The New York Times has a piece up on James Cameron's $200 million sci-fi epic Avatar. The film, as Cameron explains, is a mix of CG characters and CG environments with live-action and live environments. And how does he plan to capture this? He (and his computer experts) have designed a special camera that allows him to view actors proformances in the film's virtual environment in real time. Cameron says:

It's like a big, powerful game engine. If I want to fly through space, or change my perspective, I can. I can turn the whole scene into a living miniature and go through it on a 50 to 1 scale. It's pretty exciting.

Sounds like it! Side note: Damn, James Cameron looks old. Brian Ashcraft

Avatar Film [NY Times via 3pointD]

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