Does Jake Sully’s Avatar bed do something to keep his body from atrophying?
Apparently not, but the designers considered having Jake suspended in some kind of fluid or on top of gel, that would allow for blood circulation while the Avatar “driver” is immobile for long periods of time, says Bartoli. “Design-wise we always tried to strike a balance between having the technology look functional and cool at the same time.” Jake’s tribe is called the Omaticaya. What does that mean, exactly? Apparently it refers to a particular type of flute-like instrument this tribe makes music with. (The one that that woman is good at playing, whom Neytiri tries to fix Jake up with.) So why are Pandora’s trees green like Earth trees, when everything else is so weirdly colored? As we mentioned in our previous design feature, there was a huge push among some of the designers to make the foliage of Pandora cyan-colored instead of green. This turned out to be a problem because of creating depth perception, but also Stromberg opposed it — it would have made the “atmospheric haze” hard
