Avatar 3’s Gorgeous Concept Art Teases More of Pandora’s Beauty

Whatever other you deliberation astir James Cameron’s Avatar movies, there’s nary denying they’re some utterly gorgeous and conscionable afloat of ocular splendor. Looking astatine photos oregon watching clips online, it’s casual to spot however radical clasp the archetypal and 2022’s The Way of Water successful bully regard, and wherefore Disney would fto Cameron support making these movies.

The adjacent film, Fire and Ash, didn’t get a afloat showcase astatine this weekend’s D23 Brazil, but Cameron did amusement up to contiguous immoderate conception creation of what’s to come, which you tin spot below.. As expected, it each looks unthinkable and vivid successful the mode Avatar movies ever bash that besides beauteous overmuch already guarantees it’s taking the VFX Oscar successful 2026. Along with a nighttime presumption of Pandora’s water and its underwater wildlife, we spot the Pandoran equivalent of blimps and blistery aerial balloons, and a glimpse of the film’s large selling point: the Na’vi Ash People.

Unlike the Na’vi tribes featured successful the archetypal 2 movies, the Ash People volition beryllium antagonists for Jake Sully and his family. In 2023, Cameron explained helium wanted to contiguous “different sides” to Na’vi culture, successful crook starring to the series’ first-ever Na’vi vs. Na’vi conflict. “We volition besides research caller worlds, portion continuing the communicative of the main characters,” helium said astatine the time. “I tin accidental that the past parts volition beryllium the best. The others were an introduction, a mode to acceptable the array earlier serving the meal.”

According to Cameron astatine D23 Brazil, Avatar: Fire & Ash is currrently successful post-production up of its December 19, 2025 release. The artists featured present are Zachary Berger, Steve Messing, and Dylan Cole.

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