What did the original Na'vi look like? | Avatar Explained

What the Na'vi/Avatars from Avatar (2009) and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) originally looked like Explained.
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[@sillyjellyfish2421]

To be fair, i really liked the proof of concept design and even the concept art with 4 hands. They were quite neat, but i suppose that there's no way to motion capture an extra pair of limbs that don't exist without them looking awkward compared to real ones, so i understand why that was scraped as well

[@spinfoilhat3087]

I'm no movie maker I just make VR avatars but from what I can tell from that it likely would just take separate mocap takes to get the arms down and tweaking the animations. Might also help to have a tie between one set of arms and the other so they mirror each other a bit more naturally. This movie was also made over a decade ago so there's no telling if they were actually capable of that at that time, i just wanted to toss my two cents out on this idea. Also I agree, I think my favorite design was the oooold ones where the na'vi look more like bioluminescent deep sea looking aliens.

[@Lance_Head]

If you can make a hexapedle animal you can make a humanoid with two arms with cgi

[@jimeatscorn6628]

The old designs aren't bad, to be honest.

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

True, especially for the time

[@shaddowpanther6947]

Liar güey! That junk ugly💀

[@user-mo4tu8gr8g]

Kinda is in my opinion

[@lonewolf9578]

Yeah, it’s mainly the quality of the CGI that drags it down

[@ZacharyBoi]

I hate when people lie

[@destinedgaming1527]

They took something that looked like it actually belonged in 2009, and changed it into something an entire decade past its time

[@samoerai6807]

What I was thinking

[@Blag_Cog]

At the time those 3D graphics were nothing to scoff at. The lighting, materials and the minutia of the facial animations (like how the lips move and has such detailed rendering) it was unlike anything else being done in the industry at that point in time.

[@thewitchstarot6975]

it was still bad lol

[@eniolaolu6862]

For the time even now that is still revolutionary level of cgi, avatar was really ahead of its time

[@rabbitadventurous9441]

I'm so glad they ended up with the design we have now.

[@Navi_Silver]

OG designs might have seemed a bit strange at first but they aren't bad nevertheless.

[@lonewolf9578]

It’s mainly the quality of the CGI that ruins it

[@gimcurang1640]

For basically just a prototype, the opd design is not bad at all, I believe it was really impressive for Century Fox to see it for the first time. It's just look bad if it compared to the new one.

[@2manyscars]

they were still so very pretyy

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Still low-key loved the design as well

[@Harrock]

How do navi poop ? Do they just shit in the bushes ?

[@aangmaster9392]

I mean..Nature is everyone's bathroom. They probably have some specific place somewhere else to poop tho

[@randomly_random_0]

They shit by hell's gate's fence

[@dac518]

@@randomly_random_0 hahah yes my friend

[@melhawk6284]

​@@randomly_random_0 personally, I would drop trou with them. Right by the gate!

[@nightowl7261]

I'm more interested in how they pee. It also seems they don't have sexual organs since they mate by having their long head tail connect.

[@Amias-Godrick]

I love how the original na'vi lady looked. Its so much more elegant

[@-_-Copycat-_-]

It maybe just me but I like the older design better

[@Hirotoro4692]

Older design looks like it's from a video game

[@Cutthecamerasdeadass1899]

Lol that we're like "uh, that's beautiful, here's 230mil bucks"

[@SakeJully1]

Although Worthington and Saldana were amazing as Jake and Ney, it would have been great if the actress from Lost and the guy who played Jake in the test footage had been cast in alternative roles in the final movie.

[@carrotface9090]

its called a test. that was never going to be the final version of it, but yeah, the purpose was to show what the end result would look like. we do this in animations all the time. its so that we dont waste the budget on something that can not be done. so first we test it to see if its even possible. at that time, avatar was an impossible project. it only ever was made into what it is today because cameron is such a perfectionist. which is also why (as ıve heard) many people didnt believed in him and his production and quit before the movie was finished. the first movie was made about in 6 to 10 years as well actually even much much longer.

[@Dontknowwhoiam-f5q]

Now I see how navi understand where is navi and where is devil. Because definitely Navi in original have more cat features, and avatar have more human

[@Yuuuuei]

they looked more cat-like

[@thewitchstarot6975]

Na'vi do remind me of cats

[@weronikawisniewska9483]

​@@thewitchstarot6975same

[@A3ONY]

back when Companies actually took leaps of faith for true artists instead of popping out the same sht over and over just cause that's what they think sells.

[@vorlux6354]

Im glad we didn't get the old designs

[@BryceEdwardBrown]

Same

[@pinkcrystal7250]

A part of me is amazed at the beauty of this movie, another part of me is deeply disappointed in humanity. So much money for a 2 hour movie that could've fed poor people and give thousands a home.

[@THECOOLANIMATOR945]

Imagine how i would look

[@Hyraladen]

Honestly have to say, Thank God that design didn't stay

[@Nyx_Moonz]

Lol I prefer the old neytiri over the current one-

[@Hirotoro4692]

Crazy

[@Hyraladen]

Ewwwwwww

[@TheCimbrianBull]

She looks very cat-like, though.

[@thejaguarsultima2655]

IT WAS HORRIFYING

[@JoeyMulvaney]

At the part of the video where he says "this is the most beautiful thing you and I have ever seen", the render happens to look like a ps3 render of my aunt. It's creepy, as it looks JUST like that hateful ass woman that's my mother's older sister

[@solarisjade2292]

To be fair, this isnt god awful, ive seen worse, and at the time, this is pretty damn good and obviously not the quality of the final movie, they knew that, hence the approval

[@hemayadav5568]

What if 20th century fox rejected his idea

[@obrikidivine7973]

10 million for that 💀not that it was bad but the fact that they needed more money

[@K3P13R-22B]

Idk what to say

[@DamzelNDistress]

Ok for 2005...thats not that bad

[@thechroniclegamer4285]

So…it isnt the original Design Its a Proof of Concept then

[@ДенисМакаев-щ4м]

Супер👍

[@HamiltonIsLife]

10 million for just proof??

[@lonewolf9578]

CGI was fairly new and expensive

[@richardlebeda6363]

Well.. From that moment, they used it and improve it :) So it was not like thrown into the trash after the proof. They did use it, make it better :)

[@kristalange6824]

That is bad.

[@TheGreenGorman]

Should not have cost that much what a f****** joke

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Definitely drawing inspiration from felines!

[@thewitchstarot6975]

Na'vi remind me of cats for some reason

[@JumboElephant13]

I know a better 2005 avatar 💧🪨🔥💨