Stereoscopic movies in maya

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# 1 30-10-2004 , 12:40 AM

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guess the title pretty much sums it up. Does anyone know how to create stereoscopic movies with maya (movies that don't require more than simple blue red goggles to see them truly 3d).
Is there a plugin i can use, or a script???

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# 2 30-10-2004 , 12:54 AM

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you could recreate it if you understand how they do it in reality and recreate the effect.

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# 3 30-10-2004 , 05:34 PM

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Well, I don't know the details of how they do it.
Any tips?

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# 4 30-10-2004 , 06:39 PM

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I read somewhere that if you use a program like After Effects for video (or photoshop for stills), just move the red channel a tad out of position (experiement with this). I haven't tested this myself, yet.

Good luck.

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# 5 31-10-2004 , 04:08 AM

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the way it works in real life is: they film the movie with 2 different cameras, one with a blue filter, and one with a red filter. Then they go into something like after effects and compose the film from each camera into one comp. To the naked eye it looks scrambled but put on some red/blue glasses and there you go. This is how I have been told it was done so I am not 100% sure. and as for doing it in maya I have no clue. But with this info you might could figure it out in After Effects.

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# 6 31-10-2004 , 02:24 PM

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Thanks everybody. That much i already know. Does anyone know how far from each other and the scene the cameras should be?

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# 7 31-10-2004 , 07:48 PM

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Der Kaiser is right as far as i know.

The camaras are filmed Right next to each other(the camaras act like your eyes) Camara on the left should have a blue filter i bilieve and camara on the right should be red. The the goggles should either be the same, or opposite.

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# 8 04-11-2004 , 10:29 PM

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Don't know if you've got this working yet, but I just noticed that in the Maya Bonus Tools that you can download from Alias.com, there is a feature called Create Stereo Camera. Mine seems to be broken, but you could look into that.

If you get it working, could you let us know what you did?

Best of luck.

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