Whoa! It’s down the rabbit hole time again.
Hats off to you all! 
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Jim eventually employed the entire digital arts community, looks like from the film credits. 
WETA’s really starting to get a ‘look’, as ILM did after several big projects.
Thanks for drawing the boundaries of imagination and reality so much closer together.
Pity you didn’t have Z3.5…
Thanks for all the very kind comments!
I have to say again that it was a team effort, and the team was amazing!!!
For those who are interested, here are the links to the Gnomon DVDs that I did. The DVDs cover my design process and the rendering of concept art.
I use Zbrush and Photoshop and explain the same basic methods I use every day as a Charater designer. ( forgive me, it’s hard for me to pimp myself :o)
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/712/
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/715/
Really impressive stuff Scott. The film was amazing, congrats to all of you guys! I’m really looking forward to your DVDs as well!
Crap! I just ordered those from Gnomon! LOL. I’m sure I’ll learn a lot too. Just astounding work man.
Great work…both you and the team!
I saw the film in IMAX3D Saturday night and LOVED it!
Great film!!
-Roger
Hi scott,I’m gone for a week and whole top row changed, NICE!!!,great work on the design for the Avatar creatures, saw this film on IMAX 3D, technically amazing and a visual strong stuff, keep amazing us… looking forward to your DVD’s and the future.
It’s beautiful! Really amazing
Really nice work, i didn’t have a chance to speak with you at your gnomon presentation, but John had great things to say. really well done, I’ll be ordering up your dvds in the future.
seen the film in stereo 3d, it was alright, the cg Na’vi natives was top notch, but some parts of the movie i didn’t like it, like the soldiers, it seems like they can’t make a good decision to shoot at the Na’vi, it’ll be a little better if they have snipers to back up assault team.
Sweeeet !
awesome stuff, thanks for sharing!
I especially love what you did with the banshee’s morph when opening and closing the jaw
Scott, very, very large congradulations to you and all of the folks involved in Avatar. I knew Avatar was going to be exceptional, but it really blew me away. I’ve seen it twice so far… :lol: . I do wish they had an IMAX theater where I live, but the Real3D wasn’t shabby at all! I’m sure everyone had their “moments”, one of mine was when Jake was being painted for his rebirth. I’m telling myself ‘those are pixels’, but my brain kept screaming no he is real and getting a clay body painting! Thanks so much for sharing!
Gary
I saw it tonight and believe this movie will become the standard for special effects like Star Wars was back in the 70’s (unfortunately the new Star Wars were far from the standard bearers of their era in special effects in my opinion).
Other than the storyline being hard to swallow by humans (almost completely all of us) being absolutely over the top greed bastards to purely evil - and making almost all of the marine types out to be the steriotypical movie dumb idiots (some of the best and brightest I have ever met either are or were in the Corps and many of them have given the ultimate price and are only memories to me now) - it was an awesome story and actually caused me to almost tear up a couple of times, heh - ya I am an old sentimental.
I looked - I mean seriously looked - for flaws in the movie and was just blown away by not finding a single thing that I could say - ahh - there are the special effects - it was so great that I just was able to get emmersed into the storyline.
Thanks for all the sharing!
very cute, very cute, but maybe you could elucidate (sorry, I haven’t read all the thread, so maybe it’s been asked already, I’ll read later on today): what’s with the cartoony look? why so cartoony and not more towards photorealistic? The skin bumps for example look procedural, all looks very clean and perfect. it’s fun to watch them, they’re extremely cute, but they’re not created in a realistic sense…
Hi Patton,
Awesome work!
Did you make design for other characters like Moat, Eytukan and Tsu’tey? Or that job did someone else.
Thanks,
andreja
No word to say exept: " My compliments for this great & amazing work "
Bye
You’re a lucky, lucky guy to have gotten to work on such a seminal film. As far as movies that change the course of what the artform can do… in my lifetime I’d go: Starwars, Jurassic Park, Matrix, LOTR, and Avatar. Great work.
This s ssuch a great work, Congrats man!
Cooooool!! thanks for sharing love that Neytiri sculpt top class!
Dan
Avatar is one of the best films I have ever seen, that fact that you worked on it in my opinion makes you a god among lesser equals great work