Stereoscopic image production method and system

A method for producing stereoscopic images comprising:

• receiving digital information representing a plurality of frames and objects within the frames, the frames intended to be presented to viewers as a sequence of frames;
• selecting a sequence of frames having at least a portion of a particular object in common;
• selecting a frame from the sequence of frames;
• in a layer corresponding to the frame, identifying selected objects within the layer;
• indicating the relative depth of the objects in the layer corresponding to the frame by assigning to each identified object a shade of gray corresponding to the object's depth;
• creating a composite image for each frame by adding the selected frame on top of the layer corresponding to the frame;
• adjusting the opacity of the top layer to a value in a range of about ten to twenty percent;
• adding detail with a soft-light transform;
• blurring the composite image;
• creating a left eye image by displacing the entire composite image to the left as indicated by the gray scale layer;
• creating a right eye image corresponding to the left eye image by displacing the entire composite image to the right as indicated by the gray scale layer;
• and,
• rendering out the left and right eye images to create left and right eye frames capable of being viewed as a stereoscopic presentation of the selected sequence of frames.