{"id":16151,"date":"2009-12-18T08:34:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T08:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/12\/see-how-photoshop-adobe-apps-helped-make-avatar.html"},"modified":"2009-12-18T08:34:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T08:34:17","slug":"see_how_photoshop_adobe_apps_helped_make_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/see_how_photoshop_adobe_apps_helped_make_a\/","title":{"rendered":"See how Photoshop &amp; Adobe apps helped make Avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Literally the first piece of software we went out and purchased was Photoshop&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nCheck out this 2-minute overview of how PS, Lightroom, After Effects, and other Adobe tools were used in the production of <em>Avatar<\/em>:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"256\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/images.tv.adobe.com\/swf\/player.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"fileID=4809&#038;context=9&#038;embeded=true&#038;environment=production\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/images.tv.adobe.com\/swf\/player.swf\" flashvars=\"fileID=4809&#038;context=9&#038;embeded=true&#038;environment=production\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"256\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nAdobe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0437604\/\">Mike Kanfer<\/a> won an Academy Award working with James Cameron on <em>Titanic<\/em> &amp; has been a great conduit of information during the making of <em>Avatar<\/em>.  Too bad I never did manage to twist his arm &amp; get behind the scenes during shooting&#8230;<br \/>\nAh well: this morning the Photoshop team is off to see Avatar&#8211;a welcome little break from the whole march to Cocoa.  I justified it to my wife, saying, &#8220;Well, they used Photoshop to make the movie.&#8221;  Raising a dubious, I-know-you&#8217;re-all-cutting-class eyebrow, she asked, &#8220;Don&#8217;t they use Photoshop to make <em>every<\/em> movie?&#8221;  Hush, woman!!<br \/>\n[Update: Evidently Photoshop co-creator John Knoll was the <em>Avatar<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0461306\/\">visual effects supervisor<\/a> at ILM.]<br \/>\n<em>Semi-related bonus fun thing: Slate talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/slatev.com\/player.html?id=57779681001\">Cameron nearly dying<\/a> while making <\/em>The Abyss<em>, punching &amp; then firing a rescue diver.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Literally the first piece of software we went out and purchased was Photoshop&#8230;&#8221; Check out this 2-minute overview of how PS, Lightroom, After Effects, and other Adobe tools were used in the production of Avatar: Adobe&#8217;s Mike Kanfer won an Academy Award working with James Cameron on Titanic &amp; has been a great conduit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}