Anthony Shafer Part 5: The New Cutting Room

ILM Alumnus and current ImageMovers Digital Stereoscopic Supervisor Anthony Shafer provides a detailed breakdown of the real-time camera acquisition system, camera data-flow pipeline and stereoscopic 3D production workflow used at IMD for Robert Zemeckis’ "A Christmas Carol." Shafer’s extensive body of work includes stints as a sequence supervisor on such films as "Transformers," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest" and the "Star Wars" prequels. As ILM’s Stereoscopic Lead for Tim Burton’s "Nightmare Before Christmas" 2D-to-3D conversion re-release, he designed and wrote a proprietary application that was critical to finishing the show. Topics from this experience are the basis of his chapter on Stereoscopic 2D-to-3D Conversion for the first edition publication of “The VES Handbook of Visual Effects.”