Web Series VFX Supervisor

Visual Effects Solutions from Pre to Post

This series is an absolute visual feast, with a tons of VFX packed into every episode.

As always, one of the biggest challenges we tackled was crowd multiplication, along with animals in war sequences and we relied on serious VFX magic to make it happen. We needed to create huge crowds of Army and animals for some of the big scenes of this web series, such as the war and fight sequences of War, and the arena sequence in episode 2 of Taj.

However, with great planning at the pre-production stage along with series director Ron, I was confident that we could pull it off and make it look seamless. Under Ron’s direction we use to do lot of pre-production meeting. Each scene was pre-planned and discussed with the Ron as per his vision, he is great director and it was my pleasure working with him.

He is well-versed in visual effects planning and the amount of effort required for doing VFX in post, and he always provided a free hand to conceptualize the VFX in the right way & on request even the producer – Abhimanyu Singh allowed setting up the separate pre-production setup, where initially we created many storyboards for most of the scenes. 

The war sequence was huge & we all knew this is very important for this series, with the formation of an army, elephants, camels, horses, crowd multiplication, explosions, and Army/crowd chaos all over the place. We planned to execute it with a mix of practical effects and traditional VFX to make it look as realistic as possible.

we shot the Elephants, camels in Rajasthan, the Army Plates were shot in our in-house studio Quantiloe  Pictures at aamgaon.

I personally loved the Bala Hissar fort, as it came out well, just as I had imagined from the planning stage. I still remember sharing the first sketch after researching about Bala Hissar with Ron at the storyboard level, and he was very happy looking at the fort’s design at the pre-production stage.

After the fort design was locked, we created many extensive matte paintings to showcase some of the amazing locations in the web series. with smart shooting techniques we could establish many shots which looked fight is happening on different part of Bala Hisar fort, That’s the Magic of VFX

We wanted to transport viewers to different parts of the world and make them feel like they were really there, so we put a ton of effort into creating these stunning landscapes.

Overall, I am excited to have been a part of this project and enjoyed my role as VFX Creative Director and VFX Supervisor. The post-production team at Illusion Reality did an great job in making it seamless, and I was always confident that some truly breathtaking visuals were possible with great planning and execution.

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