Cameron shares his creative process

A driven perfectionist with vision and a short fuse for mediocrity, James Cameron continues to set the standard in using technology creatively to tell his stories in film.

It was on the BIO Channel that I discovered Visionaries Inside the Creative Mind the other day, which featured the multiple Oscar-winning director responsible for a handful of the worlds highest grossing films.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, Every artist was first an amateur and no great man ever complains of want of opportunities, the Canadian-born Cameron initially had humble beginnings.

When he relocated to California in the 1970s, he studied physics at Fullerton Junior College while working as a machinist and a truck driver. Watching Star Wars in 1977 left an indelible impact and made him want to become a filmmaker.

He later raised money from local dentists to produce a 35mm short film, which got him a job with the famed low budget B-movie filmmaker Roger Corman, where he started off as a production designer, matte artist and visual effects DP.

The year he got his big break was 1984, with The Terminator, which also launched the career of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The well-received sci-fi action film about a killer cyborg was where Cameron utilised his guerrilla filmmaking techniques and creative special effects, making use of whatever was around and keeping to a shoestring budget.

He then moved on to produce bigger budget films like Aliens in 1986.

A technical genius, Cameron also founded the famous visual effects production and technology company, Digital Domain, and continues to push the envelope for technology in filmmaking.

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