The birth of Avatar (1)

In 2007, the virtual makers have tested the positions of actors’ body in captured system. In April, Cameron started to shoot Avatar in Playa Vista studio. In general, the virtual arts sector will design the shooting circumstance according to the idea of film. Then the assistant director Josh McLaglen will check the scene setting in advance to make sure all the setting are available. Cameron mentioned that the previous times he came here they spend half of a day to revise the scene setting. Till the end of shooting, my requirement is solving some basic problem, and basically makes sure the setting is appropriate to low requirement. This is the first step.

After the virtual arts sector collect all of the scene setting, stage properties and role material, the motion capture workers should test to ensure all the virtual shots are not excess the real time broadcast. Nolan Mutha explained that the more the shots are, the less possible could broadcate in real time. So the test is to makesure the they could catch the realtime scene.

Then, send all the virtual information to stage worker. They create the hill, forests, river and other model of environment. Cameron thought that, if they need to create some virtual objects in post-production they should create a real scene, that could not only support the actors acting, but also import it into virtual environment rapidly.