Cutting Edge Avatar

9 years after his last release, James Cameron,one of my most revered sci-fiction directors,continues to hold sway while returning with Avatar.His repertoire speaks of movies like Terminator 2:Judgement Day,Aliens and Titanic.Its touted to have one of the most advanced visual effects ever,which is quite congenial considering the fact that Welta Digital,the New Zeland based visual effects studio owned by Peter Jackson,director of LOTR trilogy,has crafted the effects for this movie and almost 2 years were spent on perfecting the facial performance capture system to make the animated characters more enthralling and emotive.

Although the actors worked both on sets and against the "green screen" backgrounds,with the computers transforming them into their real time Avatar characters,the facial expressions,however,in lieu of the conventional method of putting tiny reflective markers on an actor's face to be reinterpreted by a computer into the expressions of a CGI(computer generated imagery) character,the actors were made to wear head rigs fitted with cameras inches from their faces to capture every minuscule expression on their faces.

The functioning of the virtual camera monitor-Simulcam used to collate all the visual information was obfuscate and beyond my reach since I am recuperating after the end of one of my worst semesters so far.As usual the vacillating nature of my posts will continue with the next three posts,probably being on the songs,movies and television series I adored the most this year which were not necessarily released this year.