Psunami

Gorgeous photo-real water.

Psunami Water generates precise 3D geometry of an ocean surface, then produces ultra-realistic ray-traced output that looks like real water. Psunami has been used in many feature films, television productions and commercials. For instance, Psunami was used in the production of Miramax's movie 'The Aviator'.

Example from movie.

A still from the movie 'The Aviator'. By Miramax © 2004. Matte painting design: Robert Stromberg. Compositing: Paul Graff for Digital Backlot. Visual Effects Supervisor: Rob Legato. Special thanks to Tami Goldsmith, Oliver Holz and Paul Graff.

Want to see more professional work created with Psunami? Just go to our Gallery page.

State of the art rendering.

Psunami utilizes the RenderWorld ray-tracing render engine from Arete Image Software. This gives you render quality that's generally only found in high-end 3D systems. On the film side, RenderWorld's images have been used in movies including Titanic, The Truman Show, Cast Away and Pearl Harbor. In fact, the stand-along version of RenderWorld won a CGW Year 1996 Innovation Award.

Our Psunami version gives you exactly the same technology and power. Use camera controls to set tilt, pan, roll and elevation for the waves. Design your waves with wind and swells. Texture or displace the water surface with built-in image maps. Animate gorgeous 3D oceanographic effects without leaving your host application.

For this project, we toon-shaded the Psunami water, inserted a QuickTime movie of sky footage, and animated some lighting. [play]

Another combination of Psunami Water and a custom sky plate. [play]