Topic: 3D Brickfilming tutorial

Software/Hardware you will need -

1 Webcam

Monkey Jam (Software) http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.c … index.html

3D Image Merger - http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/

Steady hand (Optional : zoom/pan feature on webcam)

An application (Built in webcam software?) Or any application you prefer. Monkey jam is not suggested.

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[size=4] Still Images [/size]

To create a still image for a poster or something..

First you use whichever application you wish to use to take the picture for your still.

Now when in that application Anaglyph 3d which is RED AND CYAN 3D that needs glasses uses left and right images.

So you put your camera on your scene that you wish to 3D.

http://i45.tinypic.com/xehl3r.png

Then take a picture of your still scene.

That will be your Left Image..

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Now slide your camera gently to the right make sure not to pull it back or forward. DIRECTLY Right.. About half an inch.. Barely moving it but just enough to make a small difference in the image.

http://i45.tinypic.com/33m30pu.png

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Then take a picture.

This is your right eye image.

Take both the images and open up the 3d merger.

Go to File > Open Left/Right Images...

And locate your two images. One left.. One right.. Once you find them Click the left one then let go Then hold the shift key and hit the 2nd one it should now have both of them in the box with the names.. Or drag and drop a box over them by holding the left mouse key and dragging over the 2 files.

Now hit open. (Optional : Hit swap left and right.. This will reverse the images making the right the left image sometimes this makes the 3d better)

It will automatically merge the 2 in a red and cyan 3D but at the top bar you can change it to be side by side gray or different color 3d or cross eyed or any type of 3d you could possibly want.

When you find the correct type of 3d you wish to use and the still looks as you like you go to File > Save Stereo image

And save the image to where you wish and then you now have a 3D Still image.

Then go to photoshop throw some text and other things you can google how to do 3d anaglyph texts for more eye popping features and then you have yourself a nice promotional poster.

such as this example - http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4724/picture95o.jpg

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[Size=5] Stop motion animating -- Brickfilming in[/size] [Size = 8] THREE DEE!![/size]

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Re: 3D Brickfilming tutorial

If you have a LEGO rig, you can use some LEGO bricks to make a slide-left-to-right setup. The basic idea would be something like this.

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/BertL/stuff2/10-05/rigsetup.png
(All the plates are smooth no-stud plates.)

With a similar construction all around the 4x1 plate. You can put the 3x1 brick under your rig, and put it in the lowered groove you just created. This way, your rig can only slide one stud to the left (or right depending on where it is). Just slide it one way and back every frame and you have yourself a pretty steady 3D setup. The setup as I posted above can be fitted onto a 8x6 studded plate.

I tested this setup a couple of years ago and it works pretty well though it's not perfect.

Re: 3D Brickfilming tutorial

BertL wrote:

If you have a LEGO rig, you can use some LEGO bricks to make a slide-left-to-right setup. The basic idea would be something like this.

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/BertL/stuff2/10-05/rigsetup.png
(All the plates are smooth no-stud plates.)

With a similar construction all around the 4x1 plate. You can put the 3x1 brick under your rig, and put it in the lowered groove you just created. This way, your rig can only slide one stud to the left (or right depending on where it is). Just slide it one way and back every frame and you have yourself a pretty steady 3D setup. The setup as I posted above can be fitted onto a 8x6 studded plate.

I tested this setup a couple of years ago and it works pretty well though it's not perfect.

I planned to go very deep into different rigs and ways to capture 3d later in the thread ill write it in a bit