Gerardo Aguilera
ABSTRACT
In Eternals third act we were faced with the challenge of creating extremely large water whirlpools that would spread for kilometres wide and deep. It was imperative that we approached this in an optimal way that would allow artistic control, reasonable turnaround time whilst maintaining a plausible and realistic look. This article focuses in the methodology used and how we took advantage of our in-house package Loki to achieve the results.
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