No, it can’t be… where is this information?
http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/11483/tcid/1
This is motion-capture stuff for what’s going to be a 3-D (mostly) animated film?
well i know its going to be in 3-D but im not sure what you mean by animated. Special effects heavy you mean?
I don’t even really like James Cameron’s films outside of Terminator and Aliens: and he’s DOS in my book (dead on sighting) forever for making the evil seething pustulant dayglow goo that is Titanic.
But this.
This might actually be amazing.
If he does what I think he might be doing, then he won’t need CGI effects (unless in and of itself it’s a specific aesthetic).
“well i know its going to be in 3-D but im not sure what you mean by animated. Special effects heavy you mean?”
The impetus for Cameron finally going ahead with this film was a new “performance capture” technology that he had a hand in developing, so the actors, as I understand it, are somehow being instantly converted to CG characters in a CG environ that with be viewable real-time while they’re still shooting. Cameron in an interview:
“We did a test of the performance-capture techniques we wanted and needed to use to make this film — a live action, real-time, director-centric performance-capture process. In other words, as the actors perform, I’m able to see in the monitor not only what they might look like as their CG character, but in the CG environment we’ve created, and direct them accordingly.
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Actor with limited knowledge of motion capture- “We were filming with 197 cameras, simultaneously!”
Anyone who’s seen any dvd extra on the process of motion capture – “Yes, 197 sensors that capture points of light and input them into a computer, creating a rough digital model of your performance that’s later touched-up by animators.”
That’s what it sounds like to me, at least.
ahh…
yes, that’s more likely. I thought he was creating a sensor fusion stereoscopic masterpiece (no stylized animation effects)
on the lines of the bats-in-flight work they’ve been doing at Brown Uni lately.
so it’s all for an animation.
Not as exciting as I originally thought.
I’m sure it will be great work however.
he’s not doing Avatar, it’s M. Night Shymalan
Cameron is doing this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/
M. Night Shymalan is doing this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/
A relative story in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/movies/25avatar.html?_r=1&ref=movies
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James Cameron is filming his actors with 197 cameras, simultaneously, in real time what the heck?? Ive never even heard of anything like that. I think this is the film people have been waiting for to turn the corner in cinema.