6 Avatar Clips Debut Online! Plus Pandorapedia Site Opens, & 4 b-roll vids!

Michael here with 6 new clips and 4 b-roll vids from Avatar and the online debut of the Pandorapedia.

Some of the below clips are longer versions of previously seen footage, but they all contain new material. Also, barring an unforeseen incident, I'll be seeing Avatar tomorrow at 7:oo pm in Hollywood. To say I can't wait is an understatement...I'm salivating for this.

Here are the clips:


1. "You're not in Kansas anymore"

2. "This is your avatar now, Jake"

3. "How much have you logged?"

4. "When you are ready"

5. "The language is a pain"

6. "You should see your faces"

Also check out these b-rolls:











Thanks to Buzz for the heads up!

Avatar Images from "Pandorapedia" iPhone App!

Second UPDATE 10/13/09: Michael here. I received the following from someone working on Avatar's marketing:

The pictures are early concept arts of PandoraPedia and don't show the final product. Flickr is a simple solution as a presentation platform. We will delete the pictures soon. The content in the pictures is from Fox and Weta Digital but don't show final material too. PandoraPedia on flickr.com is not part of the marketing. Fox will present the complete world of Pandora and PandoraPedia with the release of Avatar: The Game.

UPDATE 10/13/09: Michael here. A trusted source tells us that these images are mockups:

Just saw your latest post. I think the iphone images are only beta mockups -- the body text is random and bears no relationship to the heading text. The ze'bu creature looks like one of ours, but I don't know if the Na'vi name is valid. The banshee creature also looks good, but the Na'vi name is not the one shown. The parts of the 17 images are all cross-linked, rather than showing new small images. The whole thing looks like a mockup to me.

He also tells us the following regarding Pandora's six-limbed creatures:

Just read the post about the latest "Avatar" footage screening. The animal's double front legs don't move exactly the same way. There is a reason (classified) why the animals have 6 limbs and the Na'vi have 4. And if you look closely at the "lemur", its upper arms are single, they only split into two for the lower arms. There is a reason for this too. JC has a reason for everything in "Avatar."

**SAME DAY UPDATE: Michael here. Fox has requested that I remove the images and link.***

Michael here. Thanks to Ronnick for pointing out this Flickr account that contains images that appear to be from the Pandorapedia.

We get our first look at the birdlike Ze'Bu creature, some new concept art showing off Pandoran wetlands, and more courtesy of screenshots of a Pandorapedia iPhone App with a 3D navigational matrix interface.

I can't wait to replace the Earth on my iPhone screen with Pandora, and to really start digging into the world Cameron has created. I am continually impressed by the creativity and talent that is being poured into everything Avatar related. This iPhone App looks to be superbly designed, and of course the Pandorapedia itself is a mammoth undertaking that when released will prove to be an awesome resource for both Avatar fans and those working on Avatar tie-in projects such as games and books.

The App does not seem to be available for download yet, but keep your eyes peeled.

Cameron Announces "Pandorapedia" + Confirms Movie Footage this Summer?

Michael here.  Thanks to reader Ronnick for pointing me to the following Gametrailers.com video, which contains two slices of interview with James Cameron.

The first piece of the interview starts at the 16:00 mark, and the second piece starts at 19:07

One interesting piece of news from this interview is the announcement that Ubisoft came up with an idea of a "Pandorapedia" which Cameron describes as "a way of educating the people about the world and all the life in it - just as a kind of entry to the game."

Incidentally, be sure to keep checking www.pandorapedia.com.  It currently redirects to foxmovies.com, but add it to your list of websites to keep an eye on.

At the end of the interview, the GTTV guy asks, hopefully, "I guess this summer we'll see some footage of this...."

Cameron says, "there you go!"

The interviewer continues, "and some footage of the film as well?", to which Cameron chuckles and says, "Alright, yeah."

He then says something that I can't quite make out.  Anyone?