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Breakdown: Ocean Storm in Blender

Bart ·

Check out this awesome fluid sim by BlindIllusionist!

I wanted to achieve a simulation like this for a long time and it took me a while to figure it out. But I think I was able to achieve a good effect with Blender and Flip Fluids, trying to replicate this “Houdini-style” simulation of the ship being static and the waves crashing into it.

The ship itself is inspired by the “SS Venture” from the movie “King Kong” from Peter Jackson and I also made it myself from scratch.

The final simulation took 27 hours for 600 frames and needs 655GB of disk space. But of course not including the countless hours of trial and error to get towards the final look.

(Originally appeared on Blender Artists)

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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