Let me just say that while the fur on the rats in Ratatouille was great and should definitely be appreciated, it really started with Monsters Inc., where they had to figure out how to render something like a hundred thousand or more hair strands. :)

Tangled, definitely. There's just so much they got right with that film. :D

And as long as you're going for inspiring, how about the Transformers movie franchise? The story may stink, but the robots are incredible! I've been trying to model Optimus Prime for a good two to three years, and if that doesn't say something about how inspiring those robots are I don't know what will. :D

-- GS.
 
I saw Prometheus 3D last weekend. The sets, locations, special effects and restrained use of stereoscopic 3D made it a real visual treat.
 
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'Hugo' was marvelous - best I've ever seen. The immersive quality of the 3-D was incredible. Keep in mind that, at 60, I've just started seeing in 3-D after vision therapy, so I take the 3-D experience very seriously! ;-)
I would love the see 'Avatar' in 3-D... I was not seeing in stereo when it was out in the theaters and would love to see it, even if the effects were not as subtly used as in 'Prometheus..' In the theater, the trailer to 'The Lorax' looked amazing, but I didn't go see it.
 
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Most movies I've seen in 3D are actively annoying. E.g. I saw the Avengers in 3D and wished I hadn't (loved it, but the 3D was not a positive feature). Restraint is crucial, and also I think the speed of motion needs to be adjusted for 3D. (The fact that Martin Scorcese said that making Hugo required him to relearn movie-making from the ground up suggests to me that other directors are simply treating it as a checklist feature.)

Avatar is an example of a movie which is better in 3D. (The worst thing about Avatar was the typography for the subtitles — I hope Cameron redoes it one day.) Amazing as Avatar is/was, it's been outdone in virtually every respect already, e.g. the aliens and creatures in John Carter are more convincing (pity about the script...).

There are plenty of movies that have a good 3D shot or two in them today (almost every movie...) but it's really something to see one that is virtually flawless from start to finish, well-acted, and so forth (cough — Tangled, anything by Pixar except Cars 2 — cough).

Looking forward to Brave (fingers crossed).
 
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Most movies I've seen in 3D are actively annoying. E.g. I saw the Avengers in 3D and wished I hadn't (loved it, but the 3D was not a positive feature). Restraint is crucial, and also I think the speed of motion needs to be adjusted for 3D. (The fact that Martin Scorcese said that making Hugo required him to relearn movie-making from the ground up suggests to me that other directors are simply treating it as a checklist feature.)

Avatar is an example of a movie which is better in 3D. (The worst thing about Avatar was the typography for the subtitles — I hope Cameron redoes it one day.) Amazing as Avatar is/was, it's been outdone in virtually every respect already, e.g. the aliens and creatures in John Carter are more convincing (pity about the script...).

There are plenty of movies that have a good 3D shot or two in them today (almost every movie...) but it's really something to see one that is virtually flawless from start to finish, well-acted, and so forth (cough — Tangled, anything by Pixar except Cars 2 — cough).

Looking forward to Brave (fingers crossed).
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Is this about 3-D or 3D? :tongue:

-- GS.
 
I have to admit I don't watch a lot of animated films and have little to no interest in regular movies being shown in "3d."

Just last night, though, I saw David Fincher's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and was really excited by the opening sequence. I thought it was more impressive than the actual film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL30ovEdf8M

Another cool 3d sequence I saw on the web was from a short film called ROSA. Don't know where I came across it - maybe a post from this forum?

http://www.blendernation.com/2011/11/22/rosa/
 
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