Wait and see Cameron invent the next 15 years of visual effects technology.

I'm assuming the story will be ahit but the tech and cinematography will be the leader for the next several years

At this point I would settle for a black & white footage on a VHS tape just to see what the story line will be.

I keep forgetting this is coming out soon

The sneak peek of Way of Water that played with the recent Avatar re-release looked absolutely other-worldly.

"James Cameron is constantly stating that he was waiting eagerly for the proper 3D cinematography technology to shoot the Avatar sequels and screen it on IMAX 3D. So there you go. This technology which was invented by Pawel Achtel, allows us the privilege of watching the stunning underwater sequences of Avatar 2, on IMAX 3D, correctly, precisely, strain-free, and with maximum immersion."

I prolly won't see this in 3d

>3D Beam Splitter and Nikonos Lenses

1 year ago this would have been scifi. Now it's something James Cameron is using for his movie.

that’s nice.

im just wondering how big the video file is

Avatar is the movie equivalent of Unreal engine tech demos.

It’s even crazier when you find out he was a truck driver and had no formal education in art/cinematography

Gonna have to change hard drives at the intermission

This is such a terribly written article for a content farm style website.

Apart from the hilarious sub-heading errors, i.e. "What James Camera is saying?", "What is Submersible Lenses", this writer doesn't bother (or hasn't had the experience) to communicate what is novel about this rig. In fact, it looks like he's a content farmer, who pulled out a podcast interview that Pawel Achtel did with Brett Stanley and just vomited the points out on text.

It's a really annoying feature of modern day news theft.

Anyway, I'll boil the salient details down for folks here, as well as a primer on 3D filming:

1. 3D films need to mimic the vision we get from both eyes. However, you cannot achieve the right distance between two eyes (the interocular distance) by putting two cameras side by side, because the cameras are so big.
2. To solve that, 3D films have long used a mirror rig/beam splitter: A mirror that allows cameras to be placed in an L shape, perpendicular each other, so that the right interocular distance can be achieved.
3. What is novel about Pawel's rig, is that rather than putting the whole L-shaped system into a waterproof housing, he made a custom water-infused housing for the lenses and the mirror rig. This allows for less image distortion.
4. He tested a whole bunch of 1980s Nikon lenses before selected two that were best matched in image quality.

That's about it.

It was mind blowing. I am a huge 3D fan and I can say without any doubt that this 3D was unlike anything I have ever seen before. The depth and separation were spot on, it was life like. Couple that with the incredible CGI too. Somehow Cameron has done it again and raised bar even higher for what 3D can achieve.

3D gets a lot of haters but I truly believe for this film 3D is the way to see it.

You’re desperate to know what the story will be but don’t care to actually see the film in its intended context/experience?

I suspect the Disney machine will turn on with the force of a thousand fire hoses pretty soon

I know, it sounds strange. But with so many promising news since the first one (2009), I was thinking, just give me the story line and I will do the visuals effects in my head myself. Like when you read a good book.

So same as the first movie

I think it's real weird we don't know the actual story to this film yet. Every form of advertising for this film is about how it looks

Yeah he bought textbooks relating to different fields in the industry to read while he was on the road

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