I’ve dabbled in animation and computer graphics a bit. However never in anything near the scale of Avatar 2.

I watched it in IMAX 3D high frame rate and it was absolutely stunning. But I could see just about every detail. To be clear. None of these were blatant or bad. They did a fantastic job. BUT there were a few shots that gave me a feeling they changed the editing significantly at the end, or didn’t have enough time to render, or were handled by a different VFX house….

I am curious if anyone feels the same.

A few things I noticed. It was only ever short shots:

• Scenes with significantly slower frame rate. Like under 24fps for no reason I know of
• Water refractions just being much less clear/resolved. Could’ve used some more iterations.
• Animation feeling just significantly less real. Like it was missing a simulation step.
• Don’t know how to explain this but the scene just had less detail/less clarity.
• Textures that felt flat. Especially fabrics. There was a fabric on top of a boat that I swear might have just been a simple polygon even though it was right behind the characters.

I would have to watch it again to put words to what else I thought