Obviously, much of the critical acclaim for "Avatar: The Way of Water" is directed at its visual effects. The clarity, imagination, and beauty on display truly astounded me, whether I was seeing it in standard 2D or in IMAX 3D HFR. But while so much of the VFX discussion revolves around the advancements in performance capture, there are many other visual effects in the movie that we don't even think about.
For the vast majority of the film, we are looking at things entirely created in...