The Guardian - Ocean Surface FX - RealFlow

Unfortunately this plays pretty dark here, may see it better on our website: The Guardian was an intensely challenging fluid fx project with major breakthroughs re what is possible in fluid fx with a small, talented group of vfx artists and off-the-shelf software. Fusion CIS provided in-house fluid simulation supervision for the primary vfx studio, Flash Film Works, as well fluid dynamic expertise, training, custom python scripting, scene-building and technical liaising with Next Limit Technologies. Using the beta version of RealFlow 4, a team of 7 RealFlow artists attacked more than 40 fluid shots involving multiple photo-real stormy ocean elements, including boat wakes, bow hits, wave hits, water jets from sinking ships, breaking waves and whitecaps on large 3D ocean surfaces, with some shots hundreds of frames long. The effort required intense rd by Fusion CIS running concurrently with shot production supervision. And Fusion devised custom Python scripts, optimized for s