Visual
Computing Labs (VCL), a division of Tata Elxsi Ltd, Located in mumbai,
has rendered the visual effects for one of the most talked about
films recently, 'Jodha Akbar'. The entire film has more than
1000 shots in 45 minutes of fairly intensive VFX work. All techniques
right from rotoscopy, paints, CGI, crowd duplication, animation,
etc have been used in the film. Many of the camels, horses etc are
computer generated (CG). The arrows, explosions too have been created
at Tata Elxsi.
"Working
on Jodha Akbar was a very satisfying experience. It was good
to have enough time to experiment, since it was not a film where
a very quick job was required. In such scenarios we can put our
entire focus on a single project," shared Pankaj Khandpur,
Creative Director, Visual Computing Labs, Tata Elxsi, speaking with
AnimationXpress.com.
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When
asked about the challenges that they faced while working on it,
he said, "One of the major challenges was creating the battle
sequences out of nothing. Especially hundreds and thousands of soldiers,
that had to be done on a fairly large scale CGI. We had to animate
a lot of stuff and then fit them in the real shots which comprised
of the actors."
Khandpur
elaborated that the film has been majorly shot in actual locations.
"Restorations have been done or work was in progress in a number
of places. When they had to depict the Amer fort, exteriors of the
actual Amer fort was shot, thus many of the forts shown are real
forts. But many of them are in ruins currently and there are civilizations
all around them. When we see the aerial view, there is the whole
of modern Jaipur city all around the forts. But during the Mughal
era, obviously this was not the case. Our team of modellers and
texture artists did a lot of CGI restoration work for these forts
using high-resolution digital images and textures. We mapped the
structures to blend in seamlessly with the existing fort or palace."
"Initially
we hadn't realized that the work would be so huge. The issue was
that, for example: the Amer fort was built some centuries ago, but
after that there has been a lot of work done on it first by the
subsequent families, then by the British and then by the Archeological
department. The challenge for us was to restore it exactly to the
time during which the said story of Akbar was based, that is, in
the 16th century," he shared.
When
asked about the research done before and while working on the project,
Khandpur replied that apart from the deep research done by Jodha
Akbar director Ashutosh Gowariker, there was a team from IIT
Kanpur which shot images at the actual sites, and studied and researched
the same. He added that the team advised VCL on which buildings
could be retained and in what shape and which had to be removed.
Telling
us about the association with Gowariker, Khandpur said that "Ashutosh
was there for each and every shot. We were together location-hunting
for the battles, armies, palaces and forts. Hence, we could decide
on which wall could be removed, what effect had to be given where,
since the beginning.
"We
haven't used any green screens since Ashutosh wanted real locations.
So, there was a middle way sorted, where shootings were carried
out in real locations while we did all the touch ups with rotoscope.
In fact a lot of duplication was done by cutting the frame by hand
instead of using chroma key since it has some limitations. It took
a lot of time to do the cut outs manually with frame by frame roto,
but it gave an amazing result. Large tracts of ground had to be
cleared of all modern day traces, most apparent being tyre marks
of vehicles. Dust was added digitally to enhance the feeling of
scale to the battle sequences and then the ground was strewn with
bodies and vultures in the sky all done in CGI to show the devastation
after a heavy battle," added Khandpur.
After
four months of research and pre production, eight months were dedicated
for intensive VFX production for the movie. At the peak of production
work, about 100 people were working at a time, said Khandpur.
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