Avatar features stereographic and 'Holotable' displays created by Prime Focus

23.12.2009

Prime Focus has contributed a number of shots to James Cameron's stereoscopic 3D feature film "Avatar." The movie, which premiered Dec. 18, features numerous stereographic and "Holotable" displays, animated graphics, immersive environments and other visual effects created by Prime Focus. Prime Focus designed displays for the Op Center's Holotable or a three-dimensional hologram of the "Home Tree," where the Navi, Pandora's indigenous population, live. Using the original live-action plate of a table with a greenscreen across the top, Prime Focus modeled the hardware that went inside the table, the projector beams, and added graphics projected above the table of the terrain, including the Home Tree. These graphics were designed in 2D in Adobe Illustrator, animated in Adobe After Effects, placed on cards in 3D and rendered in Autodesk 3ds Max. Prime Focus Software's Krakatoa particle system was used for the 3D terrain, which gave the images a scan-lined LIDAR-like quality, as if a satellite roving the planet's atmosphere captured the footage. [Image TM and (C) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. Not for sale or duplication.] [source]
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