![]() ![]() ![]() Something else that would have inconveniently disrupted the performance capture: actors with their pesky respiratory needs. “Avatar: The Way of Water,” which opened Friday, represents a new milestone in the evolution of visual effects technology: underwater performance capture. “If an actor is genuinely in water, there’s a viscous resistance. “It’s about the credibility of the actor’s performance,” said Richie Baneham, a visual effects supervisor with Cameron’s production company Lightstorm Entertainment. According to members of Cameron’s crew, the director insisted on “wet-for-wet.” When it came to realising those watery scenes, there would be none of the usual Hollywood “dry-for-wet” performance-capture techniques: actors dangling from wires, feigning weightlessness, making vague swimming motions in the air. The screenplay, which he wrote with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, described many scenes in the water and underwater with a semiaquatic Na’vi clan called the Metkayina. ![]() With his long-awaited follow-up to “Avatar,” Cameron set about exploring more of Pandora. ![]()
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