Avatar was a movie which has virtually changed the face of the movie world. The film used cutting edge animation technology which gave the characters a more lifelike feel and most of all used a very advanced form of 3d animation. This animation is different from the days of 3D animation back in the eighties that everyone is probably familiar with.

During this era of 3D people were given a pair of paper glasses with a red and green lens in each eye. As you looked through it the 3d was flat and unimpressive. To further the problems 3d animators were obsessed with trying to show off what they technology could do and they would frequently animate objects flying at the audience for the shock appeal. The problem with this is that it distracted from the rest of the movie. Rather than people coming away thinking about how incredible the movie was they would simply speak about how cool the objects being thrown at them were.

This is where avatar innovated the movie industry. The film did not try and capture the audience's attention by showing off the power of the three dimensional capability but rather worked the element into the move subtly to enhance things like flying fight scenes. This made it so that the audience essentially forgot about the 3d dimension and was simply better immersed into the film.

This type of technology has been so popular that most of the major television manufacturers are scrambling to make televisions which can support the new media format.

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