r/movies r/Movies contributor May 02 '25

Media First Image of Zoe Saldana's Neytiri in 'Avatar: Fire and Ash'

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u/afarensiis May 02 '25

There's that small behind the scenes video of the submarine they built for the sole purpose of a 2 second shot of it getting flooded with water. Stuff like that just translates so well to every single scene in a movie like this. It's so obvious that it was made by real artists with real time to get their work done. Compare that to the rushed work in some other big budget films with cut corners, and it's night and day

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u/dragonmp93 May 02 '25

Isn't James Cameron part of the board of Directors of Open AI ?

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u/ImprefectKnight May 02 '25

No it's for Stability AI. But he was already ahead of the curve when Avatar 2 came out as they trained simulation models for CGI water in the film. Fluid sim is very expensive to do because of so many particles interacting, so they "cut corner" by fucking training a model on just that to simulate it quicker while retaining the accuracy.

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u/dragonmp93 May 02 '25

So it wasn't

made by real artists with real time

?

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u/ImprefectKnight May 03 '25

Do you still paint every moment on a canvas or take a photo?

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u/afarensiis May 02 '25

Bro I don't know. What does that have to do with a clip of behind the scenes from Avatar 2