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The recent 3D week on Channel 4 was a bit rubbish, but both it and a special 3D issue of The Sky At Night magazine I saw the other day have got me thinking.

How about a 3D special of 2000ad? Yes, it'd be pointless and gimmicky, but now I've thought of the idea I really, really want a copy.

It can work.
I got the Clive Barker one: http://uk.comics.ign.com/objects/038/038244.html
It's not anywhere near one of Clive's better stories, but the 3d element is cracking.

I slightly moisten the comic with steam from a kettle and then jam my fist under the page I'm reading and wiggle it around under the drawings - instant 3D motion comic.

Quote from: Emperor on 28 November, 2009, 02:25:57 PM
I slightly moisten the comic and then jam my fist under and wiggle it around

:o

The terrible influence of Roger Godpleton is spreading.

Quote from: Kerrin on 28 November, 2009, 04:14:51 PM

Quote from: Emperor on 28 November, 2009, 02:25:57 PM
I slightly moisten the comic and then jam my fist under and wiggle it around

:o

The terrible influence of Roger Godpleton is spreading.

Except Roger gets his mother to do it for him.

I am up for anything that increases my enjoyment of the comic and anything that may get others to read it. A 3D issue immediately becomes a hundred percent more interesting than a non-3D one- in exactly the same way that if it came packaged with a plastic fisting arm, it would leap off the shelf.

So give me that 3D goodness Thargybaby!

SBT

Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 28 November, 2009, 04:44:04 PM

So give me that 3D goodness Thargybaby!

Fleetway experimented with it briefly in the 80s, trying it out in both Battle/Action Force and Eagle, of which the Cam Kennedy illustrated 'Scorpio' was the most successful, IMO, since Kennedy's perspective is usually faultless, and he appeared to understand the nature of what was being attempted and appeared to actively break the artwork down into planes, so that the 3D separations would really 'pop' ...

Cheers!

Jim

Quote from: M.I.K. on 28 November, 2009, 12:58:45 PMHow about a 3D special of 2000ad? Yes, it'd be pointless and gimmicky, but now I've thought of the idea I really, really want a copy.

Also it has to be done purely because of the name 2000 3D!!

They did it recently on Grant Morrison's Final Crisis: Superman Beyond and it seems to have gone over well (although I believe it was reproduced in ordinary form for the hardcover volume).

Anyone know how to do it? Anyone up for an experiment? One that doesn't involve moistness and my fist (or Roger's mum's)?

I've only ever messed around with it in 3D Software - there are plugins in After Effects to do it, not sure if there are any photoshop plugins to help translate the depth order to 3D depth.

I loved the whole 3D section of the Black Dossier, which I think worked well.

So which strips would work especially well in 3D?

Dredd, obviously.
Stront - could do some nice effects with the electronux, time bombs etc.
ABC Warriors - Langley could look quite epic in 3D
Shakara - I can't imagine what Henry Flint in 3D would be like...

Would we get variant covers for this special issue with themed 3D glasses as well just so I can buy them all. Dredd glasses or Alpha glasses!!!

Quote from: Steve ^McWild^ Green on 28 November, 2009, 07:47:27 PMShakara - I can't imagine what Henry Flint in 3D would be like...

Truly frightening - their be savaged jagged bits trying to poke your eyes out, then a leering BOBFOTCM* followed by vertiginous plunges and mesmerising wiggly detail. So no to Shakara on those grounds.

What about Nikolai Dante? Pointy nanotech swords, well-stuffed trousers and... too much again.

Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I like the sound of that.

It would have to be a issue with Slaine in it of cousre.

It would be interesting to see Clint Lanely's work in 3D. I guess it would have to be finished by a 3D expert.

With a pair of cardboard and cellophane 3D glass's as well.

I was also thinking how about a pop-up issue. I think that might be easier done.

Not for the first time, I'm sad that 3D doesn't work with my eye problems.  Bastarding EYES!

Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 28 November, 2009, 08:31:31 PM
I was also thinking how about a pop-up issue.

With all the breasts on show lately I bet Roger would be up for that ;)

Quote from: Mike Gloady on 28 November, 2009, 08:32:44 PM
Not for the first time, I'm sad that 3D doesn't work with my eye problems.  Bastarding EYES!

I am not sure it works for myself either like the way i can never ever see what is in those Magic Eye things.I am short sighted in one eye if that has anything to do with it.

I think problems with one eye that aren't quite mirrored by the other might be a reason.  Magic Eye doesn't work for me either.  My problem is that one eye's long-sighted, the other short-sighted and while both are open at once, I tend to use whichever is most suited for whatever I'm looking at and don't see through the other.  Hence no 3D.  Wish it worked, it'd be cool to have a prog in 3D.

You two get out of this city. Mutant Alert!

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 28 November, 2009, 04:55:41 PM

Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 28 November, 2009, 04:44:04 PM

So give me that 3D goodness Thargybaby!

Fleetway experimented with it briefly in the 80s, trying it out in both Battle/Action Force and Eagle, of which the Cam Kennedy illustrated 'Scorpio' was the most successful, IMO, since Kennedy's perspective is usually faultless, and he appeared to understand the nature of what was being attempted and appeared to actively break the artwork down into planes, so that the 3D separations would really 'pop' ...

Cheers!

Jim

Yep, I remember it well. But I also remember the palpable excitement it generated at the time. I vividly remember EIGHT copies of the first 3D Eagle being passed around my art class as Mr White tried to get us to think about how it was actually done.

Mr White, by the way, used to letter Commando comics to subsidise his teaching income.

SBT

Mr White sounds Kool and the GANG!

Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 28 November, 2009, 08:50:49 PM
You two get out of this city. Mutant Alert!

Well if you insist i will fuck off then .

Gooodbye !

It fucks with your depth perception, this eye thing.  Which means if I were to jokingly punch you in the face I might not pull it in time to save your face you anti-mutant bastard.

;p

If you had bought the second CD in the new Dredd line you will know something extra about the mutant issue [spoiler]I'm not telling you everything but it involves the Justic Department and cover ups[/spoiler] so you don't really have to leave.

I'm saving the new audios for the new year.  Making sure i can afford to give neices and nephews a decent Christmas, innit?

Sounds intriguing though.  They all look pretty good.  And if I get all four of the new ones at once, I'll be well happy and plough through them in short order. 

I remember the Battle Action Force 3D. Used to stare at those for hours. Not sure if they did strips did they? I certainly remember star scan type full page affairs though.

Could it work in a extra novel with "The Meg"? One dedicated to 3D, like.

Me and Paul were going to do a 3D issue of Solar Wind at one point, we even priced up getting the glasses from our Free Gift pimps. I've still got the 3D episode of Griefbringer here somewhere...

Yay! Another opportunity to dredge this one out!


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I'd go for a one off 3D special issue of 2000ad, though I don't think I'd like it as a regular feature.

I'd like a 3D Sex Prog, with Clint offering us a zillion pages of photoshop boobs. It would be awesome.

That blazing world part of Black Dossier was a brain-wreck. Fucking glasses didn't fit too. 

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 28 November, 2009, 04:55:41 PMFleetway experimented with it briefly in the 80s . . .

And LOOK-IN. They even had E.T. on the cover wearing the free 3D glasses.