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It Takes a Year To Make Neytiri Say, “I See You”
http://30ninjas.com/blog/avatar-excl...neytiri-part-3
Avatar Visual Effects Supervisor John Bruno explains how every scrape, cut, and bruise on the lithe body of ten-foot Na’vi warrior princess Neytiri is part of a meticulously compiled physical record of her violent interaction with the invading humans and the Pandoran wilderness.
I like this quote about the visual effects work for the Neytiri/human Jake scene...
And the next thing that happened was getting Neytiri — the biggest issue was, this was the first shot where we see a ten-foot Amazon Na’vi, Neytiri, and basically a five-foot-seven or five-foot-eight human that she’s holding in her arms, and it was originally shot with some guys in a greenscreen suit holding Sam Worthington [who plays Jake]. And when they actually got Zoe [Saldana, who plays Neytiri], she was holding a ten-year-old boy in a motion-capture suit to try to get the difference in scale. But the first thing we saw that sort of showed up — this was kind of our test-bed animation scene — the first thing we noticed in the design was we had this great sci-fi scenario of this ten-foot woman holding basically a broken human, his emaciated legs; he’s a cripple, but she loves his person, she loves his being. And she’s holding him, and her Na’vi hand was almost three times as big as a human hand [Laughs], and it looked really weird! So that turned into reducing all the hands, almost all of them [in the movie], reducing them by 50 percent based on that scene. [Laughs] I mean, there was a lot of weird stuff going on.
Part 1 is a fascinating read too.. http://30ninjas.com/blog/avatar-excl...n-bruno-part-1
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