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The Making of Avatar ハードカバー – 2010/10/1
No less epic, however, was the groundbreaking and exhaustive process of bringing the film to life. Early brainstorming sessions in Malibu jumpstarted a vast production effort that ultimately spanned several years and multiple continents. The Making of Avatar
reveals never-before-seen illustrations and photographs, with a text that charts the technical challenges, innovations, and discoveries that made the film's breakthroughs possible. Working in tandem, artists and technicians created new tools and processes to realize the film's vision, including those for performance capture, which allows the nuances of the actors' performances to be translated faithfully to their digital characters; a virtual camera system, which empowered Cameron to direct within a virtual world with unprecedented range, generate real-time composites, and blend live action and special effects more naturally and intuitively than ever before; and stereoscopic photography, which produced the most immersive 3-D experience to date. Here is the behind-the-scenes celebration of this monumental undertaking, the official record of how Cameron, the actors, and the crew made a film, and made history.
- 本の長さ272ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Harry N. Abrams
- 発売日2010/10/1
- 対象8 and up
- 対象読者年齢13 歳以上
- 寸法24.77 x 2.54 x 31.75 cm
- ISBN-109780810997066
- ISBN-13978-0810997066
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Lisa Fitzpatrick is the author of Abrams’ Art of Avatar. An award-winning editor, she has created books for a wide variety of films and television shows, including 24, Kung Fu Panda,
and an anniversary edition for the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
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- ASIN : 0810997061
- 出版社 : Harry N. Abrams (2010/10/1)
- 発売日 : 2010/10/1
- 言語 : 英語
- ハードカバー : 272ページ
- ISBN-10 : 9780810997066
- ISBN-13 : 978-0810997066
- 対象読者年齢 : 13 歳以上
- 寸法 : 24.77 x 2.54 x 31.75 cm
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I was initially nervous about purchasing this book despite the seemingly amazing price that Amazon offers it for compared to the list price; I had read that the "Art of Avatar" book was somewhat of a let-down for those who were as interested about the tech behind the film as they were the concept art. However, I'm quite glad to say that after finishing this book (which I practically sat down and read front to back over the course of two days) I don't regret a single cent that I spent on it.
To begin with (as another reviewer noted) this is a rather high quality book. It is large ("coffee table sized," as they put it) and is bound very well. The 270+ pages are heavy duty and the printing is excellent, though when I read it I did notice that it had a small chemical smell which to me was slightly worse than what you would normally expect from a book such as this. It wasn't enough to distract me from reading, but was noticeable at first.
That being said, the content in it is absolutely fantastic. In the spirit of full disclosure I'll also admit that I was a gigantic fan of this movie when it came out, seeing it multiple times in theaters as well as getting the movie poster and the "Pandora Survival Guide" in addition to the movie itself when it was initially released. But after reading it, I can quite confidently say that this book paired with the upcoming collector's edition of the film may be the end-all complete Avatar experience that people like me wanted immediately after watching the movie. Pictures are large and there's plenty of text which means copious amounts of content.
I had a good idea before getting into this book about how much effort went into production, but somehow the news stories and interviews just don't tell the whole story. This book really impresses upon you the granular level of control that Cameron had over the production of the film, essentially hand-approving every single aspect of the world of Pandora. To say that he went over the creature, set, environment and camera details with fine toothed comb would be putting it mildly. Additionally, the book spends a good deal of time talking about the technological aspects that the animators at WETA Digital went through to get from the crude performance capture data to the beautiful, photo-realistic result. It was refreshing to read in great detail about exactly how the wire-frames of characters were developed and things like the fact that the final characters required subsurface light scattering during the render process to really sell the reality to the viewer. Maybe I'm just an engineering nerd, but I found the descriptions of these processes to be extremely complete and interesting.
Of course the book also contains a good deal of concept art from pre-production, but this is something that I'm sure "The Art of Avatar" has a leg up on. However, this is somewhat mitigated by the inclusion of set pictures during filming in the "volume" including frame-matched comparisons between the rough performance capture shoots in 2007 and the final product two years later. As impressive as these are, I imagine the collector's Blu-ray will be much more interesting with full-motion comparisons.
A slightly disappointing note is the seemingly rushed description of what I am sure was a tremendous amount of work that went into the sound effects and score for the picture. I was disappointed when Avatar didn't get any Academy Awards for its audio and I was very afraid coming to the end of the book that it wasn't going to be discussed at all, but within the last few pages the writers manage to throw in a sufficient amount of detail on the sound and score.
All in all this is an excellent reference guide for those who want to know more about the making of the movie and who, like me, are huge enough fans that they can't wait for the collector's edition Blu-ray to release. Buy with confidence if you are at all interested.