www.indiewire.com: When costume designer Deborah L. Scott first worked with director James Cameron on “Titanic” in 1997, she won a well-deserved Academy Award for her work; this year, she received her second nomination for another Cameron film, “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” and her achievement in that film is even more impressive.
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The avatar movies is one of my favorite series of film of all time, i watched the first one as a kid and became a favorite of mine for a while till the second one came out when i was in high school and that one became my new obsession for a good while, i saw the 3rd movie recently and while it wasnt my favorite one of the series(i still like the second one the best) i can say that it has some of the best world building and environment design that i have seen in any movie ever. The world of Pandora feels like a real place and not some place setting set up for story beats. The tribes of pandora are unique in their culture and their features and the clothes that they wear really reflect that, you can tell that the designer put a lot of thought into the world of pandora and the specific climate of the many tribes on the planet. While there are often similarities in terms of design no two tribes look the same.
While I haven’t really enjoyed the newer Avatar movies and have only enjoyed the first one, I must say that I do love the designs within the movie and their commitment to the inspirations behind the Nav’i (I’m not sure how to spell it anymore to be honest). What has always drawn me in with this franchise is the designs. I remember after seeing the first movie, I really wanted to experiment with the design of the Nav’i and make my own. As I’ve seen the movies continue, I’ve appreciated how the Nav’i’s designs change depending on their environment and where they’re from. You can tell how they have adapted to they’re environment through time visually with their adaptations and I find that fascinating. Not only that I’ve seen some of the behind the scenes work and how they inform the animators of movements and how to animate certain things is incredible, as discussed in the article.
I have not seen fire and ash yet but I am a huge fan of the first two movies and I've always thought how the costumes resemble so closely to tribal clothes, And they very much remind you of people who lived in the woods lived in the forest and I think that really resonates with this story. I really appreciated hearing how they started this design and that they wanted to play with the fabric and play with ideas and the reasoning was that's how the cultural aspect comes alive inThe clothes and I was really interested to hear that they could wear long skirts where it was cold they could cover their bodies for warmth but when they needed to climb up into the trees That they would be able to wrap in their skirts up into themselvesSo they were able to do what was needed for survival and to get around their environment.
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