Films that had been silent and colourless suddenly gained vibrant hues, sound effects and speech. Colour and sound led to huge changes for actors and designers alike. The over-expressive acting techniques demanded by silent films were dropped, and designers scrambled to work with colour materials. Hollywood really did enter a new world. Since then imagination and technology have pushed the boundaries of film ever farther. In modern disaster movies, New York is routinely destroyed, in vivid detail.
Here's how James Cameron will do underwater mo-cap for the Avatar sequels
Homo pandorus [1]. The Na'vi English: The People are a race of sentient extraterrestrial humanoids who inhabit the lush jungle moon of Pandora. Humans are known to refer to them as "blues", "savages", "the locals", "hostiles", or "the natives". Parker Selfridge at one point refers to them as "blue monkeys". Two Na'vi Rai'uk and Kyuna on a mountain banshee. Their bodies are more slender than humans.
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James Cameron is striding across a vast soundstage in Playa Vista, an oceanside district of Los Angeles. This enormous, near-windowless building used to be part of Hughes Aircraft, turning out parts for fighter planes during World War II. Even by Hollywood standards, Avatar is moviemaking on a colossal scale. A sci-fi fantasy about a paraplegic ex-Marine who goes on a virtual quest to another planet, it merges performance-capture a souped-up version of motion-capture with live action shot in 3-D using cameras invented by Cameron. If all goes according to plan, on December 18 Avatar will dissolve the boundary between audience and screen, reality and illusion — and change the way we watch movies forever.