To solve one major Avatar: The Way of Water problem, James Cameron actually drew on knowledge from a film he worked on more than 30 years ago.
James Cameron was confronted with one major problem while making Avatar: The Way of Water, and his work on a film over 30 years ago ended up being the key to solving it. 13 years after the release of Avatar, Cameron's sequel continues the story of Jake and Neytiri as they deal with the return of human forces to Pandora.
“It turns out that to be able to capture underwater, you can’t have a lot of air bubbles because every one of those air bubbles is a little wiggling mirror. And the system that’s trying to see all the marker dots on the actors’ bodies so we can get their body motion can’t tell the difference between a marker dot and a bubble.
“The system just got overloaded and the characters kind of turned into like an octopus. We used black plastic beads on The Abyss to break that mirror surface so it looked like we were 1000 feet down instead of 60 feet down. That’s what gave me the idea [of using translucent ping pong balls to cover the surface] and I proposed that.”
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