Director
James Cameron is always pushing the envelope of what is achievable in
live-action film. From Terminator, passing through Aliens, The Abyss, T2,
Titanic, and more "recently" the huge box-office hit that was Avatar,
Cameron's imagination and desire to tinker with technology is constantly
propelling the industry forward.
Speaking
to Collider, WETA Digital's Joe Letteri revealed that Cameron's Avatar sequels
will once again be pushing the technology.
"We
will be. We know that because we know what’s coming. But the work now is
very much the nuts and bolts. There’s a lot of engineering work going on
just to build the infrastructure for what we’re going to need to do throughout
the next three films. There’s a little bit of creative work that we’re
just starting to dip into, but there’s infrastructure that needs to be built
and that’s where most of our work has been so far."
From Star Wars (1977),
The Abyss, Jurassic Park, The Lord of The Rings and Hobbit trilogies, King Kong,
Apes franchise, Man of Steel, and more, Letteri's CV is one that impresses, but
how do let's say The Hobbit or LOTR compare to what's ahead?
"I
think what we’re trying to do for the Avatar sequels will be
the most ambitious things we’ve ever tried. James [Cameron] just has such
a complete idea of this world – and it is a whole world and it’s a story he wants
to tell over three more films. It’s huge in terms of breadth and it’s
detailed in innumerable ways I couldn’t get into. It’s the kind of
project that requires both very specific high level realism at a small
micro-level and that micro-level realism needs to work across an entire planet."
This
year we witnessed a major break in performance capture when the technology
finally moved from the soundstage and into locations in Matt Reeves' Dawn of Planet
of the Apes. A few months ago it is was reported that one of the Avatar sequels
will feature some underwater scenes, and considering just how long it took to
get the tech outside, how far are we from having it dive underneath the waves?
"That
will be major but for us it’s still on the drawing boards. We haven’t put
anybody into water yet. We’re just trying to work out the infrastructure
for it first."
Source
- Collider
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