Needless to say that the Brahmastra – Part One: Shiva movie is a visual extravaganza. This Indian fantasy film transports its audiences to a magical world of superheroes, ancient legends, mystical powers, with chart buster songs. The ensemble cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Nagarjuna and Mouni Roy did full justice to their respective characters, which were supported by astonishing VFX of Brahmastra. The film follows the journey of Shiva (Ranbir Kapoor), a young man with mystical powers, and his friends as they battle against the dark forces to protect the world.
The magic of Brahmastra went very well as a full entertainment package. The film got negative criticism due to its dialogues. But, otherwise the visual spectacle is applauded worldwide. In a nutshell, it is a fantasy film that blends Indian mythology, superhero elements, and sci-fi concepts.
Brahmastra will always be remembered as one of the best VFX movies of Indian Film Industry which pushed the boundaries of visual storytelling in a commercially successful manner.
VFX of Brahmastra
DNEG (Double Negative) and ReDefie (RD) studios used all latest and cutting edge 3D Animation and VFX techniques to bring its magical world of Astraverse to life. They articulately delivered Director Ayan Mukerji‘s vision of such ambitious storyline into the silver screen. They created a magnificent world of Astraverse with top notch VFX, which actually narrate the story and helped for character development. So, it was not a forceful visual effects any more. Visual Effects were compelling the screenplay and helped to push the storytelling.
The biggest challenge was to create an unique yet believable Astraverse universe. To be very honest, the studios were directly competing with internationally acclaimed projects of Marvel, DC, Sony, Disney, Warner Bros. and more. Indian audiences has seen Avengers, Avatar 1, The Jungle Book, Matrix series and many more movies which are heavily based on superior 3D Animation and Visual Effects.
The mammoth task was to stand strong in front of such international giants in terms of quality. Another challenge was to make it seamless experience of compositing of live action shooting plates and CGI elements. Both the studios nailed it beautifully by mastering the art of blending reality and fantasy.
The success of Brahmastra has opened up new possibilities for the future of Animation and VFX in the Indian Cinema Industry.
What is DNEG Deep Dive?
DNEG DeepDive is an unique initiative which shares the technical knowledge to novice and experienced artists. The leading Post Production Studio conducts a webinar with its own technical team who has actually worked on the respective movies. So, it gives proper insights of the entire production and post production pipeline. They also showcase before after and behind the scenes of the film. Hence, these sessions are named as ‘Deep Dive’.
‘Into The Astraverse: The VFX of Brahmastra’ is their latest edition. As name suggests, this webinar will broadly focus on the cutting-edge tools and techniques used in making of Brahmastra movie. You will learn how they did the act of balancing realism and imagination.
The film’s VFX team is led by industry veterans who have worked on numerous Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters. The team includes DNEG VFX Supervisors Jaykar Arudra, George Murphy and Alexander Seaman. They will join ReDefine VFX Supervisor Viral Thakkar. Combinedly, they set a new benchmark for visual storytelling for our very own industry.
The team used a variety of techniques including roto, paint, matte painting, green screen (chroma), matchmoving, compositing of live action and 3D renders (CGI elements), motion graphics and motion capture to create a stunning visual experience. You will see exclusive behind the scenes, making of and before after of Brahmastra movie.
At the end of this technical session, online participants can ask their queries during the Q&A.
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Details of ‘Into The Astraverse: The VFX of Brahmastra’ webinar
Date: 21st February, Tuesday, 2023
Time: 2 pm IST / 8:30 am GMT / 12:30 am PST / 3:30 am ET
Duration: 1 hour
Venue: Online
Price: Free
Webinar registration link
The online webinar is capped for 3000 participants only. The recorded version of the webinar will be provided to people who couldn’t attend it. Click the link below and register asap.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/into-the-astraverse-the-vfx-of-brahmastra-registration-540274093357
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