We were wondering if we can get featured on your platform? We used Blender to do VFX work for the movie Kalki 2898 AD, we have done 80+ shots using Blender, attaching a YouTube link for our showreel on our YouTube channel.
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Excellent work!
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Get involved in the BA community and your work will be recognized and praised for sure.
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Okay, first of all thanks for swift reply. So should I make a post instead of just sharing YouTube video link? What I mean by post is like a breakdown blog with images of the work we did and itâs breakdown.
Weâre among 3d enthusiasts here. Any information on the achievement of a project is interesting.
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Some things (just an image or a video without extra material) get nominated because they possess enough inherent âwow! more people should see this!â to motivate a Level-3 member to add it to the nomination/voting private thread.
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Other things, even if they are not quite so visually stunning, get nominated because the poster did a detailed breakdown of their methods, project history, decision-making-process. They explain at least some aspects of the particular piece of artwork or its process, so that the rest of us can learn from their experience.
I just watched your video. Without giving away too much (if the movie is not yet released), questions come to mind:
- What is this movie about? (1-2 sentence log-line description?)
- Who is producing the movie? If I donât know their name already, is this their first film or 23rd?
- When will it be released (or is it out already)?
- Where will it be released? Can we expect to see this all over the world? or is it a film for a particular national film market?
- Who is we? Are you 2 humans working on personal laptops? Or are you a team of 100 VFX artists in a glass-and-steel work-building? Are you all VFX artists? Or are you a team of diversely qualified 3d artists? (modelers, riggers, animators, VFX artists, compositors, sound & music composers, editors, mixing-engineersâŚ)
- Aside from blender, did you use any other software?
- What hardware was used for rendering & compositing? How long did this take? (ie; âwe produced a total of 200 seconds of rendered video, and it was going to take 4 years to render on a 1993 Potato-1000 computer system, but we crowd-funded 3-more hamster-wheels to allow more overclocking, so it ended up taking only 3 years.â).
- Describe the assets used? (âwe created 14 fully rigged character models, 324 pieces of vegetation, 12 sci-fi sets with over 6 additional sculpture and object assets.â)
You donât have to answer all or any of these questions. But this is what watching your video makes me wonder. Is your journey in working on this project something that I could aspire to or learn from?
What you have shown us so far looks very polished and quite professional. 
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The movie is currently (2024 September) streaming on Amazon Prime.
I watched this 3hr movie tonight. IMHO, this movie deserves 
4½ stars out of 5. The only reason I am deducting a ½ star, is because this the first movie of an intended franchise. Not to spoil it, but this excellent movie ends on a serious cliff-hanger. Aaaaaaargh!!! When will the next be out??? grrrr⌠
The movie is spoken mostly in Telugu, but has excellent English subtitles.
I encourage prospective viewers to have familiarized themselves with at least a 1-page summary of The_battle_at_Kurukshetra, a key event in the Mahabharata (Indian Epic). Ashwatthama assumes a central role in this Sci-Fi movie, as a result of that battle. The movie has an overview of the past events (before diving into the future events), but little context is given for those unfamiliar with Hindu traditions.
The Guardian (newpaper) review:
âmaximalist sci-fi epic mixes Mahabharata with Mad Maxâ.
I agree with their assessment, and I found it to be great fun! 
This movie never drags: it has lots of action, chase, and fight scenes. There are lots of likeable and hateable characters. I found the soundtrack music in particular to be absolutely delightful, particularly the use of leitmotifs to underscore the characters.
Now to blenderâŚ
- the entire movie MUST have been green-screen filmed (excepting perhaps some sandy patch of desert, and maybe somewhere deep in the Himalayas for later overlay).
- For live actors, there are perhaps 10 main speaking roles, and another 10-20 speaking bit-parts. I estimate there to have been 100-200 live humans filmed.
- In addition, several characters and lots of guards, henchmen, and robots are animated constructs. Generally well done, but we are blenderistos here.
- To my eye, all of the sets, scenery, vehicles, and many of the props are computer-generated â but they are top-notch well done. Somebody really went to town with cinematic quality CGI.
Iâm going to stab in the dark, and suggest that the computer work for this should have required at least 10âs (up to 100âs?) of CGI professionals, and industrial-scale hardware for rendering. If you randomly chose 1 frame every 2-5 minutes, the quality of individual frames seems to be sufficient for posting here on blenderartists.org as finished artwork stills. This is technically a really well-made movie. 
That leads me back to my original list of questions:
- Who is the OP? What team does @GraniteImagery represent? What is the composition of the team?
- How much of this movie is specifically @GraniteImagery 's work?
- Please describe the process, techniques, software, hardware used.
Thanks for helping me find a fun, enjoyable, well-made movie to watch!!
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I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!
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