Initial D Third Stage Making Of The Movie

Initial D Third Stage Making Of The Movie (頭文字D Third Stage Making Of The Movie Inisharu D Third Stage Making Of The Movie) is a behind-the-scenes "making of" special for the movie Initial D Third Stage, It was released on the Initial D The Movie Special Box on DVD and VHS on August 29th, 2001.

Contents
The special is split into 4 chapters, each chapter talking about the development and production of Initial D Third Stage.

Chapter 1
Chapter 1, titled "The World of D ~Gorgeous voice cast~", focuses on the voice cast of the movie and the importance of how they add character to the characters that they voice. The chapter has a section where the voice cast introduces themselves and who they voice, along with their thoughts on the movie. Additionally, it shows behind-the-scenes footage of the voice actors recording the dialogue for their characters, which was done in October 2000.

Chapter 2
Chapter 2, titled "The World of D ~3DCG~", discusses the use of CGI and its evolution since its use in the First Stage, as well as the difficulty of compositing the 2D animation and 3DCG models. The chapter includes an interview with Executive Producer Ren Usami, in which he talks about how they were searching in the dark and gradually evolved the compositions of the first, second, and third stages, and the quality to finally come up with a project that would be efficient enough to stand up on the big screen of a movie. The process of compositing the 2D animation and 3DCG is also demonstrated with a scene using both as an example.

Place objects according to the storyboard -> Draw the background in 2D based on the perspective -> Create the 3D objects based on perspective -> Add cell-style edges -> Draw the engine in 2D -> Draw the 2D characters based on the perspective. The result is a more realistic and deeper image. In addition, the use of digital editing called Inferno was used to expand the range of expression along with the movement of the visual imagery. The use of such digital editing could be seen in the battle between Takumi Fujiwara and Miki in which the battle takes place in the snow

Release
The Making Of The Movie was released on the Initial D The Movie Special Box on DVD and VHS on August 29th, 2001.