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Avatar 2is all geared up to be released soon by visionary director James Cameron. But as he gears up for his magnum opus, the past came back to haunt him. Taking to Twitter, a VFX artist who worked on the original filmAvatar(2009) wrote a controversial tweet and then proceeded to immediately delete it in fear of backlash.
The artist spoke about how James Cameron took it a step too far to make his dream project come true…but at the expense of the VFX artists.
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In the now-deleted tweet, Nick Sinnot, one of the VFX artists to work on the Oscar-winning filmAvatar(2009) spoke about the tremendous pressure that he had to work through to get the VFX just right with a tight schedule on his head to maintain.
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The artist revealed that James Cameron abused the VFX artists to get the animation of the film just right but the artists had to suffer endless revisions which were unpaid. The people claimed that James Cameron, although a visionary director, took it a step too far.
“A fun thing about working on the VFX for Avatar was being the only major department not unionised and having Cameron exploit that fact with endless unpaid revisions then win a bunch of Oscars.”
Nick Sonnet later tweeted a humorous tweet stating“deleting a viral tweet feels so good, five stars”.The former tweet was quickly deleted in fears of backlash that the film orJames Cameronmight receive especially at a crucial time when his magnum opusAvatar 2is set to release.
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Nick Sonnet is one among many to come forward and tell the tale of the mentally-tiring working conditions for VFX artists. Marvel Studios recently came under a lot of heat when one of their artists too spoke about the working conditions at the studios which included working overtime and a toxic environment during work.
The controversial tweet happened right when theTitanicdirector is gearing up for his magnum opus and a sequel to the Oscar-winning classicAvatar.The sequel, titledAvatar: The Way of Wateris all set to release on 16th December 2022 in theaters across the world and much like its predecessor, the VFX breaks the barriers once again.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
