James Cameron has done a bang up job of keeping Avatar a guarded secret, this project and the technology behind it has been in the works for years and virtually nothing has been leaked or revealed about this SciFi epic in the making throughout the production, which in todays world of tweeting from the set and leaked (and then downloaded) work prints, is quite a feat in and of itself.

The latest issue of Empire magazine has a behind the scenes look of Cameron on his sets and talked with him about the technology that was developed for this project.

We’ve eliminated the animation from animation, With the capture technologies we developed, the actor can be any character they can imagine and the director can create any world, any time and any space.

You can see some of the scans below; in addition, more scans and additional info can be found over at MarketSaw3D