Dave Carson – WA3D

WA3D is David Carson and John Reed. They shoot stereoscopic 3D in and around WA and have lots of cool stuff up on their Vimeo page.

Here are quick bios of the main protagonists……

David Carson is a new media artist based in Fremantle. He is currently Artist in Residence at Horizon The Planetarium, in Perth. He has been an active advocate of 3D stereoscopic video in Western Australia since 1996. You can find him at davecarson.net.

John Reed is film maker, musician, geologist. He has been involved in commercial video production via his production company Geopix. He is currently developing several TV documentary projects.

Please tell us, what have you done and what do you do?

We have worked on 3D projects all over Australia but most have been focused on W.A., such as filming the Garnduwa Aboriginal festival in the Kimberly in 3D.

We are talking about Sereoscopic 3D imaging as in the new film Avatar by James Cameron or even A Christmas Carol 3D, starring Jim Carrey. These are full-colour films using polarising glasses to see in 3D.

3D anaglyphs are the red and blue glasses version – you have to process the left and right video clips to see with those old style 50′s glasses, works for monitors and TV or single projectors.

We capture material with two cameras, synchronise left and right fields and use one of the many methods of viewing 3D.

Stereo Pairs (stereoscope: separate display for each eye)
Shutter glasses (most common method)
Color filter glasses (used in some old 3D movies)
Polarizing glasses (used in some modern 3D movies)

We have been doing a lot of timelapse in 3D around Perth, some bands in 3D at the Fly By Night Club in Fremantle and there are a few other interesting projects on the horizon.