Josh Friedman is best known for scripting Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds and Fox’s “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” and now James Cameron has recruited his services to help with the screenplays for Avatar 2.
The sequel to the 2009 hit is expected to begin filming in 2014 for what may end up being The Hollywood Reporter, which describes the footage as such:
He then showed a series of clips, starting with a live capture created on a stage last November, which was set on Pandora and featured a human as well as the Na’vi. “This was our first foray into what we wanted to do,” Landau told the audience, pointing to noticeable improvements in aspects of the image including lighting and shadows.
The next examples came out of Autodesk’s virtual production software Motion Builder, and again showed a notable advancement in quality. “Ultimately our goal is to get to this on stage [for live capture],” he said. “This is going to allow Jim to light the scenes and make the process more efficient… and focus on what is most important–the close up. Movies about storytelling.”
via The Wrap
