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...yelled from an apparently empty warehouse floor to a small crew huddled over computer monitors in a corner. "Oh, oh, oh, I'm in the monster's head!" Cameron backed up, and a peek through his camera lens revealed blackness giving way to a thick and vivid rain forest where a tall, blue, alien version of Sigourney Weaver was battling the monster whose head had just blocked the director's view. On the warehouse floor there was no rain forest, no monster, no Weaver - just a bunch of guys and their computers. But Cameron's camera was allowing...
...Avatar were spent not on a stage but in a dark viewing room in Los Angeles, in teleconferences with collaborating artists from Peter Jackson's Weta Digital studio in Wellington, New Zealand. The real world was being used to inform the fictional one: an energy map of the Pandoran forest was modeled on rat neurons; hours were spent getting alien sap to drip precisely right. (See the 10 worst video game movies...
...exhibit, entitled “New England Forests: The Zofnass Family Gallery,” is set to open in the spring of 2011. It seeks to make visitors feel as though they are actually walking on a curvy path through the forest, Hanken said...
...Zofnass ’69 has made a $500,000 donation to the Harvard Museum of Natural History—the largest gift the Museum has received since its inception in 1998—for a new exhibit depicting the interactions that take place in a New England forest ecosystem...
Zofnass said he has fond memories of growing up in Belmont, Mass. and walking through the forest on his route to and from middle school. He said he hopes that this new exhibit will also have a lasting impact on young visitors...