James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young

Suki I writes "An article at EW discusses another use for Avatar's sophisticated motion-capture technology: 'Sure, it's terrific for turning human actors into big blue alien Na'vis. But the photorealistic CGI technology James Cameron perfected for Avatar could easily be used for other, even more mind-blowing purposes — like, say, bringing Humphrey Bogart back to life, or making Clint Eastwood look 35 again. "How about another Dirty Harry movie where Clint looks the way he looked in 1975?" Cameron suggests. "Or a James Bond movie where Sean Connery looks the way he did in Doctor No? How cool would that be?"' The article goes on to quote Cameron as saying you would still need actors to play the roles, and that an ethical line needs to be drawn somewhere."

Comments

Re:Sparticus?

[tjstork]

You seem to be under the impression that the world in general wants the US to continue. Interesting.

You seem to be impression that I care about what the rest of the world thinks. If you ask me, I would:

a) Stop all imports from mercantile countries to the USA

b) Withdraw the USA from NATO, and maybe even the UN as well.

The world can do what it wants, so long as the USA is not a part of it.

Ha

[Rix]

Do you lot make anything anymore? You don't have any oil.

Have fun with that.

Re:Avatar did not address the uncanny valley

[lawpoop]

Those weren't humans, they were blue skinned aliens with very different facial features

He's talking about the human characters. ( and not the ones in avatars.)

I'm far far FAR from unbiased on this, but if you wanted to speculate on making actors look younger, you'd still be better served looking at Benjamin Button.

Man, for all the geeks on slashdot, nobody really understands what they saw.

In case you missed it, *all* the actors you saw on screen were CG'ed from motion capture. They captured the muscle movements of the actors and used that as the basis for CG. All those wrinkles on Weaver's human character? CG. They didn't have to put them there. They could make her appear as a 20-year-old, or as a man.