[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

I don't know if he was or not, but it has happened many times before.

Miller wasn't forced to do 3D, he wanted it in 3D but logistical reasons prevented 3D cameras from being used:

Now did you shoot native 3D, or did you post-convert?

We post-converted. We built cameras. We built six cameras that were small enough to get inside the vehicle and could withstand the heat and dust. Then I chickened out because if we lost even one… we often had 15 cameras and if we lost one camera even one day, like they couldn’t cool a camera enough and I thought, "Oh, there’s one camera down." We’ve lost up to three units, you know. We can’t get a camera in that case, so we made the decision to go digital which liberated us. Johnny Seale is someone who was very happy to put cameras everywhere, multiple cameras. We ended up having cameras everywhere, and if we lost a camera, a crashed camera, we could go to the airport even in Namibia and buy another one for $1,500 to $2,000. That was big. Meantime, it took so long for these things to happen that the conversion is much, much better.

It seems to give you more control. I talked to del Toro about "Pacific Rim," and early on in his tests, he realized that if he did 3D for any of the scenes with the monsters and the robots, they looked like toys. So he would push it very shallow and then only in interior scenes with humans would he open it up.


Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/motion-capture...URGpSXdMFZK.99

Also, every vehicle... all of them (before destruction) were drivable.

Practical effects have gotten incredibly scarce in big-budget summer blockbusters, so it's pretty refreshing to learn that every ride in Mad Max: Fury Road's apocalyptic menagerie isn't CGI -- they're all functional and drivable.

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