CG TALK: 300 Art Director Grant Freckleton

"... the boat FX? Full credit to Scanline in Germany. Those guys are CG fluid genuises. The bulk of the time of those shots were spent tweaking the comping end of things, because their CG water looked pretty much perfect from very early on. Again, refer to Cinefex for more in depth technical details."

"The Electronic Theater also presents a watershed year for fluid simulation in feature films. Scanlines 300´s Liquid Battlefield, Sony Pictures Animation´s Surf´s Up, and Digital Domain and Industrial Light and Magic´s Pirates of the Caribbean all feature uniquely executed but beautifully believable digital oceans and waves", added Debevec.

► Siggraph Electronic Theater page
► Animation World Network covers Siggraph 2007 Electronic Theater

What Visual Effects Spervisor, Chris Watts has to say "We teamed up with Scanline of Germany, which did some water work on Poseidon. They got it. We showed them the frame from the book and if you compare the frame from the book to the frame from the movie, it´s just amazing how they did it. Not only did they make completely convincing water and ships, but they also went through the trouble to make all this secondary animation of Persians falling off masts and smashing on rocks.

► VFX World: It´s Miller Time

Scanline´s "Flow" in Siggraph 2006 Electronic Theater

► Siggraph 2006 Electronic Theater

J. Paul Peszko dives into the extraordinary advances in CG water on display this summer in "Poseidon" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man´s Chest".

► *Water, Water, Everywhere ...*

Studio Daily´s Barbara Robertson covers Water Effects for Poseidon

► Poseidon´s Wet VFX Work

VFX World interviews Stanford professor Ron Fedkiw and Scanline Production´s Stephan Trojansky about their advances in fluid dynamics.

► Fluid Dynamics: A Look at Two Giants