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Big Buck Bunny In 4K, 60 Fps and 3D-stereo
An anonymous reader writes "Blender Foundation open movie projects like Sintel and Tears of Steel have been mentioned on Slashdot in the recent years. Now an old-timer, their open movie Big Buck Bunny from 2008, has been getting a make-over in a new release: The entire movie has been recreated in 3D stereo with a resolution of 4K (3840x2160) at 60fps. It took years to rework the movie because the original Big Buck Bunny was created for 2D. Most of the scenes had to be modified to work well in 3D stereo. Furthermore, the original movie was made for cinemas and was 24fps; a lot of changes to the animations had to be made to get the correct results. The creator of the reworked version explains about it on BlenderNation where he also talks about the fact that the entire movie was rendered via an online collaborative renderfarm, BURP, where volunteers provided spare CPU cycles to make it happen. If you want to see how your computer measures up to playing 4K content in 60 fps you can download the reworked movie from the official homepage — lower resolutions are also available."
My kids enjoyed it quite a bit, watching it several times and will certainly want to see the 'upgraded' edition. What more do can you ask for in an animated short?
The reviews are great: "My wife and I bought this after selling our daughter Amanda into white slavery. "
Skip that, it is only outputting 4k 24Hz over HDMI. Plays fine on the 2880x1800 monitor and I'm sure will play fine on the 4k DP monitors in the studio which we edit 4k and 6k at 48fps all the time.
I didn't mean that the plot has to be complex. Big Buck Bunny is just a simple plot done bad.
Is this full 3D at 60fps, or is this the 4K equivalent of HRF3D like the Hobbit which will simply show 30fps to each eye alternating?
The Hobbit is 48 frames per second per eye, and is projected "double flashed":
Each stereo pair is shown twice, alternating between left and right.
So the projector is actually projecting 192 images per second.
Standard 24Hz stereoscopic content by the way is projected triple flashed, resulting
in 144 images per second.
Nice amount of in-depth detail here:
http://www.avnetwork.com/latest/0013/hfrbehind-the-scenes-of-a-major-video-projection-rollout/91486