Why did George Lucas’s VFX Avatar refused from James Cameron?

It seems that “Avatar” from James Ceron 2009 “Avatar” has been praised and extensively on an equal footing. The film’s text is often reserved because of his simple dialogue, a weak description, and an embarrassing “original”. At the same time, though, one cannot make mistakes in the movie because of its impressive special effects. Cameron used the most advanced computers available to visually realize the pandora and NA’VI, making it look realistic as much as it can. And he succeeded. The effects are legally amazing. Say what you want about the story, “Avatar” is one of the most produced movies.

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The leading visual effect company was on “Avatar” Wētā FX, based in New ZealandThe studio responsible for “Lord of the Rings”, and many others. The huge volume of digital effects has raised prices to “Avatar”, leaving its budget somewhere nearly 237 million dollars. As we all know, “Avatar” made all this money again and then some. As of the writing of these lines, it achieved $ 2.93 billion, and it was modified for inflation, which is the second highest movie in all times.

“Avatar” was disturbed by the plum of wētā, and won the FX House Academy Award. I was only Wētā, “Avatar”, after James Cameron rejected by Industrial Light & Magic, one of the first visual impact companies in America. George Lucas has been established, and many, who supervised FX for some of the largest films ever, from “Star Wars” to “sinners”. It is very everywhere, one can assume that ILM has worked on any major studio version of any kind of visual impact at all.

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Only ILM did not do the main work on “Avatar”. Which seems strange. Eyle certainly wants the entire job on “Avatar”. Why did they reject it? A new episode of the documentary “Industrial Light & Magic”, Covered an article in DexroHe explains that Elm has led to James Cameron’s retreat because they wanted to take a less dangerous project. They passed by “Avatar” to work on “Rango”.

To clarify, ILM contributed to “Avatar”, which was brought at the last minute to help some cleaning in the science fiction compounds of the film. It was not an essential part of pre -production, and they had nothing to do with the NA’VI scenes that captured the movement. They also stirred some scenes of the mentioned vehicles that launch their weapons in the giant Na’vi tree during the peak of the movie.

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Dextero’s article spoke to Janey Lewin, ILM General Manager, about that fateful day in 2006 when they were first shown in the emerging “Avatar” project. ILM was keen to use it at the time, as it collected a few minutes of test shots depicting some actors in Na’vi. For the test ball, they turned Daniel Piece into the role of Na’vi Jake Slly, and Yongyin Kim into Neytiri. At that time, Pace became famous for a regular role in “24”, and Kim starred in Kim in many Korean excitement. Cameron admired the ILM test set and provided them with the job. But they rejected him amazingly. As for the interpretation, Luen said:

(W) “Avatar” rejected several months after the bidding (ON), and working on a test that made it green. Our leadership at the time, when they faced (they said), “Well, this may be an inaccurate matter, it is very huge.” They were not ready to bear these risks.

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ILM had worked with Verbinski on his films “Pirates of the Caribbean”, and the idea of ​​the director from West Bonkers with modern chamelers was interesting enough to ensure the production of ILM is the first very animated feature. To be fair, “Rango” is amazingly strange (positive). But “Avatar” was very large and frightening for ILM, and they were more comfortable working on Cameron’s Mega-FLICK.

I wonder if they are regretted at all. Maybe not. They have their own strikes.