but while the third Avatar While failing to land itself in the Best Picture race, a first for the franchise, James Cameron’s latest series entry entered entirely new Academy Award territory: Best Costume Design.
You would be forgiven for wondering how exactly this is possible. Not there. Avatar: Fire and AshesAlmost an animated film, created using state-of-the-art motion-capture technology? Aren’t the costumes more a matter of production design than actual craftsmanship of the costumes, as seen in other films nominated in this category? (Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, Sinners)? In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Avatar: Fire and AshesThe costume designer said his team actually creates the physical costumes for all those nine-foot tall blue guys. Like.
Deborah L. Scott, who has already received an Oscar for his work in Cameroon titanicexplained that despite the perception that their work on the film was entirely virtual, this was not the case. “This is actual costume design work. So to have it named and recognized as an alternative way of designing costumes is like opening the door to a new era.”
Every CG-animated costume you see on screen is based on an actual physical creation, Scott said.
“We build each piece, from the lungi to the necklace, to human scale and deliver it to Weta FX. They scan it and their artists start modeling it. Then we fit the samples to the nine-foot-long blue body, creating the costume a second time in the virtual fitting room. Then you can manipulate it. Maybe my human sample needs a little longer on my blue person. Then they work on modeling and texturing based on the road map of the sample,” she said. Explained.
He said, “If you hand a design on paper to a VFX company, which is usually the case in general animation, they take it from there and determine the content without knowing the specifics.” “A leather chest plate moves in a different way on your body than a necklace. Some animated projects have designers, but they’re not involved in the production. You can’t compare it to animation, because our focus is on realism.”
And just because Avatar Just because the movies take place in a fantasy setting – with characters who can go underwater or fly depending on the scene – doesn’t mean that VFX magic does all the heavy lifting. “We test every piece involving dancing or swimming or flying and hand them over to animators and simulators so they can understand how the costumes move in water or in the air, because that’s what the gym has the capacity and the demand for,” he explained.
The Oscars will take place on March 15. Will Avatar: Fire and Ashes Achieve a new milestone in the costume design category?
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