Re: How this effect is made?

HolyFreakin'Crap!

So I'm thinking echo but probably not the one that comes in the box, right? On some of the really long, swirly tricks toward the end you can see apparent masking on the water under his shadow but choppy water is very forgiving. There is mostly clever camera work to make these shots possible.

On the rotation ones it seems to be two shots warped together. Remember when they were turning cars into tigers and whatnot all the time? I think it's the same thing. I think the effects guys find to shots they can blend together with a similar trick in them then they take the first half of the trick and warp it into the second half. With a bunch of blurry water and a little motion blur on the back ground your gold.

That slow motion thing is scaring the crap out of me though.