Movies | April 27, 2009 | 1 comment

Our First Look at The World of Avatar and It Looks… Quite Like Aliens

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Somebody else to also pick up a copy of the latest Empire magazine has scanned perhaps the most interesting image from the entire publication and, via the magic of photoshop, given us an absolutely incredible look into not the set, but the actual world of James Cameron’s Avatar.

As well as showing you the image, I’ll also have to explain to you just how come we’re getting to see it.

So, before I post the picture, some context. All officially released Avatar images have so far been on-set snaps, showing James Cameron with cameras, computer gear and lots and lots of green. There’s one picture in Empire, though, that shows a monitor, and on that monitor’s screen, a real-time CG rendering of a shot. This is how Cameron is working - he’s having on-the-fly versions of imagery created so that he can look at his screen and get a very strong idea of what his composition will look like in the completed movie.

With a little perspective alteration, the screen image has been reformatted to appear front-on, as Cameron would see it on his monitor. Here it is:
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