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Posted by alexalvarez | Filed under News
Wow… what a frickin amazing movie this turned out to be!!! Thank you Neville Page (lead creature designer who hired me) for giving me the opportunity to be involved in something so special. I took a seven month ’sabbatical’ from Gnomon to work full-time in the art dept from ‘06-’07, knowing that the experience of working on an epic sci-fi Cameron was something I just couldn’t miss. There were about 25 artists at Lightstorm where I worked (more at other locations), and being in the same place as Neville (with whom I shared an office), Ben Procter, James Clyne, Yuri Bartoli, Tully Summers, Tyruben Ellingson, Daphne Yap, Jordu Schell, etc… was truly a privilege. When I joined the creature crew, everything was being done 2D or in clay, so my role was to bring in 3D so that I could further develop some of the creatures in ways that 3D is best suited. During my time there I also introduced the creature designers to Zbrush and, of course, they have all since then come to heavily rely on this amazing tool. I worked a lot on the Banshee, as well as the Leonopteryx, Fan Lizard, Woodsprites, Direhorse, and some other secondary creatures….resolving 3D models, doing texture/shader look development, integration tests with paintings by Dylan Cole, rigging and pose tests, animation, etc. Its crazy that this is almost two years ago… What Weta pulled off is just mind boggling. Really the most overwhelmingly intense non-stop visual feast I’ve ever seen. It has been quite a while since I wanted to see a movie again, immediately. I’ve only seen it twice, but I know another viewing is right around the corner. Hats off to the hundreds of artists who contributed to it and to James Cameron for being a genius (who btw wasn’t a tyrant as people say, but was always quite friendly during his weekly visits with the creature crew). And thanks again Neville! $2B and counting. Crazy.
6 Responses to “Avatar”
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gojira Says:
February 11th, 2010 at 12:32 pmCongratulations Alex! I went to see Avatar twice in IMAX 3D, and it was an amazing experience.
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Thomas Says:
February 11th, 2010 at 1:33 pmI could not find an email address to contact you regarding rights to use a model you created for a tutorial called mouth interior in my dissertation. I request that I may be given the rights to use this for educational purposes and no profit. Please contact me regarding written permission. Thanks
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Alireza Says:
February 15th, 2010 at 9:51 amhi,my name is alireza eskandari. i live in iran .
i love you
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NAvID Says:
February 17th, 2010 at 12:14 pmMY NAME IS NAVID DAEYEH.I LIVE IN IRAN(ARAK)
I love you and models you
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abhay sharma Says:
February 24th, 2010 at 10:45 amFantastic movie!
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zaniar Says:
February 28th, 2010 at 4:44 pmhi alex
congratulation for again but i just know every thing about you my mean you are great creature fortunately i saw avatar’s movie .
dear alex ive been working with (maya and zbrush realflow for 6 years by gnomon’s dvds . im happy due to i will be in gnomon just for study but i should to tell you are famous in iran believe it me!
