Producing Quality 3-D Films in the Digital Intermediate Process: Filmmaking

Steve Schklair , founder and CEO of 3ality Digital Systems, has been working at the front edge of new technologies for most of his career. He has left a mark in movies, special effects, and in interactive media. Schklair is currently focused on the development and production of new digital 3-D motion picture technologies and the real-time broadcast of 3-D programming. He is highly esteemed by an international client list as one of the world's leading experts in digital and live action 3-D and is one of the primary catalysts behind the recent resurgence of 3-D in Hollywood films. Schklair served as 3-D and Digital Image Producer on 3ality Digital's U23D movie. In addition to supervising the production, Schklair also oversaw the post-production and completion at the 3ality Digital studio in Burbank. Prior to 3ality, Schklair was a senior executive at Digital Domain, the special effects studio responsible for films such as Apollo 13, The Fifth Element, Titanic , and Terminator 2:3D , creative director for R/Greenberg Associates, and he was executive producer for computer graphics and interactive media pioneer Robert Abel. Schklair has a number of new patents pending and is a frequent speaker on 3-D and new entertainment technologies at leading international digital and entertainment technology events. He is a member of the advanced Technology Committee at the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and is an alumnus of the Master's program at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema.