We are excited to share with you the first ever 3D video of humans and wild dolphins dancing together.
Anaglyph 3D still of Chisa and Yuki with Hugs and Kisses
If you have a pair of good old Red/Cyan 3D glasses, you can watch this video right on your computer (and if you don’t have a pair, we can send one to you). If you have a 3D TV it will look even better. There are instructions for 3D viewing at the end of this blog post and in the comments under the YouTube video.
We make our films to provide an experience where you actually feel what is being exchanged and communicated between the dolphins and the dancers. The 3D effect seems to enhance that feeling substantially by providing the sensation of actually being under the water with them.
We’d love to hear what you think. Feel free to post a comment below or on our FB page.
If you don’t have 3D glasses, or you just want to compare and contrast, you can watch a high quality 2D version here:
Ultimately, our ambition is to share this experience and its story on giant screens in educational venues like discovery centers, natural history museums – all of these almost exclusively screen 3D films. So we decided to see for ourselves, how it might look … and we built our own custom 3D rig, with two high definition cameras, some optimistic thinking, and a fraction of what we would pay to use a commercial system.
After seeing the results, we are more enthusiastic than ever about seeing this work in giant screen venues. While we build the financial support we will need to do a feature shoot with a commercial system, we are also considering how we can share this 3D experience using our custom rig, perhaps by creating installations using 3D televisions.
We recorded this footage during our rehearsals this summer (see our last blog post). In addition to Hugs and Kisses, we were joined by a mother dolphin – who we refer to as Flower – and her less than one year old baby, Buds. In the close up shot, as Hugs hogs the camera, you can see Buds making a successful loop with Yuki by staying very close to mom.
(To learn more about how dolphin babies learn to dance with humans from their moms, see our previous video – Introducing Jalapeño.)
We want to give a big shout out of thanks to our dancers. We so appreciate their talent and commitment. It is thanks to their extraordinary ability to establish a moving relationship with the dolphins and with each other, that we are able to see a connection between species we might otherwise think impossible. We also want to thank Sophie Ellen for contributing a track from her debut album as our sound track.
We are immensely grateful to our donors who helped to make this experiment possible (and also to the extraordinary high seas skills of Captain Scott).
HOW TO WATCH IN 3D:
You can watch on your computer wearing Red/Cyan glasses, but the quality of the 3D effect and the image will be much better on a proper 3D TV.
To watch on your computer with Red/Cyan glasses (If you don’t have a pair, we can send one to you: donate through our online store):
1) Open the Youtube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrLsn7vIlrY
2) Go to the pop up menu in the ‘cog wheel’ at the lower right hand corner and choose 3D
3) Under ‘Options’ choose ‘Full Color’ and ‘Red/Cyan’.
4) If your internet connection and computer are reasonably fast, you’ll want to view in 1080HD.
5) Be sure to watch in Full Screen. If the image is too small, you won’t see the 3D effect.
To watch on a 3D Television with the specific glasses it requires:
1) If your TV is connected to the Internet, you can use the YouTube app to watch the video. Open the YouTube app on your TV and type in the identifier: UrLsn7vIlrY.
OR
2) Otherwise, you can connect your computer directly to your TV and play the YouTube video in Full Screen. Choose the 3D option ‘side by side’ rather than Red/Cyan.
3) Use the TV remote to choose to convert 2D ‘side by side’ to 3D.
posted by Ben Harley
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