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Tata Elxsi renders visual effects to 'Jodha Akbar'
By siliconindia
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Friday, 22 February 2008, 22:57 IST
New Delhi: Visual Computing Labs (VCL), a division of Tata Elxsi, has announced that it has rendered the exclusive visual effects for the movie 'Jodha Akbar'. A whole year of post production and over one hundred artists from VCL helped make give this epic drama a large scale canvas that has not been seen in Indian cinema so far.
Focused on providing world-class, quality animation (2D and 3D), special effects, and gaming services to customers world wide, VCL has combined creativity and technology for Jodha Akbar, said a press release.
"Ashutosh Gowarikar, the director and co-producer of Jodha Akbar, discussed the visual effects of the movie with Tata Elxsi way back in 2005. With an experienced team of artists and advanced CG filmmaking technology and techniques, VCL has been able to restore the long lost splendor of the 16th century Mughal dynasty, said Pankaj Khandpur, Creative Director, Visual Computing Labs, Tata Elxsi."
Over 200 shots were meticulously planned during pre production in computer-generated imagery (CGI) for the three battle sequences in the movie. Wherever the camera movement was complicated and the existing layers proved inadequate VCL built the soldiers in CGI using crowd duplication software.
Additionally, all the arrows were hand animated in CGI and put into the battle sequences. Dust was added digitally to enhance the feeling of scale to the battle sequences and then the ground was strewn with dead bodies and vultures in the sky all done in CGI to show the devastation after a heavy battle.