{"id":185940,"date":"2025-10-02T21:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/185940\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T21:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:37:07","slug":"james-cameron-is-still-finishing-the-vfx-for-avatar-fire-and-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/185940\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron is still finishing the VFX for Avatar: Fire And Ash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Avatar: Fire And Ash, the third film in James Cameron\u2019s epic sci-fi series, premieres in theaters December 19. But as of September 26, the movie wasn\u2019t quite finished yet. \u201cWe\u2019re going through the finish of the VFX now [on Fire And Ash]\u2014we have been, really, for the last two years, but we\u2019re really coming down to the wire now,\u201d the director told Variety in a newly published interview<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, not only is the VFX work coming down to the last few months before the release, but it\u2019s been in the works for years and still not done. But such is the way of a Cameron production, which is innovative and meticulous. Both the second and third Avatar films were shot all the way back in 2018 and 2019, and most of the time since has been dedicated to post-production. Really, the VFX work began before that, in the decade between Avatar and Avatar: The Way Of Water, during which time Cameron and his team were \u201cpumping tons of money, millions and millions of dollars into R&D to generate the best computer graphics simulations of water that were possible\u2014far beyond anything that had been done before\u2014because you have to understand the scope of the challenge in any one of these films,\u201d the filmmaker explained to <\/a>The A.V. Club<\/a> in 2023. \u201cWe started that process as early as possible, even before we were casting and all that sort of thing, creating those simulations. Then it all paid off in the final image because you can\u2019t tell that that water is not real water.\u201d<\/p>\n

And if it took that long to get The Way Of Water right, just imagine how much time is going into Fire And Ash, which Cameron has said is an even longer movie<\/a> than the previous one. But he explained to Variety that he\u2019s working to build a new \u201ccreative culture\u201d with his VFX team to get them to think about the \u201cnarrative purpose\u201d of any given shot. \u201cI\u2019m trying to get them to think in flow. Why does this shot exist? I could do anything. I could not have it in the movie. I could have done a completely different shot. Why do you think I did that shot?\u201d With Avatar: Fire And Ash, \u201cThe creative culture is so strong across all these artists that I can look at a shot for review for the very first time and say \u2018It\u2019s done.\u2019 That is the craziest thing. Anybody that\u2019s worked in VFX is going to be saying \u2018Whaaaat?’\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now that the VFX team has been in the trenches with this series so long, \u201cthey\u2019ve had enough input previously that they\u2019re now working within a culture that encourages the creativity and the specificity of our Avatar world and our characters. So this idea of really encouraging them to think as storytellers is really paying off,\u201d Cameron explained (adding that it\u2019s a quality generative AI could never replace). \u201cSo it\u2019s actually become a kind of crazily joyful finish. You know, it was a fraught production, let\u2019s face it, but it\u2019s been a kind of a joyful finish, because it\u2019s really starting to resonate and fire on all cylinders, and we\u2019re getting a lot of first look finals, which is nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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