Ray Zone

Ray Zone is an American film historian, author, artist, and pioneer in methods of converting flat images (in particular, comic books) into stereoscopic images.

Starlog has called him the "King of 3-D Comics", and Artsy Planet has called him the "3D King of Hollywood".

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Professional history

Ray Zone began working in comic books in 1983 and his early collaborations with Jack Harris and Steve Ditko drew the attention of Archie Goodwin, who recruited him to work with John Byrne on the 1990 Batman 3-D, a full-length 3D graphic novella.[1] Since then, he has produced 3D adaptations of art for over 150 comic books, including stories by Alan Moore and Grant Morrison which were specifically written to accommodate stereoscopy. Zone is the author of "3D Filmmakers, Conversations with Creators of Stereoscopic Motion Pictures" (Scarecrow Press: 2005) and "Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838 - 1952" (University Press of Kentucky: 2007). In 2008 Zone worked as 3D Supervisor on the feature film "Dark Country 3D" (Sony Pictures) with director/star Thomas Jane and in 2010 as 3D Producer on "Brijes 3D," (Ithrax/SDA), the first animated 3D feature film made in Mexico.

Biography

Ray Zone moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980's and began working in the world of 3D converting flat art to 3D images. He has converted more than 150 "flat art" comic books to 3D for clients such as Disney, Warner Bros and the Simpsons. Ray Zone is now an author, 3D film producer, speaker and award-winning 3-D artist. An internationally recognized expert in all things 3-D, Zone has a special interest in stereoscopic cinema and Large Format 3-D (15/70) filmmaking. Since 1983, he has created stereo conversions and stereoscopic images for a wide variety of clients in publishing, education, advertising, television and motion pictures. In 2006 Zone was acknowledged by the Grammy Award as "3D Artist" on the platinum selling Tool 3D CD "10,000 Days" which garnered the Grammy in the category of "Best Recording Package." Ray Zone is the recipient of numerous awards for his 3D work, among them a 1987 "Inkpot Award" from San Diego Comic Con for "Outstanding Achievement in Comic Arts." Zone's website is viewable in anaglyphic 3-D at: www.ray3dzone.com

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Comics work includes:

References

  1. ^ Manning, Matthew K.; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1990s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. "The Caped Crusader leaped off the pages in all his red-and-blue glory in this over-sized eighty-page special crafted by 3-D expert Ray Zone...[for] an all-new tale written and illustrated by John Byrne." 

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