We’ve got a new article featuring another set visit, this time focusing more attention to the CGI and movie magic of the The Last Airbender.
On a private tour with other select journos, VFXWorld initially spoke to Marshall, who explained the scope of the ambitious film.
“We are creating a completely fantastical, make-believe world,” Marshall said referencing the cavernous converted sound stage that was home to more than five huge sets representing key sites within the four nations. All of them were impressively practical while also including the telltale green-screen drapes and vfx set extension markers that portend the vast amount of CG work to come.
Marshall continued, “A couple of firsts on this film for Night: One is shooting all this green-screen. He’s never really done much of that before…at all. He’s expanding his talent and range and that’s what I find exciting about it. He’s taking his filmmaking style and applying it to this fantasy world, which he hasn’t done before.
“And for me it’s been really exciting because I haven’t worked on a movie, that I can remember, that has a totally made up world. We get into a little bit of fantasy in Jurassic Park and Back to the Future, but they are still in the real world. But this is like our Star Wars.
You can read the rest of the article at VFXworld.com
Tags: CGI, Frank Marshall, FX, m. night, Movie Sets
July 5, 2009 at 12:51 am |
first! i am sick of waiting. i want pics and set photos and cgi footage. appa and momo and everything.ahhhhhhhh
July 5, 2009 at 1:19 am |
WOW! This movie sounds more and more amazing with every article I read. I’m really looking forward to this!
July 5, 2009 at 2:41 am |
I like Marshall: he tells us a lot of stuff.
July 7, 2009 at 11:09 am |
Yeah… I follow his tweets so I don’t miss his Avatar updates.
July 5, 2009 at 1:34 pm |
“But with a movie of this scale with the level of CGI, they need nine months to do a particular shot of waterbending. So I’m already editing to hand over the shots.”
OMG WOW!
July 5, 2009 at 6:59 pm |
…first time with green-screen!?
Oh god! Please don’t mess this up, Night.
July 6, 2009 at 1:33 am |
maybe it’s a GOOD thing it’s his first time with green screen– that means he’ll be more inclined to let other people work with the green screen scenes, and he wont be as controlling. Or at least, that’s what I hope.
July 5, 2009 at 8:25 pm |
Dude! Every got-damn piece we get just makes it better and better! I want to see Katara and Sokka, soon!!!!!!!! I’m just not sure about the chick they picked for Katara, so I’m hoping we get some good shots, soon!
And I’m interested in who they pick for Toph, but I can wait, for that one!
July 30, 2009 at 6:39 pm |
100% chance Toph will not be in this movie. She’ll be in the second/third ones.
(Same goes, most likely, for Azula)
November 30, 2009 at 8:30 am |
The film is nothing more than M. Night Shyamalan’s joke on Asian anime and Asian culture, meant for those with the “I see dead people” mentality, imagining and seeing the Asian characters from the well loved TV series when others don’t.