Avatar: The Way of Water with James Cameron and Guillermo Del Toro (Ep. 400)
The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast
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Simulcamp, Real-Time Composite on Set
We built a lot less than we did on the first film. The key to it was what are called real-time depth. We're not using blue screen or green screen. There's no alphas. It's done volumetrically. So characters, you can walk right through the CG character and you can actually put your hand into the CG character. And that's how the puppeteers that are doing the the eye lines are figuring out where to be. They just put their face in there until they line up. You've got right there on the monitor is the shot as it will appear in the movie more or less.
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