Jameseims Cameron's Ultra-Hit Avatar in 2009 appears to be praised and lambed in equal measure. The film's script is often ridiculed for its simple dialogue, poor characterization and embarrassing "Going Home". At the same time, however, the film can not be blamed for his glittering special effects. Cameron used the most advanced computers available to visually realize Pandora and Naba, making them look as real as possible. And he succeeded. The effects are legitimately incredible. Tell what you want for the story, Avatar is one of the most daring films ever made.

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Avatar's leading visual effects company was Wētā fx based in New ZealandThe studio responsible for the films "Lord of the Rings" and many more. The huge volume of digital effects was celebrating the prices of Avatar, leaving its budget around $ 237 million. As we all know, Avatar made all that money back, and then some. As for this writing, it made $ 2.93 billion and is, tailored to inflation, the second highest gross film of all time.

Avatar was a plum gig for wētā, and won the award at the House Academy. Strangely, Wētā got the Avatar job after Jamesesheims Cameron was rejected by industrial light and magic, one of America's premier visual effects. ILM, as many can tell you, was founded by George Lucas, who oversaw the action of some of the biggest films ever, from "Starwells War" to "Sinners". They are so ubiquitous, it can be assumed that ILM has worked on every great issue of the studio that has any kind of visual effect.

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Only ILM did not complete the main thing of the Avatar. That looks weird. ILM would certainly want the whole thing of Avatar. Why did they refuse it? New episode of the documentary program "Industrial Light and Magic", Covered by the article in DexterterHe explains that ILM turned Jamesesheims Cameron because they wanted to take a less risky project. They spent the Avatar working on Rango.

To clarify, ILM contributed to the "Avatar", which was taken in the last minute to help clean up the film's scientific vehicles. However, they were not an instrumental part of the pre-production, and had nothing to do with the scenes for NAI's penetration. They also animated several scenes of the aforementioned vehicles that fired the weapons of the giant tree wrapped during the culmination of the film.

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Dextero's article spoke with Janieni Levin, ILM CEO of that fateful day in 2006, when they were first offered work to the then unstable project "Avatar". ILM was looking forward to being hired at the time, collecting a few minutes of test shots, featuring several actors in Navi. For the test, they turned Daniel anger into the role of Navi Jejk Suli, and Eugene Kim in Natiri. At that time, Benj was best known for his regular role of "24", and Kim starred in several Korean thrillers. Cameron was impressed by ILM's tests and offered them a job. But they were surprisingly refused. As for the explanation, Levin said:

"(W) e rejected the" avatar "after a very, many months bidding, and working on a test that received green lighting. Our leadership at the time, when faced with (that, said)" Okay, this could be elusive, so huge. "They were not ready to take it.

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ILM worked with Verbini on his films "The Pirates of the Caribbean", and the idea of ​​the director of the animated Western with the talking chameleon was intriguing enough to order ILM to produce his first animated feature. And, to be fair, "Rango" is an amazing strange (positive) movie. But the Avatar was too big and frightening for ILM, and they were more comfortable working on an animated feature than Mega-flick of Cameron.

I wonder if they complain about it. Probably not. They have their own hits.