NZ film gurus headline a 3D Creative Summit

When the world’s first 3D Creative Summit wanted some film production gurus to speak, it went to New Zealand to get them. Amongst the Summits distinguished guests were Phil Oatley and Meetal Gokul from New Zealand’s Park Road Productions. Park Road has been central to the making of such blockbusters as Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit and King Kong, as well as Stephen Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin. Phil Oatley is Head of Technology at Park Road, ‘overseeing all aspects of technology within its Sound and Picture departments’ and for his ‘tailoring [of] unique, efficient solutions for every project Park Road touches,’ according to the Summit programme. Meetal Gokul is Park Road’s Lead Stereoscopic Artist. In addition to The Hobbit and Tintin, his stereophonic credits include Andrew Adamson’s Cirque du Soleil and Natural History New Zealand’s 3D series China Revealed. Oatley and Gokul were in good company. Other speakers included Sir David Attenborough and Robert Neumann, Stereoscopic Department Head at Disney Animation Studios. The Summit was arranged by Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication and the International 3D Society. It was held in London and featured exclusive screenings and Q&As with experts and industry professionals from the world of 3D. There was also a ‘3D Producers Lab’, with selected producers given access to some of the 3D industry’s leading talents, and a research programme bringing together academia and industry to examine stereoscopic film and television.