What we're interested in with performance capture is the totality of the performance.

我們對「演出捕捉技術」的興趣在於它能捕捉表演的全部。

Physical, emotional, facial, the eyes, everything.

動作、情感、臉部表情、眼神、一切。

The actor creates the emotion; the actor creates the moment.

演員創造了那份情感，演員創造了那一瞬間。

It's our job to make sure that everything the actor did is preserved in their CG character.

我們的職責是確保演員所有的表演能保留在電腦合成角色中。

You are very hard on them.

你對他們非常苛刻。

I'm the father, it's my job.

我身為父親，這是我的責任。

Everything that Jake Sully as a Na'vi does, Sam has done.

傑克·蘇里以納美人的身體所做的一切，都是山姆演出來的。

I thought we lost them.

我以為我們失去他們了。

You can capture the emotion, you can capture the subtleties, the nuances of the movements.

你可以捕捉到情感，你可以捕捉到舉手投足之間的細膩、細微之處。

You can capture the eye and capture the ticks, everything, capture it all.

你可以捕捉眼神，捕捉那一霎那，捕捉一切。

I'll be nice once then I won't.

我會對你友善一次，之後就不會了。

The moment I saw her for the first time, I was just like you're just so beautiful.

我最初看到她的那一瞬間，我心想你真美麗。

Blue has never looked more beautiful.

從未見過如此美麗的藍色。

This is not a squad. It is a family.

我們不是一支小隊，是一個家庭。

The amazing thing is that the technology gives me that portal to bring my 14-year-old self to play this girl.

奇妙的地方在於這項技術讓我能召喚 14 歲的自己去扮演這個女孩。

Avatars only. Go around.

僅限阿凡達。走開。

In making a movie set on Pandora...

以潘多拉星球作為背景拍攝時⋯⋯

Pandora doesn't exist. Avatars don't exist at nine ft tall.

潘多拉星球並不存在。九呎高的阿凡達也不存在。

We have actors working in a volume with markers on their body, facial head rigs on their head and we capture 100% of their performance in the digital world.

我們讓演員在室內架設的攝影棚拍戲，身上貼滿標記、頭戴表情捕捉裝置，在數位世界中捕捉他們百分之百的表演。

At the beginning of the day, the first thing we do is get into the performance capture suit and that is a skin-tight two-piece and it's totally filled with ping-pong-like bulls around us,

每天開工第一件要做的事是穿上動態捕捉裝，那是兩件式的緊身衣，佈滿類似乒乓球的小球體，

so they can then track my arm and then translate that into the virtual world.

用來捕捉我的動作並轉化成虛擬的內容。

They have all these little cameras that send these little rays which gives an image of you moving around, so every little movement is your movement.

他們有大量小鏡頭他們有大量小鏡頭發送雷射光束在演員移動時掃描影像，所有細微的動作都可以捕捉到。

And then we put a head rig on and it's a helmet and it has a camera that's right in front of your face.

還有個頭戴式裝置，是一個頭盔妝，上面有鏡頭拍攝演員的臉。

One of the big advances that we've made technologically on the sequels is the facial performance capture.

在拍攝這些續集時其中一個很進步的技術是表情的捕捉。

We're capturing a much higher fidelity of performance.

我們捕捉到的是更真實還原的演出。

But I know one thing. This family is our fortress.

但我知道一件事，這個家庭是我們的堡壘。

I've done a lot of green screen, I've done a lot of blue screen but never anything of course like this where there really is no screen. You're just acting in a space.

我拍過很多綠幕戲，也拍過很多藍幕戲，但是從未試過這種拍攝手法，連背景都沒有。純粹是在一個空間演出。

Now you must stand with us.

現在你要和我們站在同一陣線。

I've always thought that being in the volume is about playing an imagination and there is no kind of fear or no shame.

我一直都覺得在室內攝影棚演戲要發揮想像力，不能害怕或怕出糗。

You can do whatever you need to do to get to that truth.

為求逼真，該做什麼就去做。

Saving their lives. That's all that matters.

拯救他們的生命。這是最重要的。

I have had to work completely differently than I ever have before and it's been an amazing experience to go back in time.

這次的拍攝我必須用上跟以往完全不同的作法，可以時光倒流是個很棒的體驗。

Why am I different?

為什麼我跟別人不同？

It is just remarkable to be able to see the movements and the performance go straight into the character. It's like, there's Kate and there's Ronal.

能夠看到演員的動作和表演直接融入到電腦合成角色中，真的很了不起。就像，這是凱特，下一秒就變成洛納。

So that has been fascinating to me.

這對我來說是很神奇的。

What is this? Tonowari. What is this?

這是怎麼什麼事？東諾瓦力。這是怎麼什麼事？

I find as a director, I'm much more attuned to the actors 'cause that's all I have to worry about.

身為導演，我發現這次害演員變得更熟悉，因為我只要顧慮他們就好。

I'm not distracted by the camera move or the extras in the background, I'm just there for them.

我不會因為移動中的攝影機或臨演而分心，我只專注於他們。

That's all I care about.

他們才是我關心的。

That's all I'm watching.

才是我看重的。

It's an amazing process.

這個過程很奇妙。

It's also the only way to do it.

是唯一能做到的方法。

It's the only way to make this film.

是唯一能拍攝出這部片的作法。