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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 rob74 »

pen2l wrote: post #41
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

I saw it in imax at the insistence of an acquaintance. While watching I kept thinking: "ok, so this is the results when you have a massive budget, access to lots of designers and top-of-the-line tools". I'm totally thunderstruck to learn it was all done in Blender pipeline. Bravo for making this possible.

Speaking of "lots of designers": while everything else looks very realistic to me, that tram (I think it's a tram) in the motorbike chase scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbuZQTud7YE&t=85s) looks very odd. A low floor tram in the 1920s? Is that based on any real model? Also, the overhead wire seems to be just hanging there in mid air while the poles that are actually supposed to support it are off to the side...

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by geodel »

echelon wrote: post #175
bozhark wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Americans are paid a higher wage. Dollar goes further with exchanges

> Americans are paid a higher wage. For now. The rest of the world is rapidly catching up in pretty much every sphere. But take movies: America has but a paltry 330 M people. The appetite for "American" media will wane as India, China, and other vastly more populous Asian countries begin to produce Hollywood-caliber films. American box office increasingly relies on non-domestic consumption. Chinese films are doing bi…

Those 330 million have highest spending capacity in the world so that makes big difference.

Are those Chinese movies making big revenues outside China? Until that happens they are just catering local market. So far Chinese movies successful in China or Chinese speaking population. I think it is just logical thing not world changing.

One can also read about Indian movie economics where movies with massive budgets sank like giant turds. Clueless directors in India are shocked that their successful formula of movies is failing so badly.

Kids today also do not want to be doctors, should I be worried that no one will be there to treat my old ass very soon?

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by lizardactivist »

It's very cool to see Blender grow bigger each year and moving into the mainstream movie production.

I can recommend Blender Bob's YouTube channel, he has worked in the VFX industry for many years and primarily uses Blender and shows how VFX is made:

https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderBob

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by ricardobeat »

rob74 wrote: post #201
pen2l wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw it in imax at the insistence of an acquaintance. While watching I kept thinking: "ok, so this is the results when you have a massive budget, access to lots of designers and top-of-the-line tools". I'm totally thunderstruck to learn it was all done in Blender pipeline. Bravo for making this possible.

Speaking of "lots of designers": while everything else looks very realistic to me, that tram (I think it's a tram) in the motorbike chase scene ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbuZQTud7YE&t=85s ) looks very odd. A low floor tram in the 1920s? Is that based on any real model? Also, the overhead wire seems to be just hanging there in mid air while the poles that are actually supposed to support it are off to the side…

Haha, good catch. Would be nice to have floating tram lines.

In this other shot (https://youtu.be/wbuZQTud7YE?t=94) you can see there are actually support lines, but they have been "eaten" by the post-processing.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by xnyan »

unmole wrote: post #179
xmonkee wrote: post #157

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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/

Vox is just cookoo. Jacobin on the other hand is full on deranged.

What organizations do you consider to be sane, rational center/center-left (vox) and leftist (jacobin) media? Is it possible you consider every leftest media outlet between cookoo and deranged?

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by blihp »

bsder wrote: post #185
NavinF wrote: post #84

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Some blockers I've encountered after spending a lot of time in FreeCAD: - No built-in assembly workbench. If you create more than 1 object, there is no way to align/attach them together. There are several competing, incompatible, and buggy plugins. - Topological naming problem is way worse than in paid CAD software. It's very difficult to edit old constraints without breaking new actions as they're replayed: https://…

> Topological naming problem is way worse than in paid CAD software. It's very difficult to edit old constraints without breaking new actions as they're replayed: https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Topological_naming_problem This is the single, number one, absolute must fix problem in FreeCAD. All other FreeCAD work should stop until this gets fixed. Period. Broken constraints were bad enough, but as an amateur I could live…

I agree that this is the biggest blocker, though I wouldn't go so far as to say stay away from it. Rather it is one of the most important things one needs to understand (trust me, you will after you've run into it a few times) when using this tool and design around it. Unfortunately, this limitation renders the tool far less powerful than it could be otherwise.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by amelius »

If only 10% of the efforts going into special effects these days went into the actual story ...

Eye candy can contribute only so much to a movie. Spend 10x the budget on special effects and the movie will get at most 1% better, sometimes it gets even worse. Superman 1 was much more enjoyable than most movies that came out of Marvel the last years.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by rustedspoon »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #24
gernb wrote: post #12

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I enjoyed it. In fact it might be the best Indian movie I've seen in terms of just being interesting all the way through. I'm curious what if any serious Indian movies there are. Are they common or rare? Pretty much every Indian movie I've seen is full of amazing and fun nonsense in one form or another. Not that I've seen more than 10 or 15 Indian movies, just curious what the mix is of serious drama vs, break into d…

"The Kashmir Files" is the most serious movie in the recent past.

Not sure why this is in gray. It has the highest collections in 2022 after rrr. And highest among Bollywood movies so far. Clearly people liked it and it’s a very serious movie.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by rootw0rm »

js2 wrote: post #108

This movie is apparently available to U.S. audiences only on Netflix with a Hindi dub. I'd really like to see it in its original language with English subtitles. As well, the total size of the UHD stream is about 14 GB which isn't going to be the best quality for a 3 hour runtime. https://old.reddit.com/r/Bluray/comments/v3fzni/rrr_bluray/ I'll watch it anyway. Looks like a fun time.

I think I had a hard time finding Enthiran in it's original Tamil when it first came out, too.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by coldtea »

majormajor wrote: post #195
echelon wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Americans are paid a higher wage. For now. The rest of the world is rapidly catching up in pretty much every sphere. But take movies: America has but a paltry 330 M people. The appetite for "American" media will wane as India, China, and other vastly more populous Asian countries begin to produce Hollywood-caliber films. American box office increasingly relies on non-domestic consumption. Chinese films are doing bi…

> The age of the "American" film has already peaked. (It's not just the market growing up. Kids today no longer want to be Hollywood stars - they want to be famous on YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch.) Currently a big next step for TikTok stars is moving into Hollywood stuff - Addison Rae, the D'Amelios - just like it was for the Kardashians a couple decades ago. Even as you talk about American films doing less at the box…

>Currently a big next step for TikTok stars is moving into Hollywood stuff - Addison Rae, the D'Amelios - just like it was for the Kardashians a couple decades ago.

Waning once-huge markets still attract up and comers because of the residual prestige and money - but same newcomers get their popularity from outside those markets, and people wanting to be like them are from the outside too...

But it's not about the actual values but about the momentum...

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