James Cameron's Avatar - A Treat for the Holidays
August 25th 2009 02:49
This alien is going to be me?
Human no more.
One of the most-anticipated films for 2009, the science-fiction semi-animated action adventure, Avatar, is really a notch up in visual effects and theater viewing with the use of new IMAX camera technology developed by director James Cameron's group. While the old IMAX camera has fixed double lenses, the new one used in the making of Avatar has two lenses that can literally focus on the subject much like our eyes do, enhancing and enabling the 3D effect to be more natural and effective.
Avatar is Cameron's first feature film since Titanic, and everyone knows that with the gap between the movies, Avatar is intended to be one that will create another stir in the movie world, not only with the new movie effects technology behind it, but also in how the movie delivers as an innovative mix of live action and animation that pushes the envelope of realistic computer-generated characters to the point where they are nearly indistinguishable from actual actors and actresses.
While it's obvious from the trailer that computer animation still needs to be tweaked to duplicate real human movements and how they appear on film, it's really come to the point that we can say, "Hey, it's almost there!" Computer graphics technology has come a long way from Terminator 2, and through the years, it has continued to amaze us even as the people behind it have revealed their secrets.
If you look at how older CG-3D movies like Beowulf had rendered convincingly-textured characters, we could see how much progress had been made, never mind if we could still tell by how the characters moved that they weren't real. Avatar uses imagery of an alien world and its natives and has the excuse of asserting they're not meant to look like things on Earth. Acceptable, but that explanation may not quite convince movie fans. But that doesn't mean this movie is a definitive Holiday (a Christmas release always seems to make such movies a hit) blockbuster and that viewers will still find the experience very, very cool!
Avatar is about getting a second chance and finding one's destiny in unlikely places. It stars Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang, Matt Gerald, and Sam Worthington who also starred in Terminator: Salvation as a cyborg.
Watch the trailer of Avatar here.
Avatar is Cameron's first feature film since Titanic, and everyone knows that with the gap between the movies, Avatar is intended to be one that will create another stir in the movie world, not only with the new movie effects technology behind it, but also in how the movie delivers as an innovative mix of live action and animation that pushes the envelope of realistic computer-generated characters to the point where they are nearly indistinguishable from actual actors and actresses.
While it's obvious from the trailer that computer animation still needs to be tweaked to duplicate real human movements and how they appear on film, it's really come to the point that we can say, "Hey, it's almost there!" Computer graphics technology has come a long way from Terminator 2, and through the years, it has continued to amaze us even as the people behind it have revealed their secrets.
If you look at how older CG-3D movies like Beowulf had rendered convincingly-textured characters, we could see how much progress had been made, never mind if we could still tell by how the characters moved that they weren't real. Avatar uses imagery of an alien world and its natives and has the excuse of asserting they're not meant to look like things on Earth. Acceptable, but that explanation may not quite convince movie fans. But that doesn't mean this movie is a definitive Holiday (a Christmas release always seems to make such movies a hit) blockbuster and that viewers will still find the experience very, very cool!
Avatar is about getting a second chance and finding one's destiny in unlikely places. It stars Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang, Matt Gerald, and Sam Worthington who also starred in Terminator: Salvation as a cyborg.
Watch the trailer of Avatar here.
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