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Here’s a quick reminder of Short & Sweet 3D – London’s first short film festival that is happening at the Barbican on Friday 16th July.

Enhanced Dimensions were commissioned to create the stereo 3D Idents for the Courvoisier sponsored festival. The creative is based on the Short & Sweet 3D Cube print & online design – taking the logos pseudo 3d look and extending it into the next dimension. On the night the short 3D movies and bumpers will use the ExpanD system for viewing the animations in all their glory but if you’d like to preview the 3D bumpersyou can do so using anaglyph glasses on our Vimeo Stereoscopic 3D Channel or Enhanced Dimensions YouTube Channel right now.

Enhanced Dimensions award winning 3d short film “FourPlay” will be screened at this years Los Angeles 3D Movie Fest. It is tentatively scheduled to show during the first block of films around 1pm (LA time). If you’re in the area and would like to attend the festival advance tickets are on sale now from the festival website.

For more details visit the Los Angeles 3D Movie Fest site.

Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D DVD

This months 3D prize pack consists of the family favourite “Journey to The Centre of The Earth 3D” DVD starring Brendan Fraser plus a complete set of Enhanced Dimensions’ retro style groovy 3D Birthday Cards supplied with glasses and envelopes.

In order to enter simply answer the following question:

• On which planet is Avatar set?

Email your answer to 3dprizes@enhanced-dimensions.com by midnight on 31st January 2010 to stand a chance to win. The competition is only open to UK residents, please check terms and conditions for more details on eligibility.

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One should normally be sceptical of any praise that a 3D film receives from a 3D enthusiasts website – however I must admit to having genuine worries that with so much riding on this film with its profile of being the “make-or-break 3D movie”  for the entire new generation of 3D entertainment that I almost didn’t want to see it in case it let us all down. So I genuinely approached the furore surrounding Avatar with a healthy dose of scepticism.

With early trailers and sequences I had concerns that this looked a little too like some 1970’s Roger Dean album sleeves brought to life with Jar Jar Binks style characters – I wasn’t convinced that this was going to live up to the hype. With the 3D crowd so enthused and swooning over every new clip and trailer that James Cameron released I was all to ready for this to be a Heaven’s Gate moment.

However after seeing the film yesterday I must admit that my concerns were unfounded – this film is stunning! It’s emotionally engaging, beautifully realised and although a little thin and obvious on the plot side, it really managed to take me to another world for its two and three quarter hour running time.

The 3D effects are also fantastically realised: from the lush vegetation of Pandora, to the hulking battleships – it all plays out with stunning depth. The first views of night in the Pandora forest are particularly visually stunning – plants glowing with fluorescent colours while similarly dayglo insects flit about the forest. James Cameron hasn’t simply used the 3D in a gimmicky way that offends so many 3D critics, he has used it to add to the creative possibilities. On the few occasions that objects move into the negative parallax in front of the screen it’s not done in a tacky coming-at-ya way, it’s subtle and in context. It’s the way 3D should naturally be integrated contextually and the way all future 3d will be judged.

The CGI characters similarly don’t have problems typically seen in photorealistic animations; their faces have a level of emotion and believability that I’ve never previously seen in CGI characters. I did find their physical movement at times a little unbelievable – but in the scale of things that seems mean spirited to pick up on such minor issue.

There has been much written about the plot elsewhere so I’m not going to regurgitate it – suffice to say there were tears in my eyes on more than one occassion, so although this is a spectacular sci-fi epic, it’s one with a heart and soul that really engaged the viewer.

It’s been a long time coming so suit up and get to your local 3D Cinema for the intergalactic trip of a lifeltime. Avatar is fantastic!

The YouTube Stereoscopic 3D Version (YT3D) of the Avatar trailer can be accessed via our YouTube 3D Channel.

Download your free Star Wars 3D Empire Poster Desktop

MarketSaw, the 3D Movie Blog, have an exclusive post on a strong rumor that George Lucas is preparing to launch another STAR WARS trilogy, this time in stereoscopic 3D.

The pending 2D to 3D conversions of the six existing STAR WARS films is still planned to go ahead as  theatres with 3D screens numbers approaching 3000 in the US (5000 is the number Lucas wants). No word yet though on when this work will be complete.