The animals of Avatar
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- čas přidán 13. 12. 2023
- Love it or hate, Avatar has some of the most photogenic environments ever show in an alien world. So let's dive in for a look at their ecology and relationships with the na'vi!
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Despite being completely different worlds, Monster Hunter and Avatar share 1 thing in common:
I absolutely love the unique designs of all the creatures in this world, pretty much the main reason why I love this series and franchise
This is what I pay attention to when I watch these movies, the extraterrestrial Wildlife.
Wish more films would incorporate strong spec-evo in their creature designs, Pandora has always been breathtaking for me and I'd watch the movie just to see the animals in motion.
The new Avatar game elaborates even further on other unseen species, which I love! The plains creatures especially have been interesting, with their features having evolved to make use of the intense and constant winds of the plains. Like the Soundblast, a massive herbivore that uses it's segmented sail to essentially create sonic booms with the wind; and the wind panthers, a carnivore with skin flaps that let it make short glides using the wind. There's also the addition of a new flying predator, the Stormwing, that seems to fill a niche between ikran and Toruk. It's intensely territorial and has a stinger on its tail that it attacks with. The Aranahe, a Na'vi clan of weavers, also has a special relationship with a new type of moth call the Kinglor, where they care for the Kinglor and weave silk from the cocoons.
The thing is UC, the difference in your assessments of ecosystems and creatures in fiction is that your very educated and scientifically minded. Unlike other channels you actually go into great detail and logical speculation. Which is why your perspective and video's are particularly valuable. It doesn't really matter if another channel covered a topic you wanted to, because you'll always have something new or different to say.
Avatar despite their massive success feels surprisingly underrated, it's a genuinely good pair of movies.
Since we're now started covering sci-fi alien ecology, I think Subnautica would be a great next choice!
Honestly my problem with Avatar is that the Na'vi don't really look like aliens from Pandora (only two eyes, four limbs, a nose instead of the holes in the body to breathe ) I know it was made to make them more human although it looks like a contradiction but overall the designers deserve a award
We need more speculative zoology movies like avatar
I know some people dislike avatar for its lacklustre plot and characters. But one thing i do like is the designs of the creatures, they feel really well realised and are very unique with their hexapod designs and four eyes.
I don't know why it's so popular to hate Avatar currently, but I could never do that because this franchise has been the awakening for my love for speculative biology. The world of Avatar is breathtaking in more ways than just the visuals.
Man, I always forget how much effort the pandoran wildlife has put into it. Truly some great designs, even if I feel relatively apathetic to avatar (not to say they're bad films)
The thing I like most about the Pandora creatures is that you can tell it’s a Pandora creature. They all have that queue, don’t matter what creature it is land air or sea they all have it.
Your upload schedule somehow always hits, excited to watch this episode of UHC
Amazing video!
Even though I had completely forgotten the entire plot of Avatar and Way of Water, what will always stick out in my mind was the amazing environments and creature designs they made.
These sorts of videos are really helpful for me when building my own spec evo project. Learning about animal behavior and distribution.
Really interesting stuff that humans and marine mammals have worked together to hunt before. Never heard of that.
Another great video for sure! It's been a long time since I've seen the first Avatar movie, and this was a great refresher. I love how all of the land animals are hexapods :).