3D Short Film: Two Colours / Three Dimensions - Draw&Code - Andy Cooper / Stephen Chan

Two Colours / Three Dimensions is a fun short animation with a playful approach to anaglyph colors and retinal rivalry.

Concept and Animation - Andy Cooper (Draw&Code) drawandcode.com
Artwork - Stephen Chan stephen-chan.co.uk Music : Boom Bip - Track : Soft and Open - Album : Blue Eyed In The Red Room - boombip.net

KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival accepting 3D Shorts

KLIK!, an animation festival based in Amsterdam, is accepting 3D animated shorts. See the press release below for info on how to enter. Deadline is July 1st!

PRESS RELEASE May 28th 2013
For immediate release

The KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival is in search of the newest 3-D stereoscopic animated shorts

This is a call to all 3-D stereoscopic animators! Nowadays visual media, especially film, cannot be imagined without the extensive use of stereoscopy. While the 3-D revolution advances further in every field, the (independent) animated short in particular keeps utilizing the technique in an innovative way, exploring its influence on and place in a films' narrative. The KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival has been following the evolution of stereoscopy with great interest and introduced a 3-D Stereoscopic Animation Competition to their international animation competition last year. The competition turned out to be a great success, leaving the audience in awe of the value that stereoscopy can add to a story. This year the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival proudly organizes the 3-D Stereoscopic Animation Competition for the second time.

Among other competitions, the 3-D Stereoscopic Animation Competition for the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2013 is accepting submissions until July 1st. So don’t forget to submit your newest 3-D stereoscopic animated short before it’s too late! Submitting is free. You can submit your animation either by sending a Blu-ray by old-fashioned mail or by e-mailing a plain simple (3-D!) YouTube/Vimeo link. A submission’s running time shouldn’t exceed 25 minutes and it has to be produced later than January 1st, 2012. Aside from the 3-D category you submit to, your entry will also automatically compete for the KLIK! Amsterdam Audience Award.

Submit your 3-D stereoscopic animated short through KLIK!’s website: http://klikamsterdam.nl/submit2013_page.php

Oh, and don’t forget to make your envelope a piece of art for a shot at the Most Awesome Envelope Award! After submitting you can start crossing your fingers, until the official selection gets published in August.

About KLIK!
The KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival is an annual animation festival that will be celebrating its sixth edition this year in EYE, the new filmmuseum, in Amsterdam, Holland. The greatest and latest animation will be accompanied by a wide variety of masterclasses, theme programs, parties and activities. Last year’s international animation competition received over 1200 submissions from 71 different countries.

BE FILM 3D CATEGORY TO SHOWCASE WORLD PREMIERES, 3D HFR 60p and 4K3D

   

NEW YORK, April 23, 2013

Continuing its tradition of groundbreaking excellence in 2D and 3D short films, the BE FILM Underground Film Festival 3D Stereoscopic category will feature several World and US premieres during its April 23-27 run in New York City.

The festival, now in its 10th year and 5th year of the 3D Category, will feature many world and U.S. premieres, as well as the debut of a 3D 60p HFR short and a 4K 3D short.

3D Short Films In Competition:

5m80 ( Animation ) Dir. Nicolas Devaux - World Premiere

ATMOSPHERE ( experimental ) Dir. Ikuo Nakamura - World Premiere

BEHIND THE SCREEN ( narrative ) Dir. Thomas Rio - US Premiere

EVERY ROSE HAS A NAME (experimental) Dir. Jeanne Guillot - World Premiere

FLAMINGO PRIDE 3D ( animation ) Dir. - Tomer Eshed - US Premiere

FORGET ME NOT ( narrative ) Dir Josephine Derobe - World Premiere

GENESIS ( experimental ) Dir. Noah Shulman - World Premiere

HORN QUEST ( narrative) Dir. Ryan Suits - World Premiere

LAPSE OF TIME ( narrative ) Dir. Celine Tricart - World Premiere

STEREOSCOPIC ADS ( specs ) Dir. Ben Dolphin - World Premiere

THE MOMMY CHAPTERS ( experimental ) Dir. Claudia Kunin - World Premiere

VERTIGE (narrative) Dir. Mathieu Brisebras & Christophe Gautry - US Premiere

Stereographers featured include:

• Josephine Derobe (Pina, Diary Of A Fridge)
• Jeanne Guillot (Amazonia, Makay, Pop’pea)
• Ryan Suits (Plasticity, De-Visions)
• Alonso Homs (The Great Gatsby)
• Ikuo Nakamura (Easter Island 3D)
• Celine Tricart (Derriere les murs, Reminicence)

Be Film announces dates for 2013

Be Film is back, and this year their 3D category is now accepting 48fps and 60fps HFR 3D films!

I'm a big fan of Be Film, not only because they've premiered some of my own short films, but also because they were the first and remain one of the few mainstream short film festivals to play 3D films during the same screenings as 2D shorts, some of which have won Academy Awards.

Returning sponsors include Dolby Production Services and Cyclopital 3D. See the full press release below.

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BE FILM ANNOUNCES DATES FOR 2013 EDITION OF THE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL


New York, NY (Feb 21) Be Film The Underground Film Festival-BTUFF announced Its dates for its 10th Edition: April 23 -27, 2013 Opening Night Party and Screening will take place at the prestigious Dolby Screening Room on 55th St & 6th Avenue Tuesday, April 23rd at 6:00pm.

 The 10th Annual Be Film The Underground Film Festival - BTUFF, continuing its lauded reputation as "the underground film festival" by honoring extraordinary short films and drawing them the exposure and circulation they richly deserve. Recognized by MovieMaker Magazine as one of "25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee" and praised for its "focus on forward-thinking artists," BE FILM has presented more than 1,000 short films from more than 30 countries across the globe and regularly takes full advantage of some of the best screening and social venues in New York City.

BE FILM welcomes terrific short-form works across all genres and creative forms, and it is proud to have been the first shorts festival in the world to introduce a "Stereoscopic 3D" category for filmmakers eager to stretch their craft into entirely new dimensions. Several of the festival's official selections have gone on to the highest levels of industry success and have nabbed Academy Awards, BAFTA awards, and Moliere Awards, as well as numerous additional honors. Just ask writer-director Ari Sandel, whose short musical comedy West Bank Story stole hearts at Be Film and then took home the gold on Oscar night.

BE FILM winners take home prizes-ranging in value from $500 to $5000 USD-from a slew of generous sponsors. Energized opening and closing night parties book-end the festival and re-enforce BE FILM's commitment to community, artistry, and the development of invaluable networking opportunities and relationships.

MISSION AND OBJECTIVE
Be Film The Underground Film Festival - BTUFF is a New York City forum for independent filmmakers, worldwide, and celebrates the best short-form, cinematic expressions to hit the screens.

MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Dedicated to championing great films for worldwide distribution, BE FILM is proud to screen its selected shorts in some of the best venues available today, including the Disney Park Avenue Screening Room, the Dolby Screening Room, and the Crosby Screening Room.

3D Film: The Breast Around in Triple Dee (NSFW)

Atomic Cheesecake Productions released The Breast Around in Triple Dee, a sexploitation flick of epic proportions, starring London Andrews and directed by award-winning filmmaker Ryan Suits.

Chastitty Jones' miraculous discovery of a cure for breast cancer comes with a deadly consequence - a doppelganger bent on infecting the planet! With the odds stacked against her, and armed with only her wits, Chastitty must unleash the power of her greatest assets to defeat Melonoma's mutatious ways. Statuesque superstar London Andrews doubles as both buxom heroine and vivacious villainess in the ultimate Russ Meyer-esque battle of the boobs.

London Andrews is a plus-sized nude model who has worked with hundreds of photographers across the US. Her portfolio is available on Model Mayhem.

Netflix begins streaming 3D movies

Today's announcement by Netflix is a game-changer. Something they're calling "Super HD" is now available on their streaming service. Oh, and 3D.

Currently 3D streaming is limited to ISPs in Netflix's Open Connect network in the US, and only a handful of titles are available. My own ISP is not part of this yet, so as of writing this I have not tested the service myself.

Netflix offering 3D is a major step towards the success of 3D in the home. While several 3DTV apps with indie content exist, and have content not available anywhere else, Netflix embracing 3D is good both for filmmakers wanting to reach a larger audience and consumers wanting to access 3D films without spending the high price point of Blu-ray 3D.

 Read the full press release after the jump.

NHK Media Technology proposes new 3D broadcast standard

NHK Media Technology announced a proposal for Advanced Stereo 3D, a new 3D broadcast format at CES. This new format has the advantage of two separate left/right streams at full HD, instead of the current side-by-side squeezed format, which has half the horizontal resolution of full 1080p. This would also allow the same broadcast to be watched in 2D on 2D TV sets. According to this video from DigInfo, NHK has submitted this to ARIB, an organization that determines broadcast standards.