The course is made up of four main sections

Concepts and Theory

• Overview to stereo
• Stereo terminology
• Parallel vs. Convergence
• Interaxial vs. interocular separation
• Understanding parallax, occlusion and disparity
• Things to avoid in stereo
• Methods of converting 2D footage to stereo

3D

• Creating stereo cameras
• Editing stereo cameras
• Custom stereo rigs
• Multi-camera stereo rigs
• Linking a stereo camera to a set of objects
• Building models for a projection conversion setup
• Animating models for a projection conversion setup
• Multipass stereo rendering

Compositing

• Setup up for stereo workflow
• Loading stereo footage
• Working with stereo footage in the Viewer
• Splitting of the left and right eyes*
• Editing and swapping the left and right eyes
• Rotoscoping for stereo
• Colour correction for stereo
• 3D creation and stereo rendering
• Converting images to Anaglyph
• Adjusting the convergence
• Tracking stereo live action plates*
• Adding 3D stereo renders into stereo live action plate
• Converting 2D material to stereo
  • Pulfrich effect / Time off-set
  • Depth maps
  • Matte splitting
• 3D projection
• Dealing with problematic areas
• Preview and rendering stereo composites

The course requires some knowledge of Autodesk's Maya for the 3D section and either The Foundry's Nuke or eyeon's Fusion for the Compositing part.

Ocula is only available for Nuke and so if you choose to do the course using Fusion this part will be missed unless you are interested in looking at it.

* Only available if using Nuke

3 days training course £1,500 (+VAT @ 17.5%)