{"id":3740,"date":"2010-02-04T11:17:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=3740"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:18:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:18:28","slug":"creating-pandora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/creating-pandora\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Pandora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/movie\/1809804784\/video\/17711648'>A fascinating view into the cameras and technology used in <cite>Avatar<\/cite><\/a>. The new technology included a virtual camera that lets you physically shoot a virtual scene, augmented reality that overlays live footage with CGI backgrounds, face-scanning cameras, and a combination 2D\/3D camera.<\/p>\n<p>Another innovation was adding imperfections (camera movements, lens flares) to make a &#8220;perfect&#8221; virtual world more believable.<\/p>\n<p>Really interesting to think about what this technology might do when released to the world in a few years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> i09 has a bunch of great interviews with designers who worked on <cite>Avatar<\/cite>: [part 1](http:\/\/io9.com\/5420143\/5-designers-reveal-secrets-of-james-camerons-avatar), [part 2](http:\/\/io9.com\/5444960\/avatars-designers-speak-floating-mountains-amp-suits-and-the-dragon), [part 3](http:\/\/io9.com\/5460957\/the-complete-history-of-pandora-according-to-avatars-designers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating view into the cameras and technology used in Avatar. The new technology included a virtual camera that lets you physically shoot a virtual scene, augmented reality that overlays live footage with CGI backgrounds, face-scanning cameras, and a combination 2D\/3D camera. Another innovation was adding imperfections (camera movements, lens flares) to make a &#8220;perfect&#8221;&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/creating-pandora\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386,354,379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concept-design","category-films","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-Yk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4980,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}