The Art of Avatar The Art of Avatar The Art of Avatar: James Cameron's Epic Adventure is a film production art book released on November 30, 2009, by Abrams Books. The book is an official movie tie-in for the film "Avatar" and features some of the concept artwork used in the production of the film. The main author is Lisa Fitzpatrick. Producer Jon Landau wrote the foreword, James Cameron wrote the epilogue, and director Peter Jackson wrote the preface. It also contains illustrations from and interviews with the movie's artists, including Robert Stromberg, Wayne Barlowe, Yuri Bartoli, Jordu Schell, and John Rosengrant. The book
Avatar (2009 film) production in mid-1997 for a 1999 release. However, Cameron felt that the technology had not caught up with the story and vision that he intended to tell. He decided to concentrate on making documentaries and refining the technology for the next few years. It was revealed in a "Bloomberg BusinessWeek" cover story that 20th Century Fox had fronted $10 million to Cameron to film a proof-of-concept clip for "Avatar", which he showed to Fox executives in . In February 2006, Cameron revealed that his film "Project 880" was "a retooled version of "Avatar"", a film that he had tried to