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'Avatar: The Way Of Water' Director James Cameron

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The Beauty of Performance Capture

I think that once you've established your master shot, your happy accidents become quite limited. But the beauty of performance capture is we can get a bright idea on take five and just do it completely differently. We can completely restate to the whole scene. So it actually becomes quite easier for the actors in a lot of ways. They're certainly more creative because you're not bound by what you've already done.

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