Avatar - James Cameron

[clippedgull]

Anyone else going to see this in IMAX 3D?, just booked my tickets.I can't wait!

Opens December 16th

YouTube - Avatar: The Movie (New Extended HD Trailer)

 

[Martinf]

Where are you going to see it clipped? Up to the Smoke?

 

[clippedgull]

Where are you going to see it clipped? Up to the Smoke?

Yeah. BFi IMAX Waterloo .

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

How much are the tickets?

 

[clippedgull]

How much are the tickets?

£13.50 and £15 plus £1.50 booking fee £15 are for the 'roomier' seats.

Bit pricey, but hey it's a one off!

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Thats a hell of a lot for the cinema! London seem to charge whatever they want. I paid 10.60 to go last sunday

 

[clippedgull]

Thats a hell of a lot for the cinema! London seem to charge whatever they want. I paid 10.60 to go last sunday

Yeah I did gulp a bit, but I love IMAX movies and it's just under 3 hours in length so you get your moneys worth.


I see IMAX are running a SAW night tonight all six movies back to back overnight!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Does it require the wearing of special glasses? Isn't it supposed to be the future of 3D movies or something?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

TI seems a mix of real acction and cartoon type CGI. It cost $ 230 000 000 to make. Cameron is a fine director so it should be good but the look of it is somewhat cartooney.

 

[clippedgull]

Does it require the wearing of special glasses? Isn't it supposed to be the future of 3D movies or something?

Yes, special glasses are required. But they are advanced 3D glasses not the red and green cellophane of old!

Here is a little background from Wiki

Filming and effects
It's this form of pure creation where if you want to move a tree or a mountain or the sky or change the time of day, you have complete control over the elements.
—James Cameron on virtual filmmaking[35]

In December 2006, Cameron explained that the delay in producing the film since the 1990s had been to wait until the technology necessary to create his project was advanced enough. The director planned to create photo-realistic computer-generated characters by using motion capture animation technology, on which he had been doing work for the past 14 months. Unlike previous performance capture systems, where the digital environment is added after the actors' motions have been captured, Cameron's new virtual camera allows him to observe directly on a monitor how the actors' virtual counterparts interact with the movie's digital world in real time and adjust and direct the scenes just as if shooting live action; "It’s like a big, powerful game engine. If I want to fly through space, or change my perspective, I can. I can turn the whole scene into a living miniature and go through it on a 50 to 1 scale."[36] Cameron planned to continue developing the special effects for Avatar, which he hoped would be released in summer 2009. He also gave fellow directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson a chance to test the new technology.[37] Spielberg and George Lucas were also able to visit the set to watch Cameron direct with the equipment.[19]

Other technological innovations include a performance-capture stage, called The Volume, which is six times larger than previously used and an improved method of capturing facial expressions. The tool is a small individually made skull cap with a tiny camera attached to it, located in front of the actors' face which collects information about their facial expressions and eyes, which is then transmitted to the computers. This way, Cameron intends to transfer about 95% of the actors' performances to their digital counterparts. Besides a real time virtual world, the team is also experimenting with a way of letting computer generated characters interact with real actors on a real, live-action set while shooting live action.[38]

In January 2007, Fox announced that the studio's Avatar would be filmed in 3D at 24 frames per second. Cameron described the film as a hybrid with a full live-action shoot in combination with computer-generated characters and live environments. "Ideally at the end of the day the audience has no idea which they’re looking at," Cameron said. The director indicated that he had already worked four months on nonprincipal scenes for the film. Principal photography began in April 2007,[39] and was done around parts of Los Angeles as well as New Zealand. The live action is shot with the proprietary Fusion digital 3-D camera system developed by Cameron and Vince Pace. According to Cameron, the film will be composed of 60% computer-generated elements and 40% live action, as well as traditional miniatures.[40] The performance-capture photography would last 31 days at the Hughes Aircraft stage in Playa Vista, Los Angeles, California.[27][41] In October, Cameron was scheduled to shoot live-action in New Zealand[14] for another 31 days.[5]

To create the human mining colony on Pandora, production designers visited the Noble Clyde Boudreaux drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico during June 2007. They photographed, measured and filmed every aspect of the rig, which will be replicated on-screen with photorealistic CGI.[42] Around 1000 people worked on the production.[41]

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Yes, special glasses are required. But they are advanced 3D glasses not the red and green cellophane of old!

Here is a little background from Wiki

Ah, right. Cheers

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

It does look good, will prob go and see it.

 

[Acker79]

£13.50 and £15 plus £1.50 booking fee £15 are for the 'roomier' seats.

Bit pricey, but hey it's a one off!

For 13.50 I've been to see 14 films this month. I'm not in any rush to spend that on one film. (for 13.50 a month I've seen 112 films since january).

I don't know if my dislike of Cameron is tainting my view, but the trailers aren't really doing it for me, Re: Avatar.

 

[footychick]

Trailer looked good in 3D.