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This 2009 science fiction film was directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron. In 1994 the idea of the film developed when he started writing for it, there had been plans for filming of this to take place in 1997 but Cameron decided that the technology needed was not yet available and therefore his vision of what the film was going to be, could not yet be created. This movie was one of the most groundbreaking animations I had seen. Through out its production there were different techniques used in order to achieve its high level. The use of motion capture allowed the actors' facial features to be held onto through out the editing process. A Virtual Camera System which was a new way of filming motion capture was used, this allowed the Directors to look through the camera and see the actors in real time, but in their digital surroundings. This enabled them to get a much better idea of what was being achieved and allowed them to play with the environment and move it about.

This use of motion capture is very much the same as the way Gollum was filmed for The Lord of The Rings in the early 2000's. This technique was so huge for its time, so its amazing to see how it has developed in just a small number of years. Its so effective because we don't loose the individual facial features of each actor, which enables each character to stay just as individual and each to their own as they would with just live action alone.