While the Utai were realized as computer-generated characters, the taller Pau 'ans were a mix of practical and digital creature effects.

尤塔人被定为计算机生成的角色，帕人则是实物和数字效果的混合产物。

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Cameron explains that those captured performances are the key to making the CG or computer-generated digital characters that audiences see come 'alive.' "I don't want to be an animator.

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The old series used a technique called "supermarionation", using fine wires to move the puppets, but the new series will use computer-generated characters.

BBC: Captain Scarlet

Simon Clutterbuck, James Jacobs and Dr. Richard Dorling won for inventing a technique which has made huge advances in bringing to life computer-generated characters such as Gollum in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.

BBC: The Hobbit picks up technical Oscar

With them, computer-generated characters suddenly become unnervingly real.

ECONOMIST: Animation takes on a whole new reality