Here are the only two Avatar: The Way of Water shots that don't use CGI

Avatar: The Way of Water
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Speaking to during the BAFT﷽As, senior visual effects supervisor Eric Saindon revealed there were only two shots in Avatar: The Way of Water that were untouched by CGI.

"There’s one of Spider’s eyeball and th🙈ꦆere’s one of the bottom of the ocean and just some ripples in the bottom of the water," Saindon says, adding that everything else was either "created" or "added to."

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Three more Avatar sequels are also planned for 2024, 2026, and 2028. Director Producer Jon Landau revealed back in October than the first act of Avatar 4 had almost🍸 completed filming. The third Avatar movie, currently untitled, will also 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:introduce fire Na’vi to the fran꧙chise alongside a second culture.

We recently spoke to C🔯ameron about Titanic’s 25th a🧔nniversary, including why he thought the film would be a career-ender.

"When I was in the last six months of finishing the film, I knew my career was over, I knew we weren't going to make a dime, I knew that we had put a gigantic dent in 20th Century Fox's treasury, and that I would never be forgiven for the rest of my life," Cameron told us. For more, click through to see 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:our complete interview.

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