AVATAR land - the specifics

[sshindel]

Are you referring to another piece of artwork, because both the images are scale models. Late stage WDI models like this are definitely built with accurate scaling. Martin mentioned somewhere around here, a budget reduction to 200-300 million, and this could be an effect of that (smaller mountains).

I'm referring to the concept art in your first picture. Concept art is not always to scale, as artists take slight liberties. I'm not saying that it has not happened, that they have not decided to scale down the mountain range. I just don't think we can infer anything directly from concept art.

 

[SDisney90]

Anyone else suffer from chills watching this?? Now, don't get me wrong I enjoyed Avatar but, not the fact of it joining WDW. Now I'm sort of having second thoughts..can't wait.

 

[kap91]

How do you come to that conclusion? The scale looks about the same to me. It's just from a different angle.

I was going to say the same thing, they don't really look smaller - just a different shape. Instead of one big rock it's a chain of rocks. More rocks are levitating in the new pic.

 

[RandySavage]

How do you come to that conclusion? The scale looks about the same to me. It's just from a different angle.

Look at the figurines in each image.

 

[danlb_2000]

If this new model shot (front view floating mountain):

represents the same feature as this older one (rear view):
http://www./wp-content/uploads/2013/10/IMG_2231.jpeg

Then it would seem the floating mountains have shrunk considerably, judging by the human figurines.

That is assuming that these two pictures are showing the same thing. There very well could be multiple floating mountains.

 

[twebber55]

I was going to say the same thing, they don't really look smaller - just a different shape. Instead of one big rock it's a chain of rocks. More rocks are levitating in the new pic.

I actually think this looks better if it indeed is the direction they re going
looks more so like they are floating

 

[danlb_2000]

If this new model shot (front view floating mountain):

represents the same feature as this older one (rear view):
http://www./wp-content/uploads/2013/10/IMG_2231.jpeg

Then it would seem the floating mountains have shrunk considerably, judging by the human figurines.

That is assuming that these two pictures are showing the same thing. There very well could be multiple floating mountains.

 

[kap91]

That is assuming that these two pictures are showing the same thing. There very well could be multiple floating mountains.

That would blow people's socks off.

 

[Mike S]

I was going to say the same thing, they don't really look smaller - just a different shape. Instead of one big rock it's a chain of rocks. More rocks are levitating in the new pic.

Looking at it now it looks like they're the same formation just a rotated view from the older pic of everyone with the model. The scale could be smaller looking at the figures but it looks like the same rocks.

 

[chiefs11]

I think the new art is depicting the same thing, just from the front instead of the side.

 

[SDisney90]

I actually think this looks better if it indeed is the direction they re going

Have to agree with you in this, feels a lot more "welcoming" into the new land for sure and I bet it'll look a heck of a lot bigger regardless of the "scale"difference. I'd rather approach the second concept art rather than a cluster or tall floating rocks as we've previously seen.

 

[RayTheFirefly]

Look at the figurines in each image.

Those weird pale blue figurines in the drawn concept art could be Na'vi sized. If you look at the sizes of the trees next to the people, the scale doesn't really make sense in the drawn one. but the proportions of the mountains to the trees look the same to me.

And as someone else said, concept art is rarely drawn exactly to scale with plans. It's more of an artistic license rather than an engineered rendering.

 

[twebber55]

this also looks like a center piece of the land that will be in front of the 2 rides

 

[RayTheFirefly]

Have to agree with you in this, feels a lot more "welcoming" into the new land for sure and I bet it'll look a heck of a lot bigger regardless of the "scale"difference. I'd rather approach the second concept art rather than a cluster or tall floating rocks as we've previously seen.

I believe it's the same formation. It just looks like a tighter, taller cluster in the model because of the angle in which the picture's taken, which makes them all line up and blend together.

 

[sshindel]

Can I just comment on the lushness that is shown in that picture? I mean, it's crazy, look at all the green, the waterfalls, the vines. IMO, this shows one reason why DAK is going to be a good fit for Pandora.

 

[RayTheFirefly]

Also, now that I'm looking at a bigger version of the model, does anyone else see what looks like boats in the water in the back left (well, more like the middle)? What could that be?

 

[twebber55]

crazy thought are we sure this is concept art and not some type of model?

 

[kap91]

crazy thought are we sure this is concept art and not some type of model?

It looks more like a late phase elevation type sketch to me rather than true concept art.

 

[RandySavage]

To clear up a bit of confusion. Today's piece I posted just above is not "concept art". It is a photograph of a physical scale model (with a sky painting behind it). The little blue guys are plastic figurines placed on a model to help show scale to viewers.

 

[lobelia]

I definitely saw water falls from the floating rocks as well as a water fall on the right of the bridge. There also seems to be a person investigating a plant a little to the right of the beaten path. I don't see the human structures like old vehicles and mess halls.