Production
Most close-up shots involving limited movement by Willy, such as when Willy is in the trailer and the sequences involving Willy swimming in the open water, make use of an animatronic stand-in. Walt Conti, who supervised the effects for the whales, estimated that half of the shots of the orca used animatronic orcas (each full-sized whale needed over 250 horsepower of hydraulics). Conti stated that the fewer movements of a real Orca actually made things difficult in some ways for him and his crew; they had to concentrate on smaller nuances in order to make the character seem alive. The most extensive uses of CGI in the film is the climax of the film, filmed in Astoria, Oregon, where Willy jumps over Jesse and into the wild. All stunts with the whale were performed by the young orca trainer Justin Sherman.
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