Sandde
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SANDDE is a software and hardware system, developed primarily by IMAX
Corporation, designed to create hand-drawn, stereoscopic 3D animation content. SANDDE is an acronym for "Stereoscopic ANimation Drawing DEvice" and is a play on the Japanese term for "3D", which is pronounced "San-D".
The concept of Sandde is to enable artists to draw and animate in three dimensional space. It is intended to be intuitively usable, like a pencil. As an art form, Sandde incorporates aspects of drawing, painting, sculpture and puppetry. Unlike most other 3D computer graphic animation tools, Sandde does not require the construction of mathematically defined models. The main input device is a "Wand" which allows the user to create drawings in the air.
Animators sit in virtual stereoscopic theaters and, using a specialized "wand", draw in space to create individual frames and then animate their creations using the interactive capabilities of the wand to create shots, sequences, and complete movies.
Sandde was originally developed by IMAX in the mid-1990s, and was used to create one IMAX short (Paint Misbehavin' [1997]) and portions of two other IMAX feature films: Mark Twain 3D (1999) and Cyberworld (2000). Thereafter, IMAX stopped active development of the system but provided licenses for use and future development to the National Film Board of Canada
for artistic experimentation and to Janro Imaging Laboratory to explore commercial use of the application. The former has used Sandde in numerous stereoscopic productions including "Falling in Love Again
", Moonman, June, and "The Wobble Incident", while the latter has licensed Sandde for "Ultimate Wave 3D" and "Legends of Flight", both produced by the Stephen Low Company.
IMAX
IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
Corporation, designed to create hand-drawn, stereoscopic 3D animation content. SANDDE is an acronym for "Stereoscopic ANimation Drawing DEvice" and is a play on the Japanese term for "3D", which is pronounced "San-D".
The concept of Sandde is to enable artists to draw and animate in three dimensional space. It is intended to be intuitively usable, like a pencil. As an art form, Sandde incorporates aspects of drawing, painting, sculpture and puppetry. Unlike most other 3D computer graphic animation tools, Sandde does not require the construction of mathematically defined models. The main input device is a "Wand" which allows the user to create drawings in the air.
Animators sit in virtual stereoscopic theaters and, using a specialized "wand", draw in space to create individual frames and then animate their creations using the interactive capabilities of the wand to create shots, sequences, and complete movies.
Sandde was originally developed by IMAX in the mid-1990s, and was used to create one IMAX short (Paint Misbehavin' [1997]) and portions of two other IMAX feature films: Mark Twain 3D (1999) and Cyberworld (2000). Thereafter, IMAX stopped active development of the system but provided licenses for use and future development to the National Film Board of Canada
National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's twelve-time Academy Award-winning public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions...
for artistic experimentation and to Janro Imaging Laboratory to explore commercial use of the application. The former has used Sandde in numerous stereoscopic productions including "Falling in Love Again
Falling in Love Again (2003 film)
Falling in Love Again is an animated stereoscopic 3D Film, set to the song Falling in Love Again as sung by Marlene Dietrich. It was created by Munro Ferguson at the National Film Board of Canada using IMAX's Sandde stereoscopic drawing system, and it won a Canadian Genie Award for Best Animated...
", Moonman, June, and "The Wobble Incident", while the latter has licensed Sandde for "Ultimate Wave 3D" and "Legends of Flight", both produced by the Stephen Low Company.