UPDATED: AVATAR images were fakes

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

UPDATE: So, the images turned out to be fakes. The guy who produced the images kindly got in touch and gave us this explanation:

I'm Jonay Bacallado, the author of the images. They are part of my artwork, my personal artwork, and it has nothing to do with the actual concept art of the film. The interview has been removed from www.plansiete.com as well, I've spoken about his incident with responsibles of the program, because information it's not accurate, and things can be misunderstood. Please, I have to ask you to remove this information, because the images shown are part of my own portfolio, no one has asked for authorisation, and of course,and most importantly, those designs have nothing to do with the real concepts and designs. I spoke during the interview about my experience, images were taken from my website, and they asume they are real concept art, but is not. The editing odf the video is quite confussing and may lead people to think it's the real concept art done, but it's not!!! Just to emphasise what I'm trying to explain mention that the design of characters have been done by another team, and we only get invlolved in costume, and as I said before, Avatar is far from this personal creation of mine included in my portfolio. This would get me into trouble, and without a reason, because this is NOT AVATAR CONCEPT ART. So please, people who follows Avatar news deserve to know that this concepts are FAKES, they are my creation, but have nothing to do with the work done in pre-production. Thank you, Jonay Bacallado.

Market Saw have posted concept design images of the Na'vi character from James Cameron's upcoming 3-D epic movie AVATAR. They were created by concept artist Jonay Bacallado, who did a similar job for APOCALYPTO...

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The images confirm that this movie is going to look quite unlike anything we have ever seen before...

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I'm not authority on technology, so I will just direct you to the original source HERE, as they nicely guide you through what all the design aspects mean. AVATAR opens Dec. 18th 2009! via - /film