Jar Jar looked way, way better that the Na'vi? You weren't looking closely enough then perhaps. Have you see their facial animations? I don't know how and what cameron did but the expressions look too human, coupled with the skin textures followed by things like real water hitting those textures and how it fall off and dews naturally as if it were realistic skin..Jar jar was not this although he was a great creation (visually) that work is in no comparison to the Na'vi characters of pandora, visually speaking. And the blue aliens did have a green backdrop to them to distinguish 'em even more.
imo, Na'vi faces have the most realistic look out of any fictional cgi characters face i've ever seen in film since Beowulf. Imagine CGI ten years from now. It''s gonna shift into photorealism. Or at least a hybrid of the two. Photorealism is a step up from cgi. And it's the future.
imagine bringing back Bruce Lee or James Dean and have 'em look as real as they really humanly looked when they were alive while starring in your latest blockbuster.
imagine that. starring Leonardo DiCaprio and (a 20 year old) James Dean.
then video games'd follow after that, primarily during the late stages of ps4, and definetely ps5.
the future is wild and i've gone of topic. anyway, Avatar.
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all the cgi in the movie looked cartoony imo. it looked like a really, really detailed cartoon. not real though. the dinosaurs in jurassic park looked more real then any of the monsters in this movie imo.
I have to agree that the jurassic park dinos looked better.
and i think it is the colors that made it look unrealistic. it may of been better if they were a more earthy tone and not blue. Don't get me wrong though i did enjoy the movie
I thought it was cartoonish too, befire I watched it on the big screen.
The extremely vibrant colors was an aspect of that world, just about everything stuck out, similar to life on a coral reef, this does not take away from the 'realness' (for lack of better word) of it. Might as well argue that a corals look like cartoons.
The Na'vi looked awesome, their movements especially. The huge predator creature, the horses, both flying animals. It was all insanely good.
The human tech was just as good, although sticking to colors/textures we're accustomed with.
Plot has been done before and you can easily predict what will happen next. Think Dances With Wolves, Last Samurai, Little Big Man etc.
Eye candy is fantastic though, I saw it in 3D, wish I hadn't, as I can imagine the colors/textures would have been all that much more awesome in 2D. I hate 3D, as a guideline.
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