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WRT to 3D, a lot of industry mavens are now admitting that we may have witnessed yet another peak in the 3D game.

That makes it oh, say the THIRD time 3D has come to the fore, and then receded as the novelty item. This time it won't be a novelty.

A friend of mine in Santa Monica has been making an excellent living doing 2D to 3D conversions on a long list of very very big name features for the last four or five years.

At the peak his company was employing over 130 people just for 2D/3D conversions alone.

Last month he showed me a picture of the now empty office that used to have a cubicle farm in it.

It's not a disaster, he managed to place 90 percent of his digital artists and he made a small fortune. Now it's time to downsize and he's going back to 3D graphics and color work, which he also loves.

He said all along that he would ride the wave while it lasted. He also said he feels bad for all the kids who have been investing huge money in training that will not get leveraged at the level they expect.

I still say 3D has a wonderful place in science fiction, sports, nature and horror films.

But that's about it, and not every film in that genre will lend itself well and some that do will simply not be worth doing in 3D because the expected revenue won't be there.

We've seen the peak and now it's time to see the plateau.
It's not all bad, the present plateau HAS in fact elevated 3D to a somewhat higher spot than it has ever had in times past.