“Avatar” sequel underwater performance capture plannedApril 8, 2013 - 16:17 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - After successfully applying the groundbreaking visual effects on his ambitious mega-budgeted "Avatar" four years ago, James Cameron is going to push the envelope yet again. The director "will do performance capture in water" to challenge himself to give a better experience for audience, AceShowbiz said. "We want to take advantage of the technologies brilliant people are putting out to make the next two movies even more emotionally engaging and visually tantalizing, and to really wrap up the story arc of our two main characters," Jon Landau said at the 2013 NAB Technology Summit on Cinema. "We have kept a team of digital artists on from Avatar in order to test how we can create performance capture underwater," the producer explained. "We could simulate water [in computer graphics], but we can't simulate the actor's experience, so we are going to capture performance in a tank." "We are looking at [techniques including] what we did before with reflective markers," he went on, "[It includes] how we record reference photography so that as we are going through the editorial process and the post-production workflow, we can see what the actors did and make sure that the final performance up on screen represents that." Cameron once said he would make "Avatar 2, Avatar 3, maybe Avatar 4." He said the second and third movies were "separate stories that have an overall arc inclusive of the first film," with the second having a clear conclusion instead of a cliffhanger to the third film. As for the fourth one, he planned to make it a prequel, set 35 years before the events of the first film, that deals with the early colonization of Pandora. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Putin congratulates Pashinyan’s birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his birthday on June 1. Opposition motorcade en route to Gyumri for large rally A motorcade of protesters headed by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is heading to the city of Gyumri. Ruling MPs, Foreign Minister talk Armenia-Azerbaijan processes MOs from the ruling Civil Contract party met with the Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in the Armenian parliament. Russia: Armenia’s frozen membership weakens CSTO position in Caucasus A Russian envoy said any step that could alienate the CSTO member states from each other is “deeply wrong”. |