James Cameron's AVATAR

[Siliconmaster]

Never DOF blur foreground objects in 3D! If it pops out at you, you might want to focus on it... which if it's DOF'd is impossible... and ruins the illusion. DOF only for the background, if at all... preferably not at all.

In 3D you have less control over what the audience sees... and so the common 2D trick of using DoF to draw audience focus just doesn't work.

Basically, the only way they could avoid that is to have everything in focus, which looks very weird and fake in 2D. It's a tradeoff- you either have it look perfect in 3D, or you have it look nice in both, and have to deal with those issues. After the first 10 minutes or so, I found that if I let my eyes follow the focus line, the movie placed everything where it needed to be in terms of focusing. After that, I had no problems with it. You just have to train your eyes not to focus on stuff in the foreground.

[kid908]

I agree with the DOF Blur. 3d already gives it that depth, you don't need to blur it, the eye will naturally do it.

They had to render it 3 different times times for 2D and 3D, I don't see why they couldn't turn off blur for the 3d version.

edit: live action camera blur is fine, but the pandora blur really kills the visual.

[Bodzilla]

i think you guys where thinking about the 3d too much when you where watching it.

15 minutes in i just let the movie show me where to look and i never had a problem.

[Bodzilla]

if your thinking about that too much your gunna give yaself a headache.

15 minutes in i just let the movie show me where to look and everything was brilliant.

[Hotrod]

I just saw the movie in 3D, and man, it was fucking amazing. There;s not much else to say about the movie that hasn't already been said, so I'll just leave it at that

[Heathen]

i think you guys where thinking about the 3d too much when you where watching it.

no, thats just it. I didn't even remember it was in 3d after a while.

It was soo immersive.

[Reaper Man]

Saw the 3D version today. The 2D version just doesn't compare. Damned awesome.

[Heathen]

Saw the 3D version today. The 2D version just doesn't compare. Damned awesome.

indeed.

[Phopojijo]

You know what the weird thing is? I saw the movie this morning at ~11:30am... and as the day progressed after I left the theatre, the more I liked the movie.

I started off cringing at Unobtainium and the campy dialogue at multiple points etc... but I guess as time went on I was thinking more and more about the higher-level story and theme and THAT I really enjoyed.

I dunno, it's weird.

Interestingly enough James Cameron said he has 2 sequels thought up (after the opening weekend success)...

I can't really think of any meaningful direction except the campy

ZOMG THE HUMANS COME BACK WITH A BIGGER ARMY HURRRR

approach... or the

Shrek-style sequels where it's like... following their life in the tribe itself

Both of which would seem to be *terrrrrible* no matter how they played it.

So yeah, I dunno. But -- I'd be interested to see what'll happen.

[Heathen]

I think it would be a

earth is pissed

sequel.