Adobe and Avatar- Software to Silver Screen and beyond

An interesting look at how Adobe's software helped create the characters and environments in James Cameron's Avatar.  

The movie Avatar takes viewers to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on an epic adventure, ultimately fighting to save the alien world he has learned to call home. James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of Titanic, first conceived the film 15 years ago, when the technological means to realize his vision did not exist yet.

Now, after four years of production, Avatar delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story. A team of exceptional filmmakers under Cameron’s charge, including Producer Jon Landau, has brought Avatar to life — with help from Adobe technologies including Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium software.

“Certain software enables you to do your job,” says Landau. “Other software allows you to do your job better. Adobe has come up with a suite of software that allows us to do our jobs better.”