Outline of the Third Term Paper

Topic: Giant wave and flooding effect

Two movies that created the effect of a flood: The Day After Tomorrow and The Impossible

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1. The Impossible
   
   

1. Scene: tsunami first wave hits and floods a resort in Thailand
2. Techniques: combination of miniature scale models, water dumps, and cgi elements and backgrounds
3. Very successful due to actual water used and combination of miniature, practical, and digital effects used

II.     The Day After Tomorrow

1. Scene: wave floods city of Manhattan
2. Techniques: digitally assembled thousands of photographs of Manhattan buildings and streets, Digital Domain designed Storm software to generate volumetrics, ran particle simulations to create semi-random motion paths
3. Also successful with combinations of wide shots of cgi and close ups of practical effects