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Through 2019 and 2020 Enya and I sailed many miles up and down the Essex and Suffolk coast, across the Thames Estuary to Ramsgate, where only a change in the weather prevented a pre-COVID crossing to Boulogne. We’ve been through the Swale and around the Isle of Sheppey and across the Buxey Sands via the Ray Sand Channel to explore the river Crouch. This capable little boat will take me anywhere provided I do my bit, keep her well maintained and sail prudently. Pupils could work in groups to create their own planets – each planet having a different setting and characters – these characters could then interact with each other. Several animals, including reptiles, rabbits, mice and birds, were removed from the premises during the visit, though Mr Hemingway challenged the ruling, and denied any claims of animal mistreatment. The aquarium is now open and trading again.

Pupils could write narratives set on any of the planets describing how they survive there and escape (if needed) The film—although "film" seems to be an anachronistic term for such a digitally intense production—takes place on a moon called Pandora, which circles a distant planet. Jake Sully, a former Marine paralyzed from the waist down during battle on Earth, has traveled to this lush, green world teeming with exotic, bioluminescent life to take part in the military's Avatar program. The human settlers are interested in mining Pandora's resources but can't breathe its toxic atmosphere, so to help explore the moon and meet with the native Na'vi who live there, Sully has his consciousness linked with a genetically engineered 9-foot-tall human–alien hybrid. After making the photographs, Meiselas set aside the project, then eventually published it as a book five years later. The photographer had also considered documenting the mistresses’ lives outside of the club or venturing deeper into the subculture of which they were part but ultimately decided against it. “There is a subtle process here: you allow yourself to immerse and then you have to pull out. Knowing when to get out takes judgment and I think it is intuitive,” she reflects in Susan Meiselas: On the Frontline. Today, however, the series continues to exist as a powerful representation of the complexities of a hidden world and the people participating in it. The Cosmopolitan Influencer Awards with PANDORA will take place at brand new venue, Wild by Tart and is a unique celebration of the biggest, best, new and up-and-coming talent.

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The information from the cameras produced a digital framework, or rig, of an actor's face. The rig was then given a set of rules that applied the muscle movements of each actor's face to that of the Avatar or the Na'vi that he or she was playing. To make a CG character express the same emotion as a human actor, the rig had to translate every arch of a human eyebrow directly to the digital character's face.

Claire said: “The spirit of Cosmopolitan is embodied by uplifting, empowering and championing young women everywhere, spotlighting new talent and creating a sense of community. The Influencer Awards provide the perfect platform to celebrate those who have worked tirelessly to change the game within their industry. We are delighted to once again have PANDORA onboard as headline partner, and it will be an honour to present these awards at our glittering event later this month.” But it turns out there is no magic formula that can supplant hard work and lots of trial and error. After Cameron complained about the uncanny-valley effect, Weta spent another year perfecting the rig on Worthington's Avatar by tweaking the algorithms that guided its movements and expressions until he came alive enough to meet Cameron's sky-high standards. "It was torturous," Letteri admits. But when Weta was finished, you could pour the motion-capture data into the rig and it would come out the other side right. Left: new port side trunnion plate fitted. The ‘gunk’ is linseed oil putty. Right top and bottom: keel uphaul skin fitting. Notice the groove worn into the formerly round hole In fact, Cameron doesn't even like the term "motion capture" for the process used on Avatar. He prefers to call it "performance capture." This may seem like semantics, but to Cameron, the subtle facial expressions that define an actor's performance had been lost for many of the digital characters that have come before. In those films, the process of motion capture served only as a starting point for animators, who would finish the job with digital brush strokes. "Gollum's face was entirely animated by hand," says Weta Digital effects master Joe Letteri. "King Kong was a third or so straight performance capture. It was never automatic." This time, Cameron wanted to keep the embellishment by animators to a minimum and let the actors drive their own performances.Cameron wrote his first treatment for the movie in 1995 with the intention of pushing the boundaries of what was possible with cinematic digital effects. In his view, making Avatar would require blending live-action sequences and digitally captured performances in a three-dimensional, computer-generated world. Part action–adventure, part interstellar love story, the project was so ambitious that it took 10 more years before Cameron felt cinema technology had advanced to the point where Avatar was even possible. At Biphoria, we believe that everyone has the right to be themselves and to express their true identities. We strive to create a safe and welcoming space where everyone can be their authentic selves and connect with others who share similar experiences and identities. Filmmakers, especially those with a technical bent, admire Cameron for "his willingness to incorporate new technologies in his films without waiting for them to be perfected," says Bruce Davis, the executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It adds to the risky nature of Cameron's projects, but his storytelling has reaped enormous benefits. There's a term in Hollywood for Cameron's style of directing, Davis says: "They call this 'building the parachute on the way down.'"