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 Cameron Mackenzie James Cameron Mackenzie James Cameron Mackenzie (1852 — 1931) was an American educator, born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He came to America when he was a boy, studied in the public schools of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in the Bloomsburg Normal School in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, at Phillips Exeter Academy, and at Lafayette College, where he graduated in 1878. He then studied theology at Princeton. Mackenzie organized in 1882 and was head master until 1899 of the Lawrenceville School for Boys in Lawrenceville School. After a few months abroad he was made director of Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Md. (1899). In 1901 he founded