The ocean and water pipeline of Disney's Moana

Disney's "Moana" was set in an environment inspired by the Pacific Islands, which made the ocean a prominent setting throughout the film. For much of the film, we found it necessary to treat our oceans like we would our hero characters, and so we ...

For Disney's Moana, water was a dominant part of island life, in fact it had a life of itfis own. Presenting itself as a character, water was ever present, in a multitude of shapes and scales. An end-to-end water pipeline was developed for this film [...

We used two different solutions for generating crashing waves for more than 40 shots in Moana. Our profile curve based wave deformer was developed and used for art-directed design of shapes, motion, and composition of running and crashing waves. In ...