Krellion’s Geek Journal – 11/20/2009
Welcome to this week’s post of my Geek Journal!
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Keeping it short this week with a review of Disney’s latest version of A Christmas Carol. I managed to see the IMAX 3D version and was quite impressed. The CG was done in a photo-realistic way, similar to The Polar Express, but it managed to keep the characters looking just cartoony enough to avoid what is known as the “uncanny valley” most of the time. It also managed to avoid the “dead eye” issue that Express had and it looked like the animators paid quite a bit of attention to making sure the eyes were animated correctly. The film did the usual “hey, we’re 3D” thing by having objects coming out of the screen at the audience (it wasn’t too overdone and the falling snow was a nice effect) and had a flying sequence for each ghost’s visit to play to the IMAX audiences.
The only real issue I had with the film was the IMAX 3D presentation itself. With non-IMAX films that are released in 3D, Disney (and most others) use RealD, which uses circular-polarized glasses (left eye is counter-clockwise, right is clockwise), while IMAX 3D uses standard polarized glasses where the lenses’ polarization are set 90 degrees from each other. The circular method is much better than the standard because it’s not affected by the viewer’s head being tilted left or right, which will cause the other eye’s image to start bleeding over in the standard method. So the whole time watching the film, I had to make sure to keep my head in the proper position. I may avoid IMAX 3D presentations in the future due to this.
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That’s it for this week’s post!
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