For decades, studios have treated animation as a testing ground for live-action spectacle. Future hits, like The Lord of The Rings, proved viable in this medium before converting. For anime and East-Asian stories, this pipeline rarely works. Yet Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender adapts one of America’s most popular TV shows. Providing a big budget … Continue reading NETFLIX’S AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER Builds a New Tone, But Overrelies on CG