Avatar Human Hardware Featurette
The video shows a whole array of sci-fi tech that the invading human army uses to conquer the alien planet of Pandora ,seems worth a watch . I wish this featurette wud have released earlier , Cameron couldve been earning serious cred (and good press) if he just flaunted the things hes already known to be a master of: big mech suits, futuristic aircraft and weaponry and the awesome visual effects that make it all look real.
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ps. this rocks.
All the cool shit looks like it was lifted straight from Aliens. The hound animals looked dodgy, like from a 1990's pre-rendered videogame cinematic.
With District 9 being executed so well, I don't think he's raised his CG bar high enough.
And I totally wasn't ready for how old Cameron's looking now!
I expected originality with this franchise ,i still hope to be wowed in the hall, lets see if it lives up to the hype .
Can I say LOL here? I mean I really love D9 but the two productions are worlds apart in every possible way...
Apart from them both being movies, in which the introduction of poorly integrated CG will ruin the beleif you have in what you're looking at.
Yeah, apart from that teeny tiny little point, lol away good sir
Overall I'd say I'm pretty interested in this film - but I have to admit I was a lot more interested before I saw any footage. Though, this is the first time I've seen this much combat footage, which does indeed look pretty awesome.
District 9 just looks so much better than Avatar
Having 1 character type + 1 mech + some fx + giant ship is a lot simpler than a whole world, but I still must say District 9 looks a lot more realistic and better integrated. The plants in Avatar almost look worse than Crysis.
To be fair I just posted most of the big screen shots I've seen, the trees bother me the most, then the clothes, then the human vehicles/weapons/guns that are cg. The blue people aren't too bad looking, but there isn't many animated clips to tell how well animated they are.
wait till you see it in 3D then judge.....
Eh, everyone is going in circles now about Avatar. It looks bad, the story sucks, they've used up all the good scenes in the trailers, and so on. Kinda boring, so it's fortunate that there's only 4 weeks of it left to endure.
I lol'ed and i lol'ed hard!
i guess i'm still a hold out for practicle f/x and animatronics, at least a man in a suit looks like a real object and not a cartoon.
haz we dont all have to like the things you do. it makes me .. ok i never actualy "LOL"
And no man in suit could have such proportions and definitely no expressiveness like these characters, even simple make-up covers up most of the subtle facial motion. Not to mention animatronics...
(It's spelled 'practical' by the way...)
I think the majority of the talk is in the new '3D' talks being applied to this saying it will revolutionize films and comparing it from black and white TV to color is off the mark and taking away from the actual movie. It maybe an actually good movie, I'll have to hold off until I rent it in about 6 months, to tell but so far from all the hype and the previews it makes me 'not' want to see it. I don't subscribe to the hype trains.
I still don't envy going to a theater and having to wear glasses to enjoy a movie.
I can not stand it that there are people with opinions different than mine though...I mean come on...have you been dipping your nuggets in fail sauce...get with the program and subscribe to my newsletter
we are not going anywhere if we are too afraid to leave same boxes.
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I dont believe this movie is about just CGI show off.
but this about the show about sci-fi fantasies, which is overlooked by many moviemakers
to whom expect badass space marines fight "monster aliens" this is not ur movie.
i agrees that the tree is kinda fancy, but also i don't want to see our very own earthy
palm trees are actually have clones in other planet, that just as bizarre as seeing ghost.
Personally, I'll be checking this out in the theaters, then make a decision. I just hope they don't continue trying to shove more trailers/commercials in my face before the release. Otherwise, I won't see it. I'm tired of seeing 60% of a film via trailers, and I can see this happening with this movie, because of the internet complaints.
and as for those comparison shots... avatar still looks better than crysis in my books.
Whargoul: it's called a "budget" and "post-production sound fx"
i hate to be troll like, but good grief...
Avatar looks too clean, theres no dirt, perspiration. Braids in her hair look machined. Anyone who knows anything about jungles, knows they wouldnt last long looking like that.
exactly man, the regular people and the furries. hehe jk jk
but good point on it all looking to clean, that shot with the cloth is a good example. im sure the movie will be alright it is cameron after all but people put him on such a pedestal that they will like anything even if it sucks, not saying any of his work really has yet.
I think all the discussion on the CG and "revolutionary" shit is kinda just making noise when what people should be more concerend if all aspects the film as a whole is going to be good.
I don't think people should fawn over it yet either. The problem I see is people picking at little details, just so they can say they don't like it. It really feels like people hating the movie because of all the hype around it. If this movie existed 20 years ago, people would be jizzing themselves over the CG.
http://streamingmovies.ign.com/movies/article/104/1047900/avatar_trl_thanator_chase_wmvhd.wmv
Regardless friends of mine who saw the whole Avatar day in Imax said watching the trailers and screenshots on PC was like comparing Doom to Crysis
Weta didn't even work much on D9 at all, they've done some shots with the mothership because they did the model for it and basically that's all beyond some concept art. Most of the post work was done by several Canadian VFX studios.
Hrmm saw yesterday that's its not even finished yet, 1 month before release date. Unfinished test screening?
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5737218n&tag=contentBody;housing
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Absolutely, by the looks of it this wud surely live up to be a Cameron class entertainer
I don't know if that is a fair assumption. Cameron is notoriously difficult to work with; [ame="
I was under the impression that weta did a lot of the environment work, oh well i guess the internet doesnt tell the truth all the time after all.
@dekard: Avartar Day was a world-wide 16min IMAX screening where they pretty much showed a 16 minute finished trailer
very well integrated.
From what I've heard, Cameron knows lots about CG and such. He's usually getting pretty deep into everything about his movies, and he began his movie career as a prop and VFX person anyway. Did you know that he personally designed the Alien queen and the power loader as well?
As far as I know he did this painting on his own.
Which kinda makes his impossible demands even more brutal
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I just want to state I don't have any doubt this movie wont look great or have its epic moments, but this film gets people talking about how CG looks almost real, and I just think there's a lot that looks really CG.
Although I enjoyed this bit..
hasnt changed much
compare the amp suits in this trailer to the way the girl drives the spider robot in Cameron's first movie.
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And they're beautiful, but I doubt it was his responsibility to make them 'work' i.e. model creation, rigging, etc. My impression from the James Horner interview was Cameron did not understand the process of creating a score.
I'm sure that he can create great designs, but I would surmise that after doing so he hands it off to a technical designer who must make concessions with reality (time constraints, gravity, etc).
All of the reports of how 'hands-on' and 'involved' he is are misleading as well. It doesn't sound to me like he's lending a helping hand as much as he's looking over your shoulder wondering why it's not perfect yet.
Don't get me wrong, I love Aliens and T2, my original point is others shouldn't claim laziness on the part of the cg studio for things not surpassing the uncanny valley.