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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 ekianjo »

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

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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…

thats a ridiculous extrapolation. china makes movies for China that nobody virtually cares about outside because they are so bad and so nationalistic. The same with Bollywood movies thats as much about dancing than the movie themselves.

the exception is Korea but here too they make movies for themselves that also happen to resonate well with western audiences.

nobody is going to take over the place of hollywood anytime soon.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by SanjayMehta »

rustedspoon wrote: post #208
SanjayMehta wrote: post #24

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"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.

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Post by chinabot »

dagmx wrote: post #34
vipa123 wrote: post #5

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Is it any good?

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…

Great Movie. Nice to see us British from the anti-colonial standpoint, we always get cast as the nice guys but we have a shit ton of historical baggage, I think we deserve the odd movie payback to even things out.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by chinabot »

blackoil wrote: post #96
hermitcrab wrote: post #42

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Obviously that is highly subjective. I really liked it, as did my 16 year old son. Although, being British, it was weird to see my countrymen as the cartoon baddies[1]. It is completely over the top and fantastical. But that is part of the appeal. I thought it made a very refreshing change from hollywood movies. [1] Not without reason. Read up on the depradations of the East India company

Random digression. In wake of recent demise of the Queen, good curious how much do British see the colonion past as glorious and how much as a dark legacy?

Unless you were a baron or a lord, I doubt many British people got any benefit. Britain and most of its old colonies are pretty multi-cultural now (more so than any other countries colonies) I think that and standard english are probably the only real benefits we can see today.

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Post by mkl »

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.

A single studio of many. From Wikipedia: "Srinivas Mohan is the visual effects supervisor of the film, along with Framestore and the Moving Picture Company (MPC), the film's principal visual effects studio.[112] Alzahra VFX, NY VFXWaala, Redefine, Knack Studios, Makuta VFX, Digital Domain, Rhythm and Hues Studios, Method Studios, Rodeo FX, Technicolor VFX, Legend3D, The Third Floor, Inc, Clear Angle Studios, Halon Entertainment, 4DMax, and Cinesite, among others, are responsible for some of the other visual effects in the film."

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Post by b112 »

geodel wrote: post #202
echelon wrote: post #175

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> 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…

As long as the Chinese government controls/censors scripts, they won't move beyond Chinese borders much.

In fact, there is more control in this regard lately.

Hong Kong had a nice international movie market, especially for action flicks, but that's dead now.

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Post by imwillofficial »

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

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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…

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Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by imwillofficial »

coldtea wrote: post #211
otikik wrote: post #190

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Isn’t that a bit like saying that Australians are great at playing piano and singing songs and cracking jokes about religion because Tim Minchin exists?

No, it's more like observing that a region with 30%+ of the world's population is rising (economically, influence, cultural appeal wise, and so in) and another with a paltry 350M one appears to have had its heyday... The US had a couple of Tim Minchins back in the 18th century too, and even up to the early 20th century it wasn't that much of a deal in terms of global cultural cachet. As for GDP terms it only surpasse…

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Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by Daub »

Etheryte wrote: post #15
Daub wrote: post #8

Love Blender, but in my experience, the biggest advantage that 3DS Max has over Blender is its ability to handle massive scenes. In VFX, especially those involving explosions, dust, crowds and suchlike, this can be a deal breaker.

You clearly haven't watched the movie mentioned in the article. Most of the movie is massive scenes including exactly the kind of elements you described.

If you look closely at the Blender file in the example, you will see that some geometry elements in the Outliner feature a small icon that looks like a chain. This signifies that it is referencing (linking in Blender parlance) that geometry in other files. Linked files cannot be edited unless you round-trip to the original files. Max would not have this problem.

Sorry if I came off as anti-Blender, but I am anything but. I have written over 100 pages of open-access Blender related learning material and was responsible for moving our school (400 design students) from max and Maya to Blender. No one regrated this move, even those who have spent their entire creative lives in Autodesk's shadow. However, it was not without cost.

My top animator loves Blender, but says that its animation tools are not yet equal to those of Max/maya. And Max/maya can crease through files which Blender (currently) chokes on.

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