Look, when James Cameron gets salty about something, it’s usually a good idea to pay attention. The man doesn't just make movies; he bends technology, physics, and studio budgets to his will to get what’s in his head onto the screen. He’s earned the right to be a little ticked off.And right now, he’s ticked off about something that should be obvious, but somehow, sixteen years after Avatar blew our collective minds, still isn’t.Let's dive in. - YouTubewww.youtube.comIt’s Performance, Not Just Playtime In a recent interview with Empire, Cameron let his frustration show about how people, even professional journalists, still misunderstand performance capture in his Avatar movies.He said:"The number of times in newspapers they talk about Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet voicing their characters ... It's like, yeah, and Russell Crowe voiced a character in 'Gladiator.' He also showed up for 12 months of photography!"He added:"But I think there's a point where the good work of the actors is not being acknowledged. It's seen as a second-tier approach to acting, when I think it's a more pure form than photographic acting. There's nothing sacred about a camera and a lens and a piece of film, you know? But they act like it is."Let’s be brutally honest. A lot of people still think of performance capture—or "mo-cap"—as a fancy version of cartoons. They picture Sigourney Weaver in a comfy booth reading her lines into a microphone, while a bunch of tech wizards in another room make a blue cat-person puppet mimic...
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