The talented VFX team behind Avatar: The Way of Water reveals the only two shots in James Cameron’s hit sequel that feature no CGI elements.
Key figures in Avatar: The Way of Water's expansive visual effects team reveal the only two shots in the movie that are entirely live-action with no CGI. After James Cameron's original Avatar dazzled audiences with its groundbreaking visual effects back in 2009, the director's long-awaited sequel has done much the same.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY In a recent interview with Metro at the 2023 Baftas, at which they won the award for Special Visual Effects, Avatar: The Way of Water VFX artists and supervisors Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, and Eric Saindon reveal that the film only has two shots with no CGI. While the movie features plenty of shots with live-action elements, the vast majority of these shots are enhanced or complemented with VFX in post-production.
“There’s one of Spider’s [Jack Champion] eyeball and there’s one of the bottom of the ocean and just some ripples in the bottom of the water. There’s lots of live action, lots of characters with CG but every other scene, VFX shots were touched.”How Future Avatar Movies Can Continue To Push VFX Forward Some of the biggest challenges heading into Avatar: The Way of Water were limitations in terms of creating such rich aquatic environments using CGI.
In addition to just continuing to make improvements to performance capture in terms of the subtleties of actors' performances coming across in their CGI characters, the franchise can use Pandora to continue to dazzle in terms of its visual effects. Water was the biggest nut to crack for Avatar: The Way of Water to work, but Avatar 3 and its inclusion of a new volcano-based, fire-worshiping clan of Na'vi called the Ash People could represent a new challenge.
After the fire and volcanoes of the third film, Avatar 4 and 5 can continue to expand the world of the story, bringing to life snowy environments, deciduous forests, or mountain ranges. Like the rainforest of the first film and the ocean environments of the second, each of these new biomes would be a new challenge for the team to overcome, thus pushing the entire visual effects industry forward.
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