Avatar has been called the film of 2010, even though it was released in late 2009. Many credit this to the amazing story by James Cameron, and others say it's because of the visual effects. If you have ever seen the movie, the character's movements and facial expressions seem to be unlike any other animated film; that is because Avatar is not like any other animated film. The actor's voices isn't the only part they contribute to the movie; their facial expressions and physical actions are recorded through a new technology called motion capture which essentially records someone's movements and translates them onto a digital model. Most of the physical stunts that are performed in the movie are actually performed in real life by the actors. Motion capture isn't the only thing that is what helped make Avatar such a huge success; James Cameron, who is the director, used a new camera called the virtual camera; what this does is it allows the director to view the "actor's virtual counterparts into their digital surroundings in real time, allowing the director to adjust and direct scenes just as if shooting live action". Before seeing Avatar, when I hear that it was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars I thought it was ridiculous that a "cartoon" would be with regular films; however, this was before I saw the movie and how it was made, changing my classification of it from "cartoon" to film. After watching the following, The Making of Avatar, I was completely amazed how technology has developed to allow such a movie to be filmed at the most "mind-blowing" standards. Avatar has changed the future of film-making forever.
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