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 a country he fell in love with when he was filming "Avatar". In 2016, Cameron partnered with Tourism New Zealand to produce a series of videos that expressed his love for the country. Cameron calls himself "Converted Agnostic", and says "I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism". As a child he described the Lord's Prayer as being a "tribal chant". He has been a close friend of fellow filmmaker Guillermo del Toro since they met during the production of Del Toro's 1993 film "Cronos". Around 1997, Del Toro's father, Federico del Toro Torres, was kidnapped in Guadalajara;