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Avatar Scenes Without CGI
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so that's what pandora actually looks
like james cameron's avatar is one of
the most visually stunning films ever
made but what does it look like without
all the cgi the animators have taken
what the actors are doing and gone even
beyond that natieri lives a pretty
unique lifestyle as one of the navi on
the planet of pandora one of the things
that we see nati partake in is drinking
water from a leaf but because director
james cameron loves to rely on
technology innovation the way that the
scene was actually filmed without cgi
may surprise you zoe saldana was
required to work with a grey plastic
contraption to model as the leaf while
holding a water bottle covered in duct
tape to simulate water coming from the
tape we guess that's why they call it
movie magic it's the most high-tech film
in terms of its execution you may or may
not have had an awkward kiss in your
life but it probably wasn't as awkward
as it was for sam worthington and zoe
saldana when they had to kiss as jake
and nati while filming avatar while in
the movie itself with all the added cgi
the scene plays out romantically without
all the cgi worthington and saldana had
to kiss with their motion captured
jumpsuits and with green dots all over
their face so that the motion capture on
their character's cgi bodies would be
accurate and more real we created a
manually operated gimbal rig
that they could balance on one of the
most exciting action scenes in all of
avatar was definitely the flying banshee
obviously a lot of cgi was needed to be
done to bring the banshee to life as
there's no living real world counterpart
to the creature in order to capture jake
flying on the banshee sam worthington
was required to fly on the back of a
moving plastic structure where he'd be
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