The Last Airbender Also Going 3D

According to Variety, Paramount has been working for over a year testing the 3D conversion process with Stereo D, who also worked on Avatar, and three months again, they showed Shyamalan some converted footage and he agreed to convert the full movie to 3D.

Also comingsoon recently talked to the movie's Visual FX Supervisor Pablo Hellman he had the following to say about Airbender being converted to 3D:

"You can probably spend as much time as you have," he told us. "How good it looks is proportionate to how much time that you spend either if you decide to shoot it in 3D or you decide to do it in post. I think the one thing that you have to remember is to design things (for 3D). If you have not designed it in 3D, you have to have a specific esthetic to it, and having seen 'Clash of the Titans,' this movie is different in the sense that Night's takes are really, really long. The average shot is about 500 frames, which is really long, and the camera movement, even in action scenes, there's a lot of stuff we shot at 96 frames a second just so we can speed it up or slow it down. The camera moves really slowly around the characters. That kind of design lends itself well to 3D dimensionalizing more than an action sequence that's all cuts; you just can't focus on things. A lot of it has to do with design and what you do with it, too. It's what we do with the tool that makes it either interesting or jarring and not telling the story."

It's to the point that reporting a movie will be in 3D isn't even news worth covering anymore, it's like telling you it will be in color and also have sound. The "fad" seems to be here to stay, love it or hate it. 3D isn't going anywhere any time soon.