Bringing the world of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” to life was no easy task, but the team behind Netflix’s hit live-action adaptation was up to the challenge. The series is based on the beloved anime, but the world of animation offers up a bounty of choices in telling the story of individuals who can bend the elements to their will. Visualizing that for live-action was one of the new show’s first — and tallest — orders.
“In the anime, they give it color. So we leaned into the image of an F-22 engine, the heat distortion that it produces,” visual effects supervisor Marion Spates said in a new installment of TheWrap’s How I Did It, presented by Netflix.
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