The system would use two high-definition cameras in a single camera body to create depth perception. After Grace tells him not to play with it or he will "go blind", Jake falls asleep in the avatar compound.

Jake refused, but Tsu'tey proudly reassured him that he would be remembered because Jake, as Toruk Makto, would be his last shadow. A week prior to the American release, Zoe Saldana promoted the film on Adult Swim when she was interviewed by an animated Space Ghost. A 5 disc set referred to as Avatar: Complete Score was announced, but the set was leaked ahead of the launch and ultimately never released commercially.

The success of the film also led to electronics manufacturers releasing 3D televisions [26] and caused 3D films [27] to increase in popularity. The first photo of the film was released on August 14, 2009, [121] and Empire released exclusive images from the film in its October issue. The teaser trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water was premiered at CinemaCon and was released exclusively in cinemas with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness before being released online in May. The following August, the visual effects studio Weta Digital signed on to help Cameron produce Avatar.

Jake runs from the thanator, who is after him, and loses most of his equipment and weapon in the process. That night, Jake undergoes the ceremony where Eytukan considers him as one of their own and made part of the People, with Grace and Neytiri looking on. Cameron had chosen Avatar over his project Battle Angel after completing a five-day camera test in the previous year. Cameron's plan has been for the sequel to kickstart a run of movies every other year until Avatar 5 in December 2028. The film was released in traditional 2D and 3D formats, along with an IMAX 3D release in selected theaters.He acknowledged that Avatar shares themes with the films At Play in the Fields of the Lord, The Emerald Forest, and Princess Mononoke, which feature clashes between cultures and civilizations, and with Dances with Wolves, where a battered soldier finds himself drawn to the culture he was initially fighting against. This scene shows Lyle Wainfleet reporting the scene of the attack to the Operations Center, where Miles Quaritch and Parker Selfridge observe the aftermath. Cameron described the film as a hybrid with a full live-action shoot in combination with computer-generated characters and live environments. Norm Spellman, Jake's avatar is attacked by Pandoran wildlife, and he flees into the forest, where he is rescued by female Na'vi Neytiri. Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora, a 224-page book in the form of a field guide to the film's fictional setting of the planet of Pandora, was released by Harper Entertainment on November 24, 2009.

The planet reacts to the arrival of the protagonist by immobilizing him with creeper-like tendrils from the surrounding plants that embrace him, an idea that was re-used towards the end of Avatar when Grace Augustine's and later Jake's human bodies were placed under the Tree of Souls for their respective consciousness transfers. Many Indigenous people saw elements about the Na'vi that resonated with them, particularly their struggle in defending their homeland from governments and corporations. From 2005 to 2007, Cameron worked with a handful of designers, including famed fantasy illustrator Wayne Barlowe and renowned concept artist Jordu Schell, to shape the design of the Na'vi with paintings and physical sculptures when Cameron felt that 3-D brush renderings were not capturing his vision, [53] often working together in the kitchen of Cameron's Malibu home.These include two of his "favorite" films, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where mankind experiences an evolution after meeting alien life, and Lawrence of Arabia, where "an outsider. The look of the Na'vi was inspired by a dream that Cameron's mother had, long before he started work on Avatar, in which she saw tall blue people. According to IMDb, men in general and women above the age of 45 are most likely to enjoy Avatar, while young girls under the age of 18 are the most likely to dislike the film. Avatar: The Way of Water Avatar is a science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, starring Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver.