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Well, I’ve been tinkering around in 3D for awhile now, and the idea of doing a red-cyan anaglyph seemed like fun, surprisingly it was very easy, and very effective.

Doctor Who 2005 Episode 1 - Rose The Review The first episode of Doctor Who in a good long time. It was good, but it should have been better than good, it should have been excellent. And let me be clear it is not the effects or the acting, or the sets that I had a big problem with. The big problem is actually the plot. Having to grab hold of and keep hold of a new audience while at the same time not demeaning the old audience is a huge challenge which they did a half-arsed job of. Being heavy handed on some points, and completely leaving other things unexplained. [Warning the rest of this review has big spoilers.]

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Just the other day I hooked my 10 year old Newton up to my mac and copied all the old files that were on it off. I’ve not used this thing for almost 8 or so years, and I’ve been sifting through some of the old stories I wrote on it. Most of them are just fragments, story-ets if you like. This is one was written on 29th April 1995. A man stood on the edge of an invisible abyss. The time wind roared silently up the chasm and rushed past him. Bellowing his jacket and ruffling his hair without disturbing his hat. He turned a t’pence coin in his left hand, pondering the importance that it bared. Examining the coin by touch, becoming familiar with its every detail. Identifying the monarch by touch as Queen Elizabeth the third. A strange paradox that couldn’t exist. Origins that the coin held secret. Destinies that only he and the coin knew. He tossed the coin over the edge, for tossing was the proper thing to do with coins from Earth. He watched it slowly, as it instantly disappeared into the chasm. With a precision equal only to chaos, he waited. He gave it a head start. He liked it here, in the nothingness that underlines everything. This was the only place he could come and no body else could watch him. He turned and walked over to the tall blue box. Slowly he unlocked the door and went inside. The Police Box hurled itself over the edge of the abyss and into the vortex, in pursuit of the coin. The TARDIS was unlikely to catch it, but that was not its purpose. The coin hurtled faster and faster through the nothingness until it reached a maximum velocity. The vortex consumed the coin, the energy would be redistributed. The Doctor began to wonder just what future the coin had seen as they stood on the edge of the vortex, if it had seen the same destinies he had, if it had known what was going to happen next, and never gave the coin another thought.

Two very similar TARDIS demats here. This first one is a 3D fade out, look closely and you can see the back windows of the Police Box as it fades away. (Quicktime, MPEG 4, 2.4 MB) This one is more for reference, this is the classic dissolve trick, even if in the show it meant locking the camera in position for the shot. (Quicktime, MPEG 4, 2.4 MB)