James Cameron gave an interview on NPR and he described how during shooting, the actors were in a motion-capture space but he vaguely referred to two different computers processing the capture data, resulting in one of the monitors Cameron watched showing the actors in Pandora, as they were being filmed/captured.
He said the resolution wasn't the same as the final film output but he could "preview" scenes of the film that way.
He obviously didn't get technical about it on NPR but is this a standard setup or could it be one of the many things they developed for making this movie with a huge budget?
Was it just compositing over a prerendered backdrop or could they have been rendering Pandora and movement in real time?
He said the resolution wasn't the same as the final film output but he could "preview" scenes of the film that way.
He obviously didn't get technical about it on NPR but is this a standard setup or could it be one of the many things they developed for making this movie with a huge budget?
Was it just compositing over a prerendered backdrop or could they have been rendering Pandora and movement in real time?