The Last Airbender is out in theaters and boasts some impressive CGI effects of water and fire working and ‘bending’ in physics defying ways. MTV Movie Blogs has a short interview with VFX Supervisor Pablo Helman about some of the more complex effects.
“We looked at NASA footage. They did some experiments with liquid water in zero gravity ” Helman said. “If you look at the water in zero gravity it behaves in a specific way. It stays together it forms balls and there s all this interesting stuff that happens inside the balls of water. That s what we showed Night and he loved it. So we had to come up with a piece of software that allowed us to manipulate water in the same way.”
