08 June, 2010

The making of AVATAR|Using Advanced Motion Capture Technology



Avatar’s new performance capture technology could revolutionize the way directors, actors and animators collaborate to create whole new worlds on screen. Director James Cameron explains the process.


Back in 1996, James Cameron announced that he would be creating a film called Avatar
A science-fiction epic that would feature photo-realistic, computer-generated characters.
He had a treatment for the film, which already defined many things, including the Na'vi – a primitive alien race standing ten feet tall with shining blue skin, living in harmony with their jungle-covered planet Pandora.


James Cameron on Avatar set with one of his stereoscopic cameras

The director were actually a genius,an intellectual mankind
He spend 8 years time to complete the movie and amazed the audience 
I'm Ashli amazed, and he would be James Amazed,LOL


 
What is motion capture technology?
First of all was facial motion capture 
Using a high-definition video camera attached to the face of an actor and markers on the face
Weta's in-house software was able to map out which muscles in the face were firing
In order to create and retain the detail in the faces,
Weta upped the ante in facial rig complexity and mesh resolution
Every motion of an actor will actually screen on the Avatar's characters

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