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Avatarverse Engineering with Adam Savage

Avatar: Braving the Elements

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

I love that you invited me to talk about the mechanics and the mechanicals of Avatar. I think that was animated on sixes right like four frames per second it was super little rez animation and the physics were barely there but still we were like oh every Saturday morning you know one of the things I like to point out about my favorite is that they never leave you confused by what's happening. For instance nobody's better than Spielberg at action sequences where you are in doubt in physical space. And Filoni is mind blowing about making the physics of the fights feel real. They don't have to be as good as Sifu Kisu or Brian Kinetsko because those cohere with

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