Melbourne,
(ANI):
Hollywood
filmmaker
James
Cameron
thinks
that
his
mega
sci-fi
hit
movie
Avatar
would
have
been
a
box
office
disaster
if
it
was
live-action.
The
55-year-old
director
used
motion-capture
technology
for
most
of
the
scenes
in
the
sci-fi
epic.
Instead
of
coating
actor
Zoe
Saldana"s,
who
played
blue-skinned
alien
Neytiri
of
the
fictional
Na"vi
race,
skin
in
blue
make-up,
Cameron
made
him
and
all
the
other
alien
actors
wear
high-tech
motion
caption
suits
to
record
their
movements
and
turned
them
into
digital
animation.
The
cost
of
making
the
film
was
260
million
dollars.
“Here"s
the
thing:
if
it
had
been
in
live
action,
she
would
have
been
in
blue
make-up
and
it
would
not
have
had
the
power.
Her
eyes
would
not
have
been
those
eyes," The
Age
quoted
Cameron
as
saying.
“The
blue
make-up
would
have
looked
terrible.
I
know
–
every
time
I
go
to
a
convention
where
someone
decides
they"re
going
to
be
a
Na"vi,
I"m
reminded
why
we
didn"t
do
it," he
added.
Fellow
director
Steven
Spielberg
is
also
glad
that
Cameron
didn"t
go
for
a
more
natural
look.
Spielberg
said
he
loved
Avatar,
but
thinks
the
actors
would
have
looked
terrible
if
Cameron
had
used
cosmetics
instead
of
animation.
“You
get
that
on
TV:
The
Blue
Man
Group.
It"s
spray
paint,
it"s
not
organic.
It"s
Ben
Stiller
at
the
Oscars.
That"s
about
as
good
as
it
gets," Spielberg
told
Empire
magazine.