thanks Avatar...

[artist4perry]

I watched Avatar last night in 3 D. It was beautiful! Not to mention a huge leap for animation tech. I went home with so much inspiration I can tell you!

One redneck cracked me up...........as we left the theater he said, "Whoever wrote that thang musta been on that LSD."


rednecks......entertaining normal folks for decades.

More like another guy who doesn't recognize hack writing when it slaps him in the face.

Ah, the writing was a version of Fern Gully. I loved it. Beautiful work. Regardless of the writing, it is a break through in tech. for animation............anyone can see it is a new era in films.

Is it really a breakthrough? I saw it as a quantity-over-quality thing. Just imagine a bunch of Gollums all over the place.

Yes, it is a breakthrough. To make that much animation over the grand scale, not just one character is amazing. The landscape itself was created totally by CGI. Amazing graphics. I guess because I am old school, and saw what they had to work with on Star Wars, and Jim Henson's productions, this is ground breaking. I was impressed by the plant life, and overall look of creatures and beings in the movie. I am an illustrator myself. So for me it is fascinating. Forget the story line, I am looking at the details.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8qpDBirtH4

[artist4perry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o47vlm603QM

The making of Avatar........behind the scenes

[verslibre]

Is it really a breakthrough? I saw it as a quantity-over-quality thing. Just imagine a bunch of Gollums all over the place.

The landscape itself was created totally by CGI. Amazing graphics. I guess because I am old school, and saw what they had to work with on Star Wars, and Jim Henson's productions, this is ground breaking. I was impressed by the plant life, and overall look of creatures and beings in the movie. I am an illustrator myself. So for me it is fascinating.

I grew up with films & FX through the '70s, '80s and '90s, too. Art has always been one of my passions, particularly SF/fantasy/comics art.

The fact that the movie was entirely CGI save the human actors and select chunks of hardware didn't give me a woody as it did everyone else. And six-legged blue horseys don't impress me. The story was predictable and cliché-ridden to a fault. I didn't want to see Cosmic Pocahontas.

In case you think they created everything from scratch sans inspiration from existing natural formations and flora:

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1051/avatarlj.jpg

Everything in the film is modelled on something that exists on Earth, including the large tubular flowers that collapsed when "Jakesully" touched them.

[brywool]

Too bad nobody could ACT in those movies. Especially the later ones. God, terrible.

Harrison Ford can't act?

He couldn't then.