With two 3D DVDs already in the marketplace, and another (Cash Markman's Dark Dimension) debuting at the AEE on Sunday (Jan. 11), 3D Fantasy Films (3DFF) is poised to take the adult video world by storm.
"We are talking to major players in the field, and offering, on a co-op basis, to help them shoot a 3D scene that can be used as a bonus demo on the back end of a full-length DVD," said 3DFF co-owner Allan Silliphant. "There would be 18 to 20 minutes of new 3D material that the customer is basically getting for free, and they would charge an extra, say, $2 to cover the cost of the glasses that would be packaged with the DVD. So we're willing and anxious to do this with all the major players in the marketplace."
Silliphant, the director of one of the most popular adult 3D films in history, The Stewardesses, is an innovator in the field, with his most recent accomplishment being "seriously improved anaglyph glasses"; the ones with the red-green lenses that companies have given out so customers can view everything from cereal boxes to comicbooks – to, recently, Hollywood movies – in 3D.
"In fact," noted Silliphant, " you'll be able to use our glasses to replace the cheap cardboard ones Disney will be supplying with their Spy Kids 3D DVD. You can just throw their glasses away, because ours will make the movie look better."
3DFF is even pitching their own mainstream projects, which may lead to the public being able to view 3D movies that haven't been available for half a century.
"We've had multiple meetings with a major Hollywood studio that owns an extensive collection of classic 3D films from the '50s," Silliphant revealed, "and they were very happy with the demo 3D test that we developed for them."
But 3DFF's major advances have been on the technological end.
"We're also phasing in the high-definition production, meaning we're shooting with two small, high-definition cameras which have been miniaturized to get them closer together for a better 3D effect," Silliphant described. "The result of that is that you get two good 2D high-definition wide-screen pictures, so for archival purposes, you'll have current-looking material five years from now when HD is a big, big thing. I suspect however that HD will begin to impact the adult industry within two years in a big way, so this way, you can produce a wide-screen 2DHD picture and/or 3D, and an interesting byproduct is that you get 1800 progressive-scan high resolution digital pictures per minute, so it would allow people to produce still content and serialized slideshow content for the internet as a painless byproduct."
There's already been plenty of mainstream media interest in 3DFF's technology, which can easily be broadcast over existing channels for a cleaner-looking image than is available even on DVD, and Silliphant noted that HBO Latin America even did a live broadcast from his booth at the show.
"We're the next thing in adult video viewing," Silliphant predicted. "We think the public is ready to be put right in the action, and we're ready to supply it."
