eli5: What makes the CGI in Avatar stand out?

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To me it just looks like every other movie, what details does it have that other movies don’t?

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With the setting being on an alien planet whose outside atmosphere is toxic to humans, and many of the characters being aliens, there are very long stretches of video that you couldn’t film with a camera if you wanted to. It’s 100% computer generated graphics from no real world scene and with the only human element being motion capture of some actors.

If you can’t see humans in the scene, chances are it’s entirely a computer generated image, as opposed to something with green screens, characters in costumes, and effects added. There’s nothing “added” per se, it’s built from nothing.

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