I think this is the best Hollywood movie I have seen in 2009. Also been fortunate to watch both 2-D and 3-D ver. in 89 Cinemas,Durgapur and IMAX,Kolkata. It was a great visual treat for me in both the situations.
site 1: Our 3rd semester exam happily ended on 26th dec,09 and for the sake of celebrating, the plan was made to watch AVATAR the next day 'morning show' (since it costs less in morning as we also spend on '3 Idiots' on 26 dec,09. yes, just after the last exam paper). Lets see do I remembered the names
who was a part of this- me, Akshit, Rahul, Bikramjeet and................ an................... and.......
.................... yes! Rupayon. Sorry, he was not regular with us (usually).
site 2: 3rd January; friend's birthday; planned a dinner party in The Chef Choice,Kolkata with the 3-D ver. AVATAR in IMAX. Now here we include Sohrab (birthday boy), Abhisekh, Joy, Biswaroop and me.
Okay now coming to the Topic i.e development of Avatar. It started in 1994 by Cameron, who wrote an
80-page script for the film. Filming was supposed to take place after
the completion of Titanic, and the film would have been released in
1999, but according to Cameron, “technology needed to catch up” with
his vision of the film. In early 2006, Cameron developed the script,
the language, and the culture of Pandora. He has stated that if Avatar
is successful, two sequels to the film are planned. (source BBC news)
In terms of cutting edge technologies used, Avatar marks the
coming of age of both CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery) and 3-D cinema
with its art house special effects and its shock and awe treatment.
Performance capture technology, which creates computerized images from
real human action, was used in this movie so that every action is more
real and palpable. The cast had motion-capture suits that carried
sensors, which enabled the computers to store the movements of the body
showing performance capture.
According to a report, the makers of the movie had designed an
exclusive hi-def 3D camera ensemble which weighs around 50 pounds and
used a mix of two Sony HDC-F950 HD cameras at a distance of 2.5 inches
from face in order to capture the stereoscopic separation of human
eyes. It means that the system has two camera lenses that converge on a
focal point with the help of a computer and helps in smooth camera
moves and action sequences.
Also the information from the cameras produced a digital framework,
or rig, of an actor’s face. “The rig was then given a set of rules that
applied the muscle movements of each actor’s face to that of the
Avatar. To make a computer-generated character express the same emotion
as a human actor, the rig had to translate every arch of a human
eyebrow directly to the digital character’s face.”
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