Creation of some of the Floating mountains to later also be used in DMP.
Sometimes you get to do almost full shots, i did all models and sculpts except Neytiri. Even got to concept the purple plants.
A closer look at plant sculpting from back in the day.
Thirsty
Got to do trees and tendrils on these shots along with a lot of other jungle elements on the ground and in the water.
McLovin
R&D on burnt jungle How do ferns animate when burning, created a custom rig for curling of leafs and the full fern and passed that on to FX to disintegrate the plants as the burn. Also did environment and forest sculpting.
BG sculpting and rock 1006 crashing.
just so much.
Ground foliage
Tree sculpting among other things.
Log sculpting.
Destruction modeling of the Ship.
Ground elements.
OG AVATAR - I was lucky enough to get to work on the original for almost 2 years from 2008, doing Jungle, mechanical, even some small creature work. Many hours with good friends. learning a lot(but not fast enough). There's almost not a single shot of the jungle that doesn't have a few of my things in it. But here's a few favorites from so long ago.