VR180 Blender Open Movie #104414

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Loic-Fr · 2024-06-30T10:26:55+02:00

Loic-Fr commented

2024-06-30 10:26:55 +02:00

Hello everyone,

Would it be possible to offer your films Spring, CHARGE, Cosmos Laundromat and more in VR180?

Indeed, there is not much content in virtual reality headsets, and such videos would be very welcome.

Thank you for considering this request.

Hello everyone, Would it be possible to offer your films Spring, CHARGE, Cosmos Laundromat and more in VR180? Indeed, there is not much content in virtual reality headsets, and such videos would be very welcome. Thank you for considering this request.

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Demeter Dzadik commented

2024-11-12 14:18:04 +01:00

Hi, there are no plans for this, as it would be a massive project to re-imagine and adapt these shortfilms for VR. Not as simple as pressing the VR button.

Demeter Dzadik closed this issue

2024-11-12 14:18:05 +01:00

Loic-Fr commented

2024-11-12 19:58:47 +01:00

Well, actually, almost.

The big step was to add a Panoramic camera and select Equirectangular.
Finally, for Stereoscopy, go to the camera parameters and tick the Stereoscopy box. Set the interocular distance (usually around 6.3 cm) to create the 3D effect.

Well, actually, almost. The big step was to add a Panoramic camera and select Equirectangular. Finally, for Stereoscopy, go to the camera parameters and tick the Stereoscopy box. Set the interocular distance (usually around 6.3 cm) to create the 3D effect.

Demeter Dzadik commented

2024-11-13 13:39:25 +01:00

On purely the technical side, you'd have to figure out which Blender version each shot was rendered with, which will be a different commit for each shot, and any other commit may or may not have bugs and features that the given shot vitally relies on. Spring I think even had its own branch. All those builds have to be built and sent to a render farm, and when you're done, you'll probably have to re-do any compositing that was done in post.

But the bigger challenge, on the artistic side, you're talking about remastering and adapting a film to a completely different medium. You need to throw away all of the composition and camera work that was done for the 2D video, and replace it with a 180 degree FoV at least, which will reveal tons of empty void or worse things that were previously outside of the frame. All of that has to be filled in with artwork. Camera movement has to be re-imagined, since dragging around a viewer's head is much different than cutting the footage on a screen that they're looking at. Same for camera jitter. Then you need to re-adjust a lot of character positions and scales to fix the composition with a completely different camera lens.

On purely the technical side, you'd have to figure out which Blender version each shot was rendered with, which will be a different commit for each shot, and any other commit may or may not have bugs and features that the given shot vitally relies on. Spring I think even had its own branch. All those builds have to be built and sent to a render farm, and when you're done, you'll probably have to re-do any compositing that was done in post. But the bigger challenge, on the artistic side, you're talking about remastering and adapting a film to a completely different medium. You need to throw away all of the composition and camera work that was done for the 2D video, and replace it with a 180 degree FoV at least, which will reveal tons of empty void or worse things that were previously outside of the frame. All of that has to be filled in with artwork. Camera movement has to be re-imagined, since dragging around a viewer's head is much different than cutting the footage on a screen that they're looking at. Same for camera jitter. Then you need to re-adjust a lot of character positions and scales to fix the composition with a completely different camera lens.

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