A tour of the VFX tech that pushes the look of James Cameron’s 'Avatar' sequel — shot at 48 fps, twice the industry standard — into a deeper ocean. __ChrisLee reports
for the films’ overextreme clarity and “soap opera effect” , Pixelworks would help Cameron calibrate judder on a scene-by-scene basis. Motion grading would allowto toggle between the look of 24 fps and higher frame rates in judder-heavy action scenes. “A typical high frame rate is that fixed rate where everything looks buttery smooth,” explains Aaron Dew, Pixelworks’ senior director of ecosystem marketing.
Around 2012, Cameron began publicly championing the look of high frame rate but walked back those comments in 2019, announcing he would use HFR “sparingly throughout thethe format a “specific solution to specific problems having to do with 3-D.” In the intervening years, Pixelworks continued its research and development, extensively consulting with other filmmakers to get a handle on what Miller refers to as their “sensitivities and preferences and what they liked for different situations.
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