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I cannot believe this happened to Robert Pattinson on the set of Twilight

I’M SCREAMING

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The “early VFX test” leaks for the live-action ATLA series have been confirmed. They were real, but not scenes from the actual show. Here’s what this being true means for the series.

Earlier this week, some purported leaks from the upcoming live-action ATLA Netflix series made a whirlwind tour of the internet, including racking up over a million views on YouTube, before being taken down almost everywhere. (The copies of the leaks here on korranews have also been taken down at the request of the producer.)

The whole time it was unclear whether they were “real” or not– well, they were real in that they were real photos of a real production, but it was unknown if that production was actually ATLA as the leaker claimed, or simply something that looked like it.

Korranews has spoken with the producer of the test and received clarification on exactly what was being filmed, as well as how Netflix has gotten involved since the leaks to protect the series.

The leaks were real. They were actually not of a VFX test, but a virtual production test by a VFX company, and the purpose of the test was essentially an audition to do virtual production/VFX for the real series. (We’ll get to what virtual production is at the end of the post). The test was not affiliated with Netflix or the series– they made up their own scenes to film.

The costuming, casting, and plot/script were not from the actual show in any way.

Most of the controversy about these leaks has been the Sokka/Katara scene, in which she waterbends when they’re attacked by “marauders” and they’re both shocked by it, with Sokka exclaiming “you’re a waterbender!”. Katara not knowing she was a waterbender would be a huge change from the original series, in which her mother died to protect her years ago because Katara was a waterbender, a major part of her character.

These scenes are not from the live-action series and as far as we know they’re not changing Katara’s history. Again, the scene was made up by the VFX company for the test, it didn’t come from the upcoming Netflix series.

Netflix is getting stories about the leaks that misrepresent the show taken down.

This is maybe the most interesting part. Netflix has actively gotten involved to stop the misinformation, truth-stretching, and jumping to conclusions surrounding these leaks.

Even though the Netflix series wasn’t involved in the VFX test, the leaks spread far and wide and started taking on a life of their own. Most big stories about them misrepresented them as actual scenes from episode 1 of the actual show. This misinformation harms the show, so it makes sense that they’d want to put a stop to it.

It’s actually a really good thing that Netflix recognized this as harmful and took action to stop it. It means they’re taking the series seriously, and aren’t going to make fundamental mistakes/changes like the one in the fake Sokka/Katara scene that caused so much controversy.

Since the leaks are real, that means the rumors the leaker heard on set could be too.

So we can put to bed all discussion of the leaked scenes. They’re not from the show.

However, they were filmed by an actual Hollywood VFX company as their bid to do VFX for the show. For them to be doing this test at all means they’re at some level in contact with Netflix– they wouldn’t spend money on shooting this (with actors, costumes, props, CGI, and a whole made-up script) if Netflix wasn’t inviting them to.

For this, we can probably take the leaker at their word: “Netflix has reached out to multiple VFX companies to do these sorts of tests, so this was just one company’s bid.”

Assuming that that’s true, we can assume that the people there that day knew more than us. And so we turn to the rumors the leaker heard on set:

“Word on set was that Netflix was planning to film most of the show on-location in Vancouver and Hawaii.”

This seems believable, and it would be great if it’s true. Those two locations cover an extremely wide range of biomes that could be used for almost anywhere throughout the Four Nations. For all the travelling the Gaang does, it would totally make sense to film on-location in nature.

When you get to more complicated locations, that’s when sound stages, green screen, and hopefully some filming in Asia come into play.

Bryan has already described the series as a “fantasy travel show”, so we know they’re not going to skip out on all the locations.

Virtual production

Now is a good time to turn back to virtual production. Virtual production is when filmmakers can see rendered VFX while filming in real time and real space. So they can move around a green screen or sound stage and see on a screen or VR headset the virtual set mapped to physical space. This means they can set up camera angles, blocking, choreography, etc. like on a real set.

The leaked images actually showed this, they were mostly photos of screens showing the composited VFX on set.

We also already know that the real live-action ATLA series is using virtual reality to step into the fantasy world of the show. Since they’re doing that, it would make sense that when actually filming they’ll use virtual production for locations that require green screen or a sound stage, or even to see things like bending, spirits, and creatures in real time while filming. (We know one of the fake scenes included Katara waterbending, so it’s possible Netflix asked for the VFX companies’ virtual production bids to include bending.)

So this is another point for the series planning to use virtual reality/production to film.

And now to the other on-set rumor:

“Somebody also said Netflix wants this Avatar series “to be their own Game of Thrones.””

Let’s hope this means in terms of budget!

Thanks for reading!

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uh “we’re fake dating and we need to prove to someone close to us that we are actually together and oh fuck they want us to kiss” is still one of the best fucking tropes in the book don’t fucking touch me

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There is a phrase used to describe people, often strangers, as “ships passing in the night.” The phrase is meant to describe how fleeting the intersection of two lives can be, how briefly people we don’t know can flicker in and out of our lives. 

But when I read about the Titanic, I think we can push the phrase further. Because sometimes, as you pass another ship in the night, you may hear a cry in the dark. A person in danger. A shout for help. Distress rockets and SOS signals wailing into the night. A stranger in crisis. 

And in those fleeting moments as your ship passes theirs, you get to make the choice- are you the Californian, the closest ship to the Titanic, which saw the distress rockets and saw the lights on the horizon and sat and did nothing; or are you the Carpathia, turning on a dime, pushing all steam to the engines, racing to help?

We can not say for sure what caused the Californian to not help the Titanic in that night of crisis. Whether is was apathy or incompetence or fear, we don’t know.

 But we know that every single soul who survived the Titanic survived because of the Carpathia. Because the crew and the passengers of that ship raced nearly 60 miles through ice fields above their maximum speed in the dead of night, readying life boats, readying triage, to pull them from the water. 

So, yes, we are ships passing in the night, and when given the chance to turn away or do good, always err on the side of reckless compassion. 

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Today the lady behind me in line at the grocery store checkout politely tapped my shoulder and when I turned around she motioned toward my giant bundles of kale and asked: “what do you do with your kale? Do you cook with it, or make juice, or…?” And i admitted there in front of god and the world “oh I feed it to my peacocks.” And she just looked so taken aback that I said “I’m sorry that’s not the answer you were hoping for”

And that’s how I learned other people don’t really know what to do with kale either. We’re all pretty sure it’s edible, though.

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holy fucking shit, i’m a lucky bastard, han solo thinks after realizing that leia fucking organa wants to be his wife

"whoa" said han solo after decide he wants to be Leia fucking Organa's husband

that’s canon, folks!!

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Cis people with trans headcanons are.. suspicious

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when you finally get to writing the scene you started this story for, and now you have to make sure you don’t fuck it up

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Friendly reminder that fan-made content (fanart, fanfic, fanvids, etc) are:

extremely time consuming. Remember someone actually took time out of their life to create that, time they could’ve used to, idk, sleep, for example

entertainment you’re consuming for free. I can’t stress this enough: you’re enjoying someone else’s craft for free. You paid exactly zero money to look at/read/watch it.

S H A R E D  with you, not made for you. This is the most important point: someone created that, put it online and you found it. No one forced you to consume that fanwork, you C H O S E  to do it. 

Whenever you feel like leaving a mean comment, anonymous hate or make a ~clever post about how ‘lol look at all of these overused tropes every fic writer crams into their fics’ remember you’re being a dick to someone who shared their work with you. You’re not being funny, you’re not being edgy, you’re not being brave for calling something out - you’re being a dick.

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Britney Spears Oops!…I Did It Again (2000)

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Modern au dorks

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EIGHT FUCKING MONTHS LATER TUMBLR FINALLY RESTORED MY BLOG

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Never let this cruel world steal your spark. (x)

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Mercedes Lackey is probably my favorite fantasy author ever, and she is criminally underrated.

Hey can I just say that it’s utterly fucked that George RR Martin and Patrick Rothfuss are revered as gods of modern fantasy writing when neither of them has been able to produce a book in years and they also can’t write women

plus George RR Martin just copied wars of the roses

and Rothfuss made a legit plot point that Kvothe fucked a fairy for months

I’m not saying that I don’t enjoy these books, because I do, but I am just saying that I read fantasy books 10x better by women all the time. 

meanwhile, there are so many female fantasy authors who produce brilliant work, but because it is marketed towards women, it’s either YA or it’s paranormal romance (BOTH OF WHICH I STAN OK) and therefore doesn’t get considered “serious” fantasy even though they have better world building, magic, and writing style than most “masters of the genre.”

like, why is it that fantasy books written about women and by women are ONLY READ BY WOMEN AND MARKETED TO WOMEN, meanwhile fantasy books written by men about men are READ BY EVERYONE AND MARKETED AS THE NORM. 

like male fantasy nerds are just sleeping on Ilona Andrews because they write about women and add a romance plot line, meanwhile Kate Daniels is one of the best damn fantasy series I have ever read with some of the best world building and plotting e v e r. 

And I’m not implying that authors have to produce 3 books a year to be serious authors, but it’s a bit ridiculous that the fantasy genre and pub industry keeps pushing asoiaf and kingkiller chronicles at us when we don’t even have a date for the sequel. WHY DON’T YOU PROMOTE BOOKS BY WOMEN WHO KNOW HOW TO WRITE GOOD FEMALE CHARACTERS?? WHY NOT PROMOTE FANTASY BOOKS BY AUTHORS OF COLOR??

WHY IS FANTASY ON THE SAME WHITE MAN BULLSHIT ALL THE TIME????

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there’s always that jerk named kevin that shows up in cartoons

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i think about this a lot