Over at FXGuide, they have a great writeup of the various effects in the new Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie.  Covering work done by MPC, Framestore, Cinesite, and others, it goes into incredible detail of several of the effects.  I love the discussion of the “standing tidal wave” from the end of the movie.

Markers placed on the beach set out the proposed location of what was conceived as an enormous standing tidal wave. “Our problem was that it was to be on screen for minutes and minutes,” said Fawkner. “And in broad daylight. The other problem was how to realise the wave given that it was kind of alive but also static. We also had to work out just where all the water was actually coming from.”

Get all the gory details at their site.

via FXGuide