Director James Cameron and cinematographer Russell Carpenter talk about the difficulties filming humans with Na’vi.

Over a decade separates the releases between the first film and Avatar: The Way of Water.

But director James Cameron wasn’t just dilly dallying away behind the scenes.

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And so we worked really, really hard."

Cameron followed this up elaborating about how Champion did motion capture for Spider first before filming scenes as himself.

And he was like 13 at the time.

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Russ would just fool around with that."

Needless to say, it’s no wonder the cinematographer referred to it all as “painstakingly difficult.”

Looking ahead, Cameron has already mentioned thatLo’ak will be the narrator for the untitled Avatar 3.

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For more, be sure to check out GameSpot’sAvatar: The Way of Water review.

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