I Remade Avatar Water VFX in 100 Hours

Thank you so much for watching! I would really appreciate feedback on what I can do better. And if you have any video ideas, let me know!

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:17 - How Water Animation Used To Be Done
0:36 - The Start Of Simulated Water
1:06 - Softwares
1:28 - 1 Minute Water Simulation
2:01 - How Does CG Water Work?
3:03 - Why Does it Take So Long?
3:50 - 1 Hour Water Simulation
4:58 - Motion Array
6:18 - Why is Houdini The Best?
6:57 - My Water Work On Movies
7:19 - Why Does it Take Up So Much Space?
7:59 - Real-Time Water Simulation
8:24 - Avatar: The Way of Water
8:47 - 100 Hours Water Simulation
10:58 - The Results

[dedegaard]

hey thats my model!! this is really sweet, thanks so much for using it! i always wanted to see it jumping out of the water, so it's great to see that you could make it happen:)

[falpatrick]

I don't really care about VFX all that much but the way you explain it and the effort you put in to this video makes it really fun to watch.

[Xeratas]

Imagine beeing this good in VFX and beeing 150% entertaining at the same time. Very impressive.

[jamesoncollins]

@11:33 is what i was waiting for that last explosions of water when it crashes back on itself. AWESOME WORK DUDE

[mathildeleitek]

You make me wanna learn how to do VFX! The 100 hour result is incredible!!

[TheFarGaurd]

First YouTuber CGI that actually looks good like a movie, BIG props!!

[zachtaurosa]

that 100hour shot blew my pants off. amazing work

[Stammer]

The second splash after the whale submerges sells the whole thing for me. This is truly impressive!

[rubigarcia]

Not only the video content is interesting, but the HUGE amount of work you did is... Just WOW! Not only did you spend 111 hours with the cgi, but you also took the time and effort to go outside, film the explanation scenes, film the funny "documentary" thing, and then edit the whole video.
Props dude, you've got yourself a new subscriber.

[TheMightyHams]

The reason why smoke simulations look so similar to water simulations is because from a physics/engineering perspective, they are pretty much identical. In science we refer to gases and liquids as 'fluids', because their behaviours can be modelled using the same sets of equations (Navier-stokes et al.). The only (main) difference between the two is the density and viscosity of the fluid.

[mikolajva]

VFX Supe here. Thanks, Erik for such an excellent example of how talent & enough time = quality. I'll share it with my clients when they request that FX work be done in a day. Your 1-hour example looks like 8h of work at any studio. You are fast!!

[sebastianpatrickp]

Bro the amount of effort you put into these videos is impressive! Love your long form content!

[leifdux]

Respect to you man! I was in VFX company before, but damn the combination of nodes, expressions, troubleshooting and debugging really put a dent on my head that I will never want to go back.

[Padyatra]

It's simply astonishing that you can do this at home, with a proper set of skills of course. 25y ago I worked at TV station which was one of the first one in Europe equipped with non-linear editing station. In today's standards it was extremely simple, SD only, simple dissolve needed rendering and it cost in hundreds of thousand of dollars. And here you have young talented visual graphic designer who can create a whole movie at home. Well done.

[RisingSun]

That photo reference and your 100 hr animation are both absolutely STUNNING!😍

[aZoOs]

I don't know why this came up in my recommendations but I'm glad it did. The effort you put in the VFX simulations can be seen even in your video editing as well. It's 10/10.

[catto]

Not only the vfx is crazy, even the video editing is so interesting, i really enjoyed it OMGGGG

[mahirdaiyan]

it was insane bro, was blown always by the last one before this video l didn`t really know this deeply how damn hard it is to create these scenes, , mark my words bro this channel is going to grow huge soon.

[ZedEdge]

Oh and also just whipped up some professional sound design. Just an afterthought really 😵‍💫 Great stuff!

[ansems]

Sorry.. WHAT WAS THAT WHALE SHOT?? This is so incredibly good! Not gonna lie, I clicked on that video expecting that this thumbnail was clickbait. I am far far from being an expert (I only did many fluid sims for commercial use) but I would say that I have roughly 5% of the knowledge to make your 100 hour shot. Amazing work! And i expected to see the sub count at 100.000. Not under 20.000