This is a list of scientific literature published in relation to the production of the Avatar franchise. Primarily, these are scientific papers which document the research behind the tools and technologies developed for producing the Avatar films. This list does not include works by outside academics who are writing about Avatar, but rather publications by those who were involved in the franchise's production.
- Sagar, M. (2011) "Creating models for simulating the face" MODELS'11: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems, pp. 394. Available at: [1]. A paper documenting the facial animation technologies developed for Avatar.
- Stomakhin, A., Moffat, A., & Boyle, G. (2019) "A Practical Guide to Thin Film and Drips Simulation” SIGGRAPH 2019. Available at: [2]. A paper documenting advancements in water simulation built for Battle Angel Alita, during the production period of Avatar: The Way of Water.[1]
- Choi, B. et al. (2022) “Animatomy: An animator-centric, anatomically inspired system for 3D facial modeling, animation and transfer,” SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 Conference Papers [Preprint]. Available at: [3]. A paper documenting advancements in facial animation made during production of Avatar: The Way of Water.
- Lesser, S. et al. (2022) “Loki: a unified multiphysics simulation framework for production” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 41(4), pp. 1–20. Available at: [4]. A paper documenting Loki, the fluid framework which was developed for Avatar: The Way of Water.