The Professor of 3-D

"SUPERCONDUCTIVITY" - Standish Lawder (1936 – 2014)

A 3-D cross-eyed pair, scanned from a pair of 35mm super slides. Standish gave me this slide pair in a stereo viewer as a gift after taking his 3-D Stereoscopic Art class at UCSD. He also taught 16mm Film Animation and Experimental Film, and built an optical printer and rotoscope stand to compliment the 16mm ACME animation stand. It was a fun time to work with analog media, loading film magazines, filming and hand splicing film.

How to view the this cross-eyed stereo pair: Relax your eyes on the image and gently cross your eyes until a third image merges in the center of the two.

I took Stan's classes over a dozen times as he taught us more than the moving image and technique, we studied perception and immersive media including multiple techniques for stereoscopic viewing. After UCSD I went on to intern at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the UCSD campus as a 3D animator and 3-D stereoscopic research artist in scientific visualization. 3-D stereoscopic imaging is still one of my favorite hobbies. Check out this animated sculpture rendered in stereo https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b7tSU17J3Dk

Flyer for VA 131 Art show

Fun fact! Standish arranged for Chuck Jones to spend the day with a select group of us animators to review our animated films for feedback which felt surreal when you have loved Chuck Jones cartoons your whole life. We later went out to a Mexican restaurant with Chuck Jones and his wife. I sat right next to him as he drank Presidentials (margaritas on the rocks) and he shared a story about splicing quick x-rated bugs bunny frames into the dailies to mess with the producers. I loved hearing about how his dog Max inspired the character in the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. It was an amazing day.