I suppose Avatar is a case in point—it’s worth CGIfying human actors because otherwise they would be totally out of place in the SF environment which is completely CGI.
″There are a number of shots of CGI humans,″ James Cameron says. ″The shots of [Stephen Lang] in an AMP suit, for instance — those are completely CG. But there’s a threshold of proximity to the camera that we didn’t feel comfortable going beyond. We didn’t get too close.″
I suppose Avatar is a case in point—it’s worth CGIfying human actors because otherwise they would be totally out of place in the SF environment which is completely CGI.
″There are a number of shots of CGI humans,″ James Cameron says. ″The shots of [Stephen Lang] in an AMP suit, for instance — those are completely CG. But there’s a threshold of proximity to the camera that we didn’t feel comfortable going beyond. We didn’t get too close.″
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