"Over the course of three "Avatar" movies, Scott has crafted thousands of costumes for the completely fictional world of Pandora, rooting her designs in meticulous research (Cameron's mandate was that everything should be drawn from real-world influences) but then letting her imagination take flight to create a vivid, fully realized fantasy world."
"Although the "Avatar" films are shot using performance capture technology in which every physical detail is executed by visual effects artists after the live-action portion of production, Scott's department fabricated hundreds of costumes and accessories for "Fire and Ash" so that the digital artists would know how the clothes responded to movement and the elements."
""I have an incredible team of people who work for me and are just brilliant with their hands," Scott told IndieWire. "After I start designing on paper, the first thing I try to do is get into the workshop and start building samples, because that's where the cultures really come alive.""
Deborah L. Scott won an Academy Award for Titanic (1997) and received a second nomination for Avatar: Fire and Ash. Over three Avatar films, she crafted thousands of costumes for Pandora, grounding designs in meticulous real-world research per James Cameron's mandate while inventing fantastical elements. Performance-capture filming required her department to fabricate hundreds of physical costumes and accessories so visual-effects artists could study how fabrics respond to movement and elements. Scott begins designs on paper then builds workshop samples to bring cultures alive. For Fire and Ash she developed two new cultures—the Wind Traders and the Ash Clan—using costume details to convey history and lifestyle.
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