
One Piece Season 2 is finally available with a Netflix subscription, and boy, was it worth the wait. The latest batch of episodes should hold fans over with its pulse-pounding action and stunning visuals that had me questioning how they had the money for all this. Now, I sort of have an answer thanks to a behind-the-scenes clip of Nami actress Emily Rudd, who showed the remarkably simple way they fake ocean scenes.
Sorry to ruin the theater of the mind, but One Piece does not film its entire season out on the sea. Rudd explained to EW how the production crew makes the ocean look real, using a simple practical effects trick: