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11 Things You Didn't Know About Avatar
By Rakesh Kumar
December 23, 2020
Sound artists used real-life animal sounds for Pandora's beasts.
01
Every Na'vi costume was built in real life.
02
James Horner invented many of the instruments used in the movie's score.
03
Cars factored into Cameron's creature design.
04
Cameron used two different 3D camera rigs to shoot
Avatar
.
05
Visual-effects artists used a facial mold with holes in it to place the green dots on the actors' faces.
06
In the climactic banshee flight sequence, the choir is singing in Na'vi.
07
Na'vi was influenced by Amharic, Persian and Chinese, among other languages.
08
The futuristic weapons in
Avatar
were props, but just barely.
09
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