The Perfect Storm with Habib Zargarpour, VFX Notes Podcast Ep 43

(chapters available) This week we talk about the groundbreaking VFX of Wolfgang Petersen s The Perfect Storm with a special guest. We are joined by Habib Zargarpour, the associate visual effects supervisor of the film for ILM. We discuss the water simulations, the compositing, the software used at the time and so much more. This is an episode you dont want to miss. A word from our sponsor Ftrack is an Academy Awardwinning project management, production tracking, and media review platform for the creative industry. Please visit ftrack s website to know more: Chapters 00:00 intro 01:08 sponsors 01:52 podcast begins 03:59 CG water 05:07 the test shot 08:20 filming reference plates with the coast guard 12:55 state of play on fluid dynamics in 2000 18:16 elements and AOVs in compositing 21:54 names of elements pipeline 26:15 resolution and render time 28:32