Backstage pass: The gravity-defying changeover

February 18th, 2014
Alfonso Cuaron's Sandra Bullock, George Clooney space drama “Gravity” has received 10 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, was partly shot in 3D, but it was converted to the format from 2D by Prime Focus India. For creating space spectacle 400 technicians from the Indian branch of Prime Focus, a company that specializes in rendering visual effects, animation and 3D-conversion, worked tandem with teams from London and Los Angeles.
He says "The long, unbroken, floating camera-shots which Cuaron worked on translated spectacularly well in space, and led to us producing the longest continuous shot that we believe has ever been converted - 15,531 frames, or 10 minutes 47 seconds of screen-time".
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