Avatar: The Way of Water VFX Highlights | Wētā FX

3,240 shots (98% of the total shots in the film), 2,225 featuring water

Our brief was simple, create emotionally engaging digital characters that blended naturally with their live-action counterparts in photorealistic CG environments.

To get there we needed new water and facial animation techniques as well as more advanced virtual production workflows. These included a real-time in-camera depth compositing as well as underwater performance capture and a new performance-driven cable-cam eyeline system developed with Lightstorm Entertainment.

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Across three decades, our trailblazing work has so far earned seven visual effects Academy Awards®, 14 Academy Sci-Tech Awards and seven visual effects BAFTA Awards in addition to 58 Visual Effects Society Awards, awarded to us by our peers.

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Avatar: The Way of Water VFX Highlights | Wētā FX
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