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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Agomoni - Student Art Exhibition

Agomoni - As the name means is  ‘A warm welcome to the mother’. Its a grand celebration of welcoming goddess Durga and her children to our home. 

We celebrate Agomoni in all our three centers - MAAC Chowringhee, MAAC Kankurgachi, MAAC Rashbehari with extreme enthusiasm, where the students play the leading role in the preparation of decorating their respective centers thematically. Perhaps, this is the biggest celebration that we have at MAAC KOLKATA which continues for two days.The most beautiful part of this celebration is the preparation and planning phase of this festival, and that is no way less than a festival itself in terms of excitement.It gives  immense pleasure to think of the days when students start the countdown towards the D-day. Our  heart fills with prayers, love happiness of welcoming someone very near.

During the celebration,  students’ organise art exhibition in all our three centers, where the students give their best effort to design their skill digitally or manually.  On the opening day diyas are lightened by the elder-most member of our MAAC KOLKATA family which resembles the enlightenment of knowledge over the darkness. Then the Director appreciates and rewards the most beautiful works by students. And the day ends by the students’ performances on their talents like singing, dancing, acting etc. Even parents, family members, relatives, friends are invited to be the part of the celebration.

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Latest Techniques used in 2D and 3D Animation

When the first ever five minute film, Steamboat Willie was released by Walt Disney he never thought that his animation based would form the basis of an entire industry, encouraging new styles in 2D & 3D animation.  The industry has grown since then, both in terms of application and importance in a variety of fields such as entertainment, education, medicine etc. The government and the private sector funded several institutes for the development of innovative techniques to bring objects to life on 2d and 3D screens.

It is now possible to create facial animation using the recent advancements in computer technologies. Before this phase the characters’ faces were nothing more than hand down painting sequences of images to create the illusion of movement. Now in the new era the modern research and development of computer graphics has come to a stage where producers can create climatic wonders such as Avatar. Facial animation has made its place and has come a long way. Sparse Stereo Mesh is a creative technique that has made it possible for animation come close to real life. This technique was made to drive facial contour by reading data from customised markers, kept on the face, with the help of camera lens. The three dimensional mesh of facial information is the incoming data which is then processed on the 3D mesh in the application.

Today, a large number of advanced techniques are implemented for character animation. Every production studio from Pixar to Light & Magic are inspired by Skeleton based animation and motion capture advance methods. Skeleton based animation possesses a hierarchal order of the anatomy of the character that involves a ground plane. Which further allows the physics to take over when the character is set into motion.

Motion capture advance is a tool for character animation while working with 2D and 3D space. That further enables artists to realistically capture character motion.

In the animation industry 2D and 3D techniques have come a long way.  

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Big Animation Studios Versus Indie Production

In the 1980s, the release of blockbuster animations, like who framed Roger Rabbit, Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros came up and they started hiring artists and designers from every corner of the globe. European artists started hiring kids from colleges and some even before graduation. Big and major production houses began to increase the staff numbers, buying properties and paying magnificent salaries. And soon after these artists became hot commodities.

But the glamour is never permanent, soon the things began to feel formulaic and studios fell into trap.  The big studio system lost sight of the story. With the bigger budgets nobody wanted to take a chance with the creative process. In this scenario, independent studios & production houses started making movie and benefited from the audience’s demand for something different.

Now the independent artists are setting up their personal studios in their homes and animators, who used to work for big production houses are now appearing as production heads of their own studios.

Studios started finding cost effective ways of producing their work and began looking overseas by the year 2000. Due to the decrease in staff requirement many artists left out of work. During this period the Troy Story released and made money at the box office and other major studios had realization that collaborating with some of the new, slick CGI studios could be advantageous.

Indies, also known as independent studios started putting up their own films. During the first decade of the millennium, the independent production company rush was the trend that had captured the attention of mainstream audiences across the world.

Indie production companies are now emerging in great numbers due to technological progress that has created an entirely different setup of the animation studio. It is more efficient to set up a studio where all the equipment's of production could comfortably be installed on one workstation. Indeed it seems the crop of indie production companies has grown continuing to have smaller budgets.  

Diversification added to this process further. Considering the vast number of options available today like DVD, video games, commercials, internet, wireless and more, the new emerging consumer arenas like e-learning and ethnic entertainment target markets the scope for indie  production  is growing each day.

No one knows where the story will end. Perhaps this new renaissance of indie productions will give birth to its own list of lessons to be learned and challenges to be faced. But one thing is for sure that it is just the beginning of a new era for the animation paradise.

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