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History of VFX in Indian Films

In our last post we had discussed history of Special effect in Indain cinema today we are here to discuss history of VFX in Indian cinema. If we are talking and discussing about history of Indian Films the name that comes in our mind is Dada Saheb Phalke. Now when we are talking about advent of vfx in Indian Cinema, again its Dada Saheb Phalke whose movies in silent era sites the example of use of vfx in movie Kaliamardan in the year 1919. Use of vfx at that era is actually commendable and amazing too. Gradually the Telegu cinema adapted vfx and some great work came up like Pathala Bhairavi and Maya Bazar which has actually taken the use of vfx to another height in movies.

In the year 1980 Indian VFX industry got a leap as Prasad video Digital which later transformed into Prasad EFX imported the first scanner and recorder which helped to produce digital image.

Visual effect enhance the look and feel of the movie earlier it’s been noticed vfx being used mainly in mythological film to portray larger than life effect and character so that the audience can get that feel of the movie.

Since then and now Indian cinema has seen lots of evolution era wise. Now the visual effect has become a part of each and every movie produced. Earlier the cost was high now with the advent of new technology things have changed drastically.

Our discussion simply takes our reader to encourage the opportunities one can get when it comes to entering the VFX industry. Maac Animation Kolkata offers bouquet of different courses  If you have decided to go ahead to take VFX courses to give your career a kick start this is the right time and right opportunity.

Cartoon Network Channel

In our today’s blog we will be discussing on a channel on television which wholly and solely runs on telecasting cartoon shows and animation programmes. Cartoon Network is an American satellite television channel owned by Time Warner. The speciality of this channel is its main focus is to entertain children’s by showing different animation programmes aiming the age group of 7 to 14 years mainly.

The channel aired its programme in India in four different languages namely Hindi, English, Tamil and Telegu. Since its inception in Indian market the channel has gained popularity through many interesting shows like Horrid Henry, Oggy and the Cockroaches, The Flintstones,The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Courage the Cowardly Dog are few names. To gain Indi audience the network has started focusing on number of animation shows like "Mighty Raju: Superhero School", "Sonic Boom Dhamaal Aur Dhoom", "Sholay Adventures".

With constant growth in the Indian market the channel has adapted new strategies to gain more likes in the Indian Market. It’s been said cartoon show watching doesn’t have any age barer. Although the channel has a targeted age group but everyone seems to enjoy animation programme irrespective of ages.

With the coming of this channel Indian animation industry got a huge boost. The flow of work increased as the channel required programme that would suit in Indian market so in variably the need of skilled animator increased. With its growing popularity channel also launched different animation games which also become very popular among kids.

With the evolution of 3D animation the channel made a smart move in producing excellent 3D animation programmes like ReBoot, Starwar Animated Series , Saladin etc to name a few. The visual appeal of 3D animation has hit the mind of Indian animation, but the charm and memory of 2d Animation is still there in the heart of the audience.

Use of VFX in serial Chakravartin Samrat Ashoka

Visual effects, popularly known as VFX is playing a key role in the daily soaps for Indian audience. One such most popular and talked about serial of these days is “Chakravartin Samrat Ashoka”, being aired in Colours Channel. Our today’s discussion will revolve round it. This serial been using vfx in enhancing the look and feel of the serial very nicely. It has been noticed in recent trends that if one is using vfx more in the serial you can actually engage more viewer and it helps in improving the TRP rating.

If we go down our memory lane it reminds us using vfx in Ramanand Sagar’s mythological show popularly known as Ramayana. It was the first tele-serial to use vfx in the show. Later on following the trend many other serials started using the technology.

A team of 12 crew members is responsible for executing VFX for Ashoka. Starting from creating set extension, crowd multiplication, 3D modelling, animation etc.The use of computer graphics contributes mostly in generating the look and feel of the serial. The team member’s doesn’t leave any stone unturned in creating a super fascinating world.

Apart from these technologies the serial also use software like after effects Eyon fusion, 3ds Maya, stop motion to bring more reality on the screen. Ashoka the historical drama  which has become more interesting because of its beautifully designed sets ,the lavish designed places, the grandeur sets which has able to create that historical era. The eye catching visual has actually pulled the audience.

 Let’s take a look at some of the before-after pictures to know how the makers are making the best use of VFX in the popular serial “Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat”. …

Our above discussion is taking us to conclude that the use of vfx is wide so as its scope apart from films, advertisement now a day’s daily soaps are also using vfx to enhance their visuals look and feel. So more will be the demand then the need and requirement of skilled professionals also increases who can handle projects. So stop thinking and join the glamour if you have the zeal in you.

Use of VFX in Games of Throne Season-VI

“If you don’t have my vivid imagination you couldn’t do my job”, says the super talented VFX supervisor of “Games of Thrones” series Joe Bauer.

VFX is a technology that brings all the components that can’t be shot in a normal course of production whether it is adding characters whether it is adding environment, whether it is completing sets, or whether it’s creating whole scene.

With the help of VFX they were able to manufacture worlds which are much larger than what could have been created on a sound stage or location. A visual effect acts as that end of the story telling which allows us to through the imagination of the writer, producer and director for eg:

1. Ship sailing on the sea reaching the kingdoms harbor

2. Daenerys riding a fire breathing dragon

3. The attack on the ice wall where they didn’t had enough space or number of people who can execute this episode sequence so a green screen of 30 feet high and 100 feet long was used to create a marvelous scene.

4. Fire breathing dragon in a arena, flame thrower of 50 feet strap to a robotic crane was put in a ring in Spain and 20 people were put on flame.

5. Shooting Wun Wun , a 14 feet tall character with huge weight and mass was actually executed by a person and was portrait gigantically with the help of visual effects.

VFX industry have become very computer reliant technology but shooting with organic element like fire breathing dragons ,fire and the interaction between the stunt players was a real  challenge for the team.

The best compliment to be received for VFX is to show the invisible, the work has to be really really great as we cannot expect the audience to miss a blink and that’s the reason the things that have been depicted in the series have got bigger and better.

The team shoots for three units before it use to shoot in two units. They had 800 shots in season three, 2000 in season 5.A team of five highly creative directors are shooting in five different continents.
 This season have introduced mammoths, skeleton coming out of the ground or special powers this season employees all of them. The VFX shots of season 6 are outlanders and outrageous in true sense.

VFX is a comprehensive course comprising of all you need to build a rocking career in visual effects for films, television, news channels etc. We at MAAC Animation Kolkata provide our students with hands on experience while working in a studio like environment.

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Use of Animation in Advertisement

The promotion of a product or service in the general public is advertisement.  It aims to increase the profit of a business or concern. A good advertisement holds the attention of the consumer for a specific product. That is why advertisements are made attractive to attract the notice of the customer.

The use of animation in advertisement is to make it more interesting and unique.  The other major advantage in using animation is that it’s completely limitless. If I want my character to grow taller than Eiffel Tower after taking a sip of a health drink, it’s only possible to do through animation. This is the beauty of creative tools and technology that we have. Moreover, animation helps to understand and explain the subject quicker and better than the real-time videos.

Thus animation in our advertisement makes it more entertaining eye catchy and indulges the consumer to get involved in the product. Somewhere it hits them at the back of their mind. People love to watch and remember the most entertaining videos. Recent studies shows that the funny promotional videos are the most shared content in social media and are most talked about too.

In the following link Vodafone tries to express their product in the best way using 3D animation:

This is the funniest ad of Castrol Power1 Racing two-wheeler oil promo. In this 2D animation video Castrol describes their product:

The following link is an animation ad film by Coca Cola. Through this video they try to beautifully show the love for their product even for the insects:

The reason why we are discussing advertisement media in our Maac Kolkata blog is to make our reader aware of the scope and reach of animation at different sector. It is no more limited to only film industry but its implementation has spread all across different media which make us feel if somebody is trying to make a career out of animation this is the right time and right market to hit. The animation industry in Kolkata as well as pan India is growing since its need and requirement for skilled professional are also growing over the years.

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Google Doodle celebrates Rio Olympics 2016 with Fruit Games and Mobile Game!!

World biggest search engine Google has launched new application on mobile phone where it is celebrating Rio Olympics 2016 by Google Doodle fruit games. It a very interesting featured launched by the company and its pretty attractive too.

The reason why we are discussing about this application today at our Maac Kolkata Blog is because of the eye- catching animation work goes in creating the games which is gradually becoming so popular among the users.

The game Doodle is not only entertaining but it is very interesting as well, where the game is all about different fruits hopping jumping all over, the game interface is so engrossing that it will keep you engage for whole week doing feeding and different activity. Apart from fruits we also have water polo, tennis, bike game, spider hurdles so on and so forth. Worth mentioning is strawberry which tries its best to avoid being crushed by giant watermelon till it reaches it finishing line.

Google has introduced its search for everything Olympic widget. Where google will be giving you all the information you want via cards. The function of these cards are quite mind boggling as some pop-ups will be displayed as soon as you search for information in google on Olympic events , timings , athlete information and many more.

Animation be its 2D or 3D you can get too see its presence everywhere in our day to day life. Thus we can well understand the openings jobs, opportunity the animation industry has in today’s time. So guys if you still have any doubts in understanding the scope of animation in today’s time just call us we will guide you.

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Animation Movie Mahabharat

Animation is the process of making an illusion of motion and change by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static images different from one other. Animation creation methods include the traditional animation creation method and those involving stop motion animation of two and three-dimensional objects.

Indian animation industry has grown over the years, today at our animation Kolkata blog we will be discussing about one of the most talked about animation movie Mahabharat. This is the most expensive animation movie so far where investment goes to about Rs 50 crore.The movie was directed by Amaan Khan produced by Kushal Kantilal Gada and Dhaval Jayantilal Gada. The usp of the movie was its multi-star cast - the superstar Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan,Sunny Deol , Anil Kapoor etc renowned actor and actress of the Bollywood industry.

Amitabh Bachchan lent his voice to the character of  Bheeshma Pitamah, which coincidentally is the first time he ever has dubbed for an animated character in his career whereas  Anil Kapoor took 15 days to complete his work while Manoj Bajpayee ended up in dubbing for his character in just four days in Future Works Studio in Andheri, Mumbai which was commendable indeed. The character of Duryodh an was dubbed by Jackie Shroff where as Lord Krishna was dubbed by Shatrughan Sinha. The Draupadi was none other than Vidya Balan.The movie had an insurance cover of Rs 50 crore.

The dubbing effect of this Bollywood superstar uplifts this epic movie making the movie extremely enjoyable, and fun watching.Movie got a mixed reaction from the audience , it got a decent opening and the movie made profit on its investment made and created a bench mark for people who wants to step into animation industry and make an career out of it. It was so far the highest earner among the animation movies released so far.

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History of Special Effects in Indian Cinema

The moving images have always surprised its viewers. Moreover, anything impossible can also be achieved by the help of special effects in the cinemas today. First Indian movie with special effect was released in the year 1937 and the name of the popular movie was “Khwaab ki duniya” directed by Vijay Bhatt. As its name suggests”Khwaab” means Dream “Duniya” means World , it a world of dreamer indeed. The special effects director of the movie was Babubhai Mestry, who was  popularly known as India’s Father of Trick Photography. He introduced some of the home grown techniques where he used dim light with black curtain as the background on which objects were given illusion of movement with the help of black thread.

                                                Babubhai Mestry –India’s Father of Trick photography.

In the 1980s India’s first computer graphics facilities came up under the leadership of Prasad Video Digital which later gave birth to Prasad EFX who imported the first film scanners and recorders to India and pioneered the Digital Image Revolution in India. The first complete computer graphic film was a telugu movie “Ammoru” in which the graphics were done by a Hollywood technician.

Lately, very highly proficient organizations in the special effects lineup have emerged in India.  With the gradual evolution of need and availability of cheap labour in Indian, Indian Film Production studios started working for some of the big production houses in Hollywood. Since the year 2000, we have many examples in Indian Cinema with extensive use of special effects, such as Koi mil gaya, Om Shanti Om, Rang De Basanti, Don, Raaz and the list is endless now. These films have been written keeping in mind the state of the art special effects.

In today’s time we cannot even think of making movie, advertisement, without using special effects it has become a part of cinema. People who are aspiring to get into film making as there career should have knowledge of special effects also.

We at Maac Kolkata  do teach our students in MAAC Chowringhee, MAAC Kankurgachi, MAAC Rashbehari, to make Digital films with special effects in it. Our students have won several awards in 24FPS Digital Film Making Category.

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Use of VFX in the movie BAAHUBALI

S. S. Rajamouli Directed movie Baahubali, a Telugu action movie, was the highest grosser Indian movie. INR 120 Crore budget movie earned over INR 600 Crore and became the highest grossing telugu movie of all times. Apart from an interesting story line and strong characterization with combination of the real life and reel life effect turned  Baahubali into a  mind blowing visual effect movie of its time.. The movie had one year pre-production work where in 15000 story board sketches were created which is the highest for any Indian film till today. More than 600 VFX artists worked (which includes Makuta VFX, Prasad EFX, Firefly in Hyderabad, Tau films from Malaysia etc.) for the film to create more than 90 percent visually enhanced shots. V. Srinivas Mohan, a National Award Winner headed as the VFX supervisor. The film boast of 90 percent Computer Generated Imagery works which accounts for 2500 VFX shots. Makuta VFX was chosen as the main visual effects studio and was responsible for more than 50 percent of the CGI in the film.


This is the VFX breakdown of the Movie Baahubali- The Beginning by Makuta VFX:

In this shot Shivgami is saving the baby, the water has been enhanced by VFX generated waterfalls. This famous shot was originally shot with a bottle of mineral water in Shivgami’s hand above the water.

This heart dropping shot in which Prabhas is hanging from the rock was actually VFX generated. Originally Prabhas was lifted by crane to give a shot of rock climbing.

While we saw Prabhas hoping and jumping over the branches in the jungle on big screen, in reality Prabhas was just hoping over a giant log with green screen in the background.


Feeling very honored to say that we at, MAAC Chowringhee, MAAC Kankurgachi, MAAC Rashbehari welcomed Mr. Sanath P. C., the founder and VFX supervisor by profession of The Firefly Studios, whose special effects are also seen in the Movie “Baahubali – The Beginning”, visited our center in the month of July 2015. A grand Seminar was organized by our director, Mr. Naveen Choudhary in honour of Mr. Sanath P.C so that he can discuss and shre his experience with students of Maac Kolkata. He discussed many things with us regarding the making of Baahubali and Magadheera.

He ended his discussion with a note of appreciation saying“A big thanks for inviting me. It was wonderful to spend time with MAAC  students and the team here” – Mr, Sanath P. C. We felt  truly blessed.

Indian Gaming Industry Is At The Verge of Getting Major Makeover

Gaming industry is a billion dollar industry but its potential has always been underestimated due to its lack of awareness among the people. But the now the tables have turned due to penetration of smartphone and easy accesses to internet, gaming now have gained popularity as a form of entertainment in India. The developers in India are reaching new horizon of global glory. Let’s have an overview of the Indian gaming industry, its market and salary trends, market indicator and its overall journey.

India is third largest country holding a large population of mobile subscribers. It ranks second in world in terms of population, two third of which is below 35 of age. It all started in late 90’s when companies like India Games , Paradox Lakshya Digital started working on international games and introduced gaming to artist, animators and engineers.

By 2005 the industry experienced an accelerated revolution when domestic companies like Nazara Technologies, Yellow Monkey and Games to win started casual games on feature phones and social gaming on websites. In addition to this international studios like Glu, Ubisoft , Zynga also established their studios and backend operations in India.

In 2010 with emergence of smartphones in the country small gaming studios have evolved into big players. Today there are around 300 gaming studios running successfully across the metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune, some of them having merely a team of 10.

According to a report, India has a huge potential for successful career in gaming industry. Around 354 million users have access to internet and due to increase in availability of cheap Smartphone’s this number is all set to grow 15 % by 2017.

The mobile gamings have deepened its roots with the free 2 way model. Among the favorites are Arcade games followed by Puzzle, Race Sports, Shooter and Casino. On the other hand casual games like Farmville and Candy Crush have gained popularity amongst the female users.

P.C gaming have user base of around 1 million to 1.5 million active followers. The industry is predicted to have continuous growth at a faster rate and thus creating a sustainable business of the new genre.

 MAAC’s DGDI provides holistic courses to the students keen on having career in creating and designing video games. The course focuses on developing imaginative and creative thinking as a process of talent development. Our application based teaching inculcates the art of storytelling which improves the gaming experience and helps students to establish themselves as gaming experts and professionals.

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