Recently, I finished a 3D filmmaking course at UCLA taught by Keith Collea. It was tricky trying to weave the course into my professional workload, but I figured it out, having only missed just under half the classes (yikes!). To be fair, our professor missed about the same number as he was shooting in Mexico. Here are some photos…

Joey Romero from Element Technica, showing two Red cameras mounted in their beam splitter rig, the Quasar. One Red is vertically-mounted and the other is horizontally-mounted. This allows you to “overlap” the center of the lens barrels and reduce the interocular distance in contrast to a side-by-side rig which limits you to the physical sizes of the lens barrels as they eventually “bump” into each other.

Calibrating and dialing in the point of convergence on an external monitor.

Using an anaglyph display mode easily allows you to see parallax (distance between left and right images).

Two Reds in side-by-side configuration.

Keith Collea.

Notice that the closest you can shove the lenses together provides an I/O distance not less than 3 inches or so.

We shot some test footage at Keith’s sound stage and eventually screened it at LightIron Digital, one of the world’s 3D powerhouses.

There I am on the right, wearing tan Carhartts. The point of convergence is roughly on that red trash can in the middle of the frame, which is where the slate should have been (as you can see, it is heavily parallaxed).

I decided that if I was going to be 3D, I wanted to be a 3D zombie, and the others followed my lead.