The Zero Parallax View
By MAUREEN DOWD
NYT
How much does Phil McNally love 3-D?
So much that he legally listed his name on his British driver’s license, and later on his Social Security card and American license, as “Phil Captain III D McNally.”
“Apparently you can’t have numbers in your name in the U.K., so I had to do Roman numerals,” the DreamWorks global stereoscopic supervisor told me. “My dad wasn’t impressed. Parents are very possessive of the names they give you.”
Captain 3-D, a 42-year-old Northern Ireland native, is also known as the resident “hurl-o-meter” at DreamWorks, the guy who goes through every frame to adjust the amount of depth, dial the intensity up or down, and fix the right-eye/left-eye camera settings so that moviegoers can enjoy dragons skydiving past them without having to turn their popcorn bags into motion-sickness bags.
(More here.)
NYT
How much does Phil McNally love 3-D?
So much that he legally listed his name on his British driver’s license, and later on his Social Security card and American license, as “Phil Captain III D McNally.”
“Apparently you can’t have numbers in your name in the U.K., so I had to do Roman numerals,” the DreamWorks global stereoscopic supervisor told me. “My dad wasn’t impressed. Parents are very possessive of the names they give you.”
Captain 3-D, a 42-year-old Northern Ireland native, is also known as the resident “hurl-o-meter” at DreamWorks, the guy who goes through every frame to adjust the amount of depth, dial the intensity up or down, and fix the right-eye/left-eye camera settings so that moviegoers can enjoy dragons skydiving past them without having to turn their popcorn bags into motion-sickness bags.
(More here.)
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