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Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by dagmx »

dang wrote: post #92
dagmx wrote: post #30

Title is misleading. It was made primarily in Blender but not entirely in it. From the article > Blender was used in our entire pipeline aside from the FX department Houdini was likely used for FX work since Blender isn’t quite competitive with it yet. Additionally, this is about a single studio’s pipeline and not reflective of all the total work involved.

Fixed now. Thanks! (Submitted title was "Visual Effects for the Indian Blockbuster “RRR” made entirely in Blender".)

Thanks for consistently being on top of submissions , even on the weekend :-)

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by unmole »

random314 wrote: post #129
dagmx wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s highly enjoyable though it is also very nationalist propaganda in parts, which foreigners won’t pick up on. For the most part it never becomes an issue because the brunt of the movie is fighting colonialism and therefore quite appropriate and incredibly good. The end credit scene is the only part that I’d consider problematic from a messaging standpoint as it takes a hard line on who they celebrate and isn’t sub…

+1 on that. I only watched the action sequences in the movie as RRR is not the kind if movie I enjoy. But the end of the movie, makes it quite clear that it is a nod to right wing Hindu nationalism. The most pointed example is the exclusion, in the end credits, of the 2 biggest icons of Indian liberation - Mahatma Gandhi and the first prime minister Nehru( the British locked him up for over a decade) who were secular…

> At this point, it seems that the exclusion of muslims, sikhs and some Christians etc. From the script as freedom fighters seems deliberate.

It's a fantasy based very loosely on two historical characters. Bheem for the bulk of the movie pretends to be a Muslim and is sheltered by a Muslim family that knows his true identity. Claiming that this somehow excludes non-Hindus is farcical.

> Bheem is a nod to lower caste icon bhimrao Ambedkar

Bheem is loosely based on Komaram Bheem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komaram_Bheem and Ram is loosely based on Alluri Sitaramaraju: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluri_Sitarama_Raju

You are ignorant of even the basic premise of the movie. But hey, don't let that stop you from theorising grand conspiracies.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by xmonkee »

spaghettiToy wrote: post #3

I hope to have one of these articles about FreeCAD one day. Maybe the stakes are lower for movies than engineering and that's why it hasn't happened yet.

I can't think of another OSS desktop app that comes close to the success of blender and firefox. How did blender do what Gimp etc couldn't?

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by nickhalfasleep »

sizzle wrote: post #141
jwitthuhn wrote: post #31

Excited to see this posted here, I'm the author of the Cycles for Max plugin mentioned in the article. I was delighted when I first heard it was used in RRR. https://cyclesformax.net

This movie looks EPIC where can we stream it??

Netflix

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by Ayesh »

xmonkee wrote: post #153
spaghettiToy wrote: post #3

I hope to have one of these articles about FreeCAD one day. Maybe the stakes are lower for movies than engineering and that's why it hasn't happened yet.

I can't think of another OSS desktop app that comes close to the success of blender and firefox. How did blender do what Gimp etc couldn't?

I'd like to throw in OBS Studio as well. There's absolutely no software even close to the quality and functionality of it.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by xmonkee »

mikymoothrowa wrote: post #121
pessimizer wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine thinking that about those boring-ass centrist websites.

imagine thinking these websites are centrist because you have more ridiculous extremist websites on the left and the right.

Vox is literally the definition of neolib trash. I don't understand how you can call it far left. People on the left don't actually mind the label, but don't call shitlib stuff far left. The left is explicitly opposed to neoliberalism. If you wanna read something actually on the left: https://jacobin.com/

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by bozhark »

dereg wrote: post #97
blackoil wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The budget of ~60 million is huge by Indian standard not by Hollywood where >200 million is now increasingly common.

A good chunk of that goes to actor pay. For instance, in the $200m budgeted Gray Man, Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans took home $20m each. Even net those two salaries, Gray Man was twice the budget of RRR and visually pales in comparison to it. Huge budgets mean nothing.

Americans are paid a higher wage.

Dollar goes further with exchanges

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by ZiiS »

tooltower wrote: post #132
tomcam wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. The movie was very fun and it was plainly obvious to me that they had a giant budget for crowds, visual effects, etc. Gobsmacked that this was an all-Blender operation.

I'm confused. What does budget have to do with using Blender? I thought a big movie budget is needed mainly for the labor and artistry, and comparatively little goes into software licensing. Is that not the case?

Plenty of good films have been made with very small budgets. If you are shooting on a consumer DSLR or even phones then Blender is a godsend.

If you have RRR's budget you can easily waste more money explaining to the lawyers and accountants that something is free. The decisions is purly on which software is better.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by firasd »

pdntspa wrote: post #85
krama wrote: post #46

Who cares if they used Blender or Maya. As an Indian (and a South Indian at that), I must say I’m embarrassed at the level of attention this movie is getting for its over the top use of cringey special effects. There are so many other worthwhile Indian films to watch and enjoy.

The effects sequences I saw in the video clip didn't look over the top... Besides what's wrong with a little ridiculousness? Some of the special FX I've seen in memes of indian movies look like they take a decent amount of imagination to visualize Note that I have not seen any indian cinema, no idea where to start with that, other than to say that the Bollywood format (and musicals in general) has little appeal to me…

Bollywood movies aren't really musicals. The way I would put it is that musicals are a genre, and Bollywood movies are all sorts of genres with songs interspersed. So you could literally edit out (or more practically, forward through) all the songs and fully watch the movie which is not really possible with musicals
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