We go behind the scenes with the visual effects artists of James Cameron's Avatar sequel.
The film is up for four awards at the Oscars 2023, which are held on 12 MarchFans and critics of James Cameron's epic blockbuster Avatar have waited 13 years for a sequel.
The Way of Water has earned a Critics Choice Award, a Bafta and an Oscar nomination for its special effects - it also became theVisual effects artists Joe Letteri - who already has four Academy Awards under his belt - and Eric Saindon, who helped create Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, told the BBC about their return to Avatar."I just loved the story, the characters, everything about it," said Joe, looking back to when he was first given the script.
This let animators reflect the subtleties of actors' expressions in their computer-generated counterparts. This involved feeding scans of sets, actors and costumes into an algorithm which could recognise and reflect their pixels' location and depth in real time.
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