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After spending my semester in a digital art class I learned a lot about the difficulties in creating images on the computer. Learning the processes and how long it takes just to render a video stream or to fix an image in a program. The people that made the movie Avatar had to have spent hours sitting at computers rendering images and fixing anything that looks wrong. If anything had to be fixed, even the smallest detail, creating the computer generated scenes must have taken days, months possibly years. James Cameron made Titanic, Terminator, Total Recall, The Abyss, True Lies and Aliens. He's mad about special effects, That's why Avatar has over three thousand of them. There are about twenty-five frames in a second. Completing a single frame of these effects would take more than thirty hours.The creators of Avatar used completely new technology to capture the facial movement and features of the actors in the film. Not only creating new species of human like creatures, but also a completely new world, and using this high-end technology to be making an almost 3 hour movie. Had to have taken the makers of this movie an extremely long time to create. The near-900 strong crew spanned across six locations are practically working around the clock to achieve what was deemed impossible a decade earlier. All this from a man, who's actually advised NASA, about cameras that they should use on a future mission to MARS. But does all this tech and all that money (Avatar cost about $230 million to produce - the most expensive movie ever made) translate into a classic?
After spending my semester in a digital art class I learned a lot about the difficulties in creating images on the computer. Learning the processes and how long it takes just to render a video stream or to fix an image in a program. The people that made the movie Avatar had to have spent hours sitting at computers rendering images and fixing anything that looks wrong. If anything had to be fixed, even the smallest detail, creating the computer generated scenes must have taken days, months possibly years. James Cameron made Titanic, Terminator, Total Recall, The Abyss, True Lies and Aliens. He's mad about special effects, That's why Avatar has over three thousand of them. There are about twenty-five frames in a second. Completing a single frame of these effects would take more than thirty hours.The creators of Avatar used completely new technology to capture the facial movement and features of the actors in the film. Not only creating new species of human like creatures, but also a completely new world, and using this high-end technology to be making an almost 3 hour movie. Had to have taken the makers of this movie an extremely long time to create. The near-900 strong crew spanned across six locations are practically working around the clock to achieve what was deemed impossible a decade earlier. All this from a man, who's actually advised NASA, about cameras that they should use on a future mission to MARS. But does all this tech and all that money (Avatar cost about $230 million to produce - the most expensive movie ever made) translate into a classic?
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