James Cameron first feature film since 1997's "Titanic". It is composed almost entirely of computer-generated animation, using a more-advanced version of the "performance capture" technique used by director Robert Zemeckis in "The Polar Express". James Cameron had written an 80-page scriptment for "Avatar" in 1995 and announced in 1996 that he would make the film after completing "Titanic". In December 2006, Cameron explained that the delay in producing the film since the 1990s had been to wait until the technology necessary to create his project was advanced enough, since at the time no studio would finance for the development of the visual
James Roderick Johnston Cameron James Roderick Johnston Cameron James Roderick Johnston Cameron PPRCSE (1902–1997) was a 20th century Scottish surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1967 to 1970. He was born on 24 June 1902 in Belfast the son of a dentist of Scottish descent, and originally trained as a dentist. He studied Medicine at Edinburgh University and did postgraduate studies at the University of Montreal and McGill University developing an interest in neurosurgery under Prof Wilder Penfield. Returning to Britain he became an assistant surgeon at Leith Hospital then in 1939 got a position at