Merry Christmas everyone! (Still Christmas eve for others)
A few days ago I washed the newest Avatar movie, and of course I enjoyed it lots.
So here’s my favorite scene featuring my favorite creature from the franchise.
Avatar - The Great Leonopteryx, the Toruk
The return of the boy, my favorite beastie, the Toruk!
Something to celebrate the new trailer!
HE’S BACK, THE TORUK IS BACK!
The new trailer just released and I’m just… SO overwhelmed.
Mostly because my favorite critter is back, he’s here!
Commission - Colonel Quaritch vs Yautja
Got commissioned by a good friend to do a fun piece of art!
It’s Colonel Quaritch from James Cameron’s Avatar vs a Yautja from, of course, Predator!
Holy molee! This IS like a Darkhorse comic come to life in the best ways! The worldbuilding! YAUTJA CONLANG BY THE GUY WHO MADE THE NA'VI LANGUAGE! AAAAAAAAAA!
It’s great to see the Aliens franchise get its time to shine!
It’s been a long and tumultous road for 20th Century post buyout, but I’m glad to see the studio find its footing once more.
It’s great to see all the big tentpole science fiction franchises of 20th Century Studios be critical and commercial successes.
Avatar 2: Electric Boogaloo, or “Why You Shouldn’t Take the Internet’s Opinion Too Seriously at Times”
Twas the year 2022, in the Month of May, when the first teaser for The Blue People Movie™ was released… everyone on this blasted device called the internet, from Tumblr, Twitter to Reddit though it was going to fail.
Now look where it is. $2.243 billion dollars later. For all the talk of “Cultural Impact”, plain and simple, you don’t get people to keep coming back to the theaters for a movie with a gap of 13 years from the first if people didn’t care about it.
…Legit the only place that had faith in the movie was effing r/boxoffice. A subreddit. Another, much bigger subreddit in r/movies was basically betting on this film to fail, and when it didn’t it kept deleting posts about its box office success until recently with the exact same news as above.
And that $2.243 billion? Mostly from international audiences. Heck even my country of Indonesia made it to the top 20 markets for this film, with Europe (France and Germany specifically), India, China and Korea being the other, bigger markets.
As a guy in the animation industry, whenever I see a lot of my own community and even overseas colleagues either bashing or in disbelief of the film’s success I kinda die inside, because it really feels as if though I’m being a traitor to my own professional community for enjoying the movie wholly and unironically.
It took a while, but I finally accepted the ability to say “that’s fine, so what?”.
What can I say? I like realism, and I like realistic animation! I like how its implemented in the movie.
I like exploring speculative worlds from a biological perspective as well as worldbuilding.
I love science fiction critters, and Avatar always delivers.
It’s a movie made for me, as some dude from Indonesia who helps storyboards projects.
So if you’re a fan of the Blue People Movie™, don’t feel ashamed. If you’re inspired by this, but also take the criticisms of certain communities to account to improve on your work? Go for it!
Even Jimmy Camera I think learned his lesson (which is hard for me to fathom because… it’s James Cameron. His ego is pretty (in)famous), as he asked for consultation from the Maori community for their opinions on how to write the Metkayina.
Remember, next time the internet (especially twitter) thinks something is going to flop™, but you think it might be good and/or successful! Go for it! What’s most important is what you think, and make your own conclusions about it.
Made a Pandoran analogue to a Tyrannosaurus rex. Its human name is Kratodrakon, meaning “Dragon of Strength”. Its Na’vi name meanwhile is Taronyutxur, meaning “Hunter of the Strong”.
The Toruk flies past the Tomcat.
So officially, Avatar is going to pass Top Gun, and according to some reports, already has.
Congrats to the cast and crew, whom the ENTIRE internet seemed ot have thought this was gonna flop.
Praise Be Science Fiction!
Avatar: The Way of Water has reached One Billion!
Apologies if I’m going to sound a bit obnoxious, but in perhaps the greatest show of disconnect between what’s popular online vs. the real world, the film SO many brushed off as no one caring anymore is the FASTEST to reach one billion this year, in just 12 days, tying No Way Home as the fastest to hit that mark this decade.
As a fan of sci fi stuff in general, to see Prey do so well critically, and Avatar financially, this year has been a MUCH need win for 20th Century Studios as a whole.
So here, have the Feral Predator congratulation his fellow movie co-worker, Jake Sully. Also, remember, the Na’Vi are tall! They are approx. Two ft. taller than the average Yautja!