Jet Stream - 2D Animation for s3D Presentation
For my senior Honors thesis, I created an animation test that uses the Z-Fill method, a workflow I developed for converting hand-drawn animation to stereoscopic 3D animation. The test was developed from Jet Stream, a short film I wrote and storyboarded. The final animation combines line drawings and CG animation in a new way to create 3D animation.
If you have 3D glasses, you can watch my animation in 3D below.
The Z-Fill Method
The Z-Fill method combines hand-drawn animation and CG animation to create stereoscopic 3D.
Production starts with CG animation, designed with hand-drawn animation in mind.
Next, the CG animation is drawn over to create the hand-drawn look.
I created the software Shift in conjunction with Joel Hollingsworth of Elon University to handle stereoscopic conversion. The program combines grayscale image data with the hand-drawn animation to create stereoscopic image pairs.
Finally, the animation is composited and rendered for s3D.
And that's it!