Recently, I09 ambushed and held hostage Reuben Langdon, one of the motion capture actors that played all the blue running alien guys in “Avatar”, soon to grace your 3D Imax of choice. Making “Avatar” was a high tech affair, but while the end result will scream sophisticated nerd, the actual process involved in the filming was more Monty Python. As you will see in these excerpts from the interview held at the Wraith Of Con party at Comic-Con.
So do they run you on a treadmill or do you have to run back and forth across the room [when you run out of forest?
Not quite a treadmill, but yeah, we’re in a big room just running through sticks, or those pool foam, what do they call them? Those pool foam things.
Foam Noodles.
Foam noodles. They’re being bombarded by foam noodles.
So Avatar is really made up of tennis balls, foam noodles, sticks … And a tight motion capture suit.
And tennis balls.
Fantastic stuff. Let’s hope film making never gets to be a purely technical and sanitized effort. Long live the Foam Noodles Of Avatar. Scan the rest of the interview at our good friends at i09.
