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I don't need to defend anything- I have nothing to do with either Avatar or LOTR. It is not true that "much of the body motion was also captured in the LOTR trilogy just as Cameron did it". The same company Weta Digital worked on both films. The mo cap technology was not nearly as advanced when they were making LOTR. Motion capture footage had to be heavily touched up to become usable. I already mentioned that most of the good scenes were done entirely by hand from scratch. Fast forward to Avatar, mo cap worked so much better. Body movement could be captured well but facial expressions were still a problem. James Cameron in different interviews suggested that facial acting could be tranferred automatically (check out the HBO making-of)but there were people who worked on the film said a lot of the facial footage had to be re-worked. It is up to you what and who you want to believe.
Originally Posted by chadbang /img/forum/go_quote.gif Okay, I still wasnt impressed with this defense, since I think much of the body motion was also captured in the LOTR trilogy just as Cameron did it (body suits with little dots capturing the actors movement). |
I don't need to defend anything- I have nothing to do with either Avatar or LOTR. It is not true that "much of the body motion was also captured in the LOTR trilogy just as Cameron did it". The same company Weta Digital worked on both films. The mo cap technology was not nearly as advanced when they were making LOTR. Motion capture footage had to be heavily touched up to become usable. I already mentioned that most of the good scenes were done entirely by hand from scratch. Fast forward to Avatar, mo cap worked so much better. Body movement could be captured well but facial expressions were still a problem. James Cameron in different interviews suggested that facial acting could be tranferred automatically (check out the HBO making-of)but there were people who worked on the film said a lot of the facial footage had to be re-worked. It is up to you what and who you want to believe.