James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever

camera-avatarJames Cameron’s “Avatar” opens in theaters December 18th, and media outlets worldwide are abuzz with interviews, stories, and the technology behind the film.  Over at Wired they have a great background piece about what happened to James Cameron from the debut of the original Star Wars to the present, including the maddening attention to detail we will get to witness in Avatar.

Cameron is trying to show me something with a laser pointer. He queues up a scene toward the end ofAvatar and freezes the frame on an image of a large crowd of Na’vi. He uses the pointer to draw attention to an ornate headdress composed of hundreds of tiny beads. The onscreen image is amazingly crisp, and the headdress appears utterly real. Each bead was designed by a digital artist, Cameron says, so it would look handmade. “Every leaf, every blade of grass in this world was created,” he says, and his laser pointer streaks across the screen, alighting on so many things I can’t follow its path.

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  1. Whatever
    November 24th, 2009 at 14:25 | #1

    Whatever. He is doing nothing new that hasn’t been in the industry for over a decade. He is a master of market spin, like Lucas.

    otherwise, trying to say he is pushing a “new” technology that is simply a collection of technologies that have been applied already…. hyperbole.

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  2. November 25th, 2009 at 13:06 | #2

    Avatar certainly has the hype of a Titanic. If you would like to learn more about the man behind the camera, the UK film website Flickering Myth is posting a three-part profile on James Cameron.

    http://flickeringmyth.blogspot.com/2009/11/resurfacing-james-cameron-profile-part.html

    Part Two will be posted on Dec. 2nd and Part Three on Dec. 9th.

    Enjoy.

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  3. November 29th, 2009 at 15:48 | #3

    Thank you in advance for your quick answer !. Very nice post.

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