James Cameron's Best Special Effects

Avatar, 2009
When Cameron returned to feature-length filmmaking, he spared no expense in bringing to life the story and world he envisioned. The director had actually been contemplating the worlds depicted in Avatar before he even began working on Titanic. He waited for more than 10 years for special-effects technology to catch up to his vision. Having watched the development of creatures like Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, he felt that advances in photorealistic animation had improved enough for him to realize his dream.

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