Re: Had to share...

I recently posted this tale to a similar thread on the AVID-L2, but also seems appropriate here-

In the early days of Quantel, ADO etc. a director/producer on an auto spot got sold on the idea of shooting a car green screen, and then using the newfangled technology to make "3-D moves" of the car on a star field background. I pulled a decent key, and magically made the car (a full side shot), move across the screen. He then asked me to turn the car, a y-axis rotation, as if the car was on a turntable. When I did so, he went ballistic when it disappeared on edge, and he couldn't see the front grille and headlights as it flipped around. It took some bit of explaining as to that we were rotating a two-dimensional picture of a car, in 3-D space with our Magic Box, not creating a 3-D image out of his single side shot, as he had assumed or been led to believe was supposed to happen. He had shot some front. rear and 3/4s but as statics, so they were not going to give him the look, either.
Soon after, the post staff had a meeting with the sales staff to explain the difference between 3-D graphics and movement in 3D space.
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Chuck Reti
Detroit MI