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9 statements about Avatar, every show
Cheung: Limiting AI Avatars to Three Seconds Maximizes Visual Realism
“The avatar is only really shown for the first like three, four seconds. Cause the avatar portion of it isn't that great, but if you just show like 3:04 seconds, it looks more real.”
Schneider: Attractive female avatars perform best for AI UGC ads
“And then the avatar, you just like, honestly, hot girls work the best.”
Mayya: AI avatars will replace the activities of human content creators
“And the avatar that we've done, right? Ah, certainly it is going to replace the activities of a creator.”
Cameron Predicted Avatar Would Make Fox Executives 'All the Fucking Money'
“I said, I think this movie is going to make all the fucking money, and when it does, it's going to be too late for you to love the film.”
James Cameron Accurately Predicted Motion Capture in a 1992 Digital Manifesto
“Cameron had written a digital manifesto, a passionately argued, thirteen-page document laying out where he expected filmmaking to go in the coming years. In his manifesto, he described something called performance capture. What he's calling performance capture…”
Dave Morin: Avatar Cost $500M to Produce and $500M to Market
“Avatar or whatever, and it was like five hundred million for production, five hundred million for marketing.”
Stromberg designed Avatar's organic world while Rick Carter designed military elements
“Later on a guy by the name of Rick Carter came on who was, we co-production design. He did the human elements, the military base, and I did the organic world.”
Stromberg: Avatar was mostly filmed via motion capture in Playa del Rey
“So actually, the entire movie, there was a section of the movie that was shot in New Zealand, which were actual sets and actual actors, but the majority of the film was actually all motion capture, which means that all the actors had a motion capture suit on, …”