“Avatar: The Way of Water” continues its unprecedented winning streak at the box office (it just finished its seventh week as the No. 1 movie and eclipsed “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” as the fourth most successful movie of all time). times), but it also just received four Oscar nominations, including one for Best Production Design, an aspect explored in this new report, which you can watch below.
What the video really does is make you appreciate the enormity of the production design of “Avatar: The Way of Water” and how painstaking the process went to the artists, technicians, and builders tasked with designing and manufacturing the world of Pandora. The short video features interviews with production designers Dylan Cole and Ben Procter, along with writer/producer/director James Cameron and his producer Jon Landau.
“When making a movie set on Pandora, Pandora doesn’t exist. Which means we’re not just designing everything in the world, piece by piece, but building it, either in the virtual world or practically on physical sets,” says producer Landau in the report.
“We decided that there were two worlds colliding,” Cameron describes in the video. “You have the human world that is highly technological and highly recognizable to us. And then we separated from the world of Pandora, the Na’vi, the creatures, the plants, all of that.”
To that end, we get to see behind the scenes and concept art of the villainous RDA and how they’ve expanded their operation to plunder all of Pandora’s natural resources, as well as the beautiful and harmonious world of the reef people, who live suspended. above the water in the roots of a giant tree. (This is “Avatar” after all, of course there will be a giant tree.)
Towards the end of the video, Cameron, in a moment of humility, says that he didn’t design anything for “Avatar: The World of Water.” “Why would he?” Cameron says in the video. “I have the opportunity to work with the best artists in the world. You see these designers and their brains are exploding with ideas. I wish I could write such a complete story that he could use all of his ideas. But it’s just not possible.”
“Avatar: The Way of Water” is already in theaters. See whether or not he’ll take home the gold when the Oscars air live March 12 on ABC.
