Avatar: Painful CGI Suits Actors Had To Wear
3,259Putting together a film like Avatar is nothing short of an intense feat. The performers in this movie had their work cut out for them as well - they performed a ton of extreme and strenuous activities and all while wearing extremely restrictive motion-capture suits and carbon fiber helmets equipped with tiny cameras to capture all their facial movements.
Wearing the suits and helmets wasn't the only struggle - long before the actors even got to use this equipment, they would spend long days sitting while the creative team made full-sized body casts of the actors that were then scanned for the animators. When they weren't busy having their life-sized casts made, performers could be found in the middle of a giant sphere filled with lights and hundreds of cameras in order to capture every tiny detail of their physicality. While it might seem like nothing compared to all the intense activities we see them perform on screen, those long sessions could become very difficult since the performers had to be as still as possible until the team captured all they needed to.
As for what actually had to be performed while wearing these suits... Pretty much everything we see on screen! The actors learned how to shoot a bow and arrow - with their left hands no less - swing on vines, ride horses, and even scale up what wound up being a giant kind of beanstalk!
While all of this work and the painful process that was suiting up with the motion-capture gear was tough, The final result is a feast for the eyes and a testament to just how committed the actors were. Their focus and dedication absolutely came through.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:18 Body Casts
01:08 Head Rigs
02:11 Mocap Suits
03:06 Photograph References
03:43 Undressed in the Jungle
04:25 On Location
05:18 Military Training
05:44 Saldana in Action
06:27 Riding, Flying and Climbing
07:29 Group Training
07:50 Outro
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Written by: Thalia GK
Narrated by: Serena L
Edited by: V.Serhii
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