How would you re-create the Dancing Oracle scene from 300?

[Linda Barzini]

How would you re-create the dancing Oracle scene from 300? Is the jerky movement just time-ramping or is it something different? Would this be 90 or 120 FPS? How do they make her hair look like it is underwater (much like Amy Adams inside the Heptapod domain in Arrival)? Are the silks on her arms created in post? If this is green screen, then all the smoke elements must be added in post?

 

[Ericsson San Pablo Chu]

I think it was mostly shot underwater high speed blue screen - http://www.studiodaily.com/2007/03/creating-the-oracle-in-300/

 

[Tom S]

Thanks. That seems like cheating. Good for them, very clever.

 

[Sterling Williams]

Yeah looks like underwater. And shot in high speed with speed ramps in post.