Although the film is almost three hours long, Avatar does not pass the "Bechdel test" which requires that two named female characters must talk about something other than a male character. Although he is expected to lead the diplomatic contact with the Na'vi, it turns out that Jake has the personality better suited to win the natives' respect. The film has also made people feel more misanthropic and lose faith in humanity like Jake Sully does. Stan Winston, who had collaborated with Cameron in the past, joined Avatar to help with the film's designs.

On the contrary, because there is no need for repeated camera and lighting setups, costume fittings and make-up touch-ups, scenes do not need to be interrupted repeatedly.Reporting back to Quaritch, the Colonel wants Jake to begin his plan to convince the clan to leave the Hometree, but Jake is now reluctant and wary of the RDA's desire to exploit the moon's resources. Parker stresses that the RDA needs to mine the extremely valuable mineral unobtanium, which can be found in huge deposits on Pandora. Motion-capture photography lasted 31days at the Hughes Aircraft stage in Playa Vista in Los Angeles. Having earned back the clan's trust, Jake makes plans to join with other clans to strike back at the human forces.

The story would be of an entire world complete with an ecosystem of phantasmagorical plants and creatures, and native people with a rich culture and language. Jake and Neytiri have Na'vi children in the sequel too, including Jamie Flatters's Neteyam, Britain Dalton's Lo'ak and Trinity Bliss's Tuktirey. He decided to concentrate on making documentaries and refining the technology for the next few years.

Praise was directed to the film's worldbuilding, graphics and visuals, art design, music, dream-like qualities, as well as its environmental and spiritual themes about living harmoniously with nature and the connectivity of life. HarperFestival also released Wilhelm's 48-page James Cameron's Avatar: The Reusable Scrapbook for children. After Fox accepted Avatar, one skeptical Fox executive shook his head and told Cameron and Landau, "I don't know if we're crazier for letting you do this, or if you're crazier for thinking you can do this.

However, Quaritch kills the thanator with his AMP and is about to kill Neytiri when Jake arrives to challenge him.

The director planned to make use of photorealistic computer-generated characters, created using new motion capture animation technologies he had been developing in the 14 months leading up to December 2006. Fiercely consistent in his disregard for any life not recognized as human, he has a profound disregard for Pandora's inhabitants that is evident in both his actions and his language. The anime film Princess Mononoke also partially inspired life on Pandora, and contains elements of "man versus nature".