'Three Days At Memorial' VFX Supervisor Eric Durst On Recreating 9th Ward Levee Breach -- Visual Effects + Screen
Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of Hurricane Katrina, there wasn’t a lot of archival footage of some of the more devastating moments that producers wanted to depict inlike when the roof came off the Superdome and the 9th Ward flooding. So VFX Supervisor Eric Durst said his team went back “forensically” to research those moments before depicting them in the Apple TV limited series.
“We had to visualize what that was, the breaching of the lower 9th Ward, where a wave of 12 to 20 feet was unleashed. It was like a tidal wave that wiped out everything in its path,” Durst said Sunday at Deadline’s Visual Effects + Screen. “We wanted to be was accurate a possible. This event took 1,400 American lives. We had to be very careful how to do it and not just have a spectacular shot. They had to be powerful but they also had to be emotional.
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