After being teased by Disney for 2 years, they finally announced the releases of their dimensionalised animated classics “The Beauty and the Best” and “The Lion King”.
Walt Disney Animation Studios worked on this flicks because these were the firsts of their drawn full features to be all mastered digitally with a program made by Pixar in the eighties (named CAPS). They had all the original animated files on a computer, so it was rather convenient for them to experiment with some new technique to create depth data into these flat pictures, of course, the process was painstaking but from the test footage showed at pasts ShoWest conventions, it worked quite well.
However, instead of releasing these films on theaters, they are going straight to the blu-ray 3D market. I don’t know if this is a smart choice, but at least they are releasing them to the masses..
They are set to be released this fall.
Here’s the full press release after the jump
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Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland 3D is coming out tomorrow on 3D blu-ray with a special package including a regular DVD version, 2D blu-ray and a digital copy. Perfect for the holidays.
The regular blu-ray includes a lot of bonus content as “making of” material. Pretty cool to see how Burton’s twisted vision came to life.
I really enjoyed the movie, even if the 3D was post-converted, it looked just fine. Of course, Tim Burton should had filmed it with 3D native cameras, but they did a good job (unlike Clash of the Titans…).
There are much more blu-ray 3D releases coming out very soon. Please check out my special page dedicated on 3D blu-ray titles, I keep it updated frequently.
Unversal’s Despicable Me will get a blu-ray release in 3D on December 14. It will launch with the standard 2D version
The movie, animated by French animation studio Illumination Entertainment, tells the story of a super villain, Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) who tries to shrink the moon, but can’t manage to get a bank loan to do his evil plan, so he tries to steal a powerful shrinkable gun with the help of 3 little orphan girls, but then something happens…
The movie was pretty fun, and it did pretty well with the audience. I didn’t saw it in 3D, but I’m curious to see how well it works. Can’t wait to check it out.
