Twentieth Century Fox has budgeted $237 million for the production of "Avatar." Cameron was behind the lens using a "virtual camera" It is a handheld monitor that lets the director walk through the computer-enhanced 3-D scene and record it as if he were the cameraman. The effect on screen seems up close and sometimes focuses the audience's gaze at something in particular. Before when capturing human motion, they now capture the slightest detail down to the pore to create a better realism.

Though all this is new, not all the movei theatres have the screen to apply the 3teachnolog too the movie.