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3D is the new Black

Surprise! “Thor” & “Captain America” Will Be In 3D!

An article in the The Los Angeles Times confirms this, in an article on both Marvel Studios projects.

We are not surprised, hopefully it won't be processed as poorly as Clash of the Titans was.

"However, both movies will use 2-D for principal photography, meaning they’ll later be converted to 3D! And we all know how that’s worked out in recent films that weren’t shot in native 3D, and were later converted."

Uh Oh!

But ... “the considerable special effects for the films were conceived and executed from the beginning in 3-D, something that will help them avoid certain pitfalls…“

“We came to feel that in our case 3-D could be the very good friend of story and character for a different kind of experience,” said Thor director, Kenneth Branagh.

Branagh rarely makes a bad film, so we're looking towards the brightside. What do you think?

Both Branagh and Captain America director, Joe Johnston will make presentations at Comic-Con!

The images we've seen so far of Odin and the Asgard Gang look interestingly... flashy. Let's hope no one forgets the Iconic helmets for Loki and Thor.

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'Inception' Paris Cafe Scene: Cinematographer Reveals All

via MTV.com

The Paris café scene where Leo and Ellen Page stroll the streets as the city folds in on them. Created by employing a serious combination of visual and practical effects.

"That particular material is where we really dive into the surreal and things go a little wacko," Pfister explained. "In this case, Chris really wanted to ramp up the visual effects and do something that would have people sit back and go, 'Wow, what the f--- is going on?' "

Mission accomplished. DiCaprio and Page sit at a café, which is actually a figment of Page's dream. As they talk, huge, fireless explosions pop all around them in slow motion. Then, as the pair begins to walk, Page starts to experiment with the elastic physical world of her dream. She raises up entire streets — buildings, people, cars and all — until everything folds up into a fantastical cube of Parisian life. It is nothing short of staggering.

To generate those explosions, the film's special-effects supervisor, Chris Corbould, rigged up a series of air cannons that launched debris into the air. To achieve the right slow-motion effect, Pfister made use of a specialized camera.

"We shot it with super-high-speed Photo-Sonics cameras to get that material floating in the air," Pfister said of equipment that can capture 1,500 frames a second, in contrast to regular film's 24 frames a second. The extra frames allowed the filmmakers to slow the frame rate to a virtual crawl.

Then in came Paul Franklin, the film's visual-effects supervisor, who employed computer graphics to extend the debris and create more of a floating effect. Franklin and his team also hit the city streets with still cameras to record what would become the basis for the folding effects' photo-realistic feel. The folding streets were built entirely through CGI, a process so complex that the effort was begun a full eight months before the movie's release.

"The whole thing had a very naturalistic style to the photography, to the lighting, to the camera movement, so that it would feel very real and very grounded," Pfister said. "And on top of all that, we pulled off a very intricate bit of effects trickery."

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3D is the new Black

Surprise! “Thor” & “Captain America” Will Be In 3D!

Inside Inception

'Inception' Paris Cafe Scene: Cinematographer Reveals All

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