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ScanlineVFX has posted a “Making Of” reel for their work in Clint Eastwood’s HEREAFTER.

YouTube – HEREAFTER Featurette: Visual Effects Shot Breakdowns Reel.

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VFX companies “Uncharted Territory” and “Scanline VFX” combined to create over 500 shots for cataclysmic “2012″, and utilized NVidia Quadro GPUs to both render and simulate the apocalyptic scenes.

“In creating the cataclysmic events of 2012, we couldn’t risk our own catastrophic failure or delays, and that’s why we rely on NVIDIA GPUs,” said Marc Weigert, co-founder of Uncharted Territory, “All of the 100 plus workstations custom-built for this project include an NVIDIA Quadro FX processor, selected for both the high reliability and ultra-high performance required in our line of work.”

via NVIDIA Technology Drives Earth-Shattering Visual Effects in Blockbuster Hit “2012”.

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One of the many natural disaster you get to see in the upcoming 2012 is Tidal Waves caused by undersea earthquakes.  In a new video on Yahoo, Roland Emmerich and his visual effects team talks about the difficulties in modeling and animating water on that scale.  The work was done by Scanline (website).

See the video after the break.

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