A yoga studio. Candles flickering. A row of mats, a room full of perfect poses, and…
Author: Pooja Raj Thakkar
How He-Man got a digital muscle-up
Picture this. Nicholas Galitzine’s lean frame starts to swell. Bones shift. Tendons pull tight. Veins rise…
Redchillies.vfx moves from the cutting room to the story room
Keitan Yadav wants Indian visual effects in the film before the first camera rolls, not after…
Canada’s cartoon incubator heads to Cannes with India on its mind
Every October the Croisette in Cannes in the south of France fills with buyers clutching lanyards…
From temple town to tinseltown
A story can sit inside a culture for centuries, painted on temple walls and sung at…
‘Baahubali’, but make it animated
“Baahubali has such a passionate fan base that there’s a constant awareness of not wanting to…
Why 28 charms became a big CFX challenge in ‘Forgotten Island’
We all have that one person we can call our comfort couch. The one friend who…
How Assemblage brought the werewolves, weresharks and dark magic of ‘Wolf King’ S2 to life
There are easier ways to make a fantasy series than filling it with werewolves, lionlords, shark-shifting…
In the shadow of the Himalayas, the sixth Dalai Lama’s story comes alive through animation
Every mountain keeps a secret. Some are hidden in stone. Others survive in prayer. And then…
How a childhood memory in Kerala became the soul of a short animated film, ‘Blu’s’
The tree is gone. In its place: a building, a road, something useful. Nobody held a…
Vaibhav Studios’ ‘Return Of The Jungle’ shows the power of homegrown storytelling
India has stories to spare. They have travelled by word of mouth for millennia, through the…
Prince charming can wait
Every girl grows up with an idea of what her ideal man should look like. When…