Tollywood Telugu director SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus movie Baahubali has been a blockbuster in the all the major languages it had been released. Baahubali which is being praised and highly acclaimed for it’s computer generated imagery (CGI) and the visual effects has once again mouth off the usage and adaptation of these high end technolohy in Indian cinema.

Puli Mastered Baahubali in Graphics and Visual Effects

Kollywood superstar Vijay whose upcoming fantasy movie ‘Puli’ is delighting the film audiences globally with his charm and the visual effects. Kollywood film sources and the movie makers are reporting that there are even more CGI-generated scenes than Baahubali in Vijay’s Puli.

R C Kamalakannan, CG supervisor of the Vijay’s fantasy flick ‘Puli’ said “When Chimbudevan and I initially designed the film, they wanted to incorporate 2,600 scenes with graphics.” Although the movie crew stated that due to budgetary issues they had to cut it down to 2,200 scenes although they are affirming that his is going to be much more than SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus movie Baahubali.

The vastly experienced graphics expert, R C Kamalakannan, who had earlier worked with Prasad EFX and Makuta VFX on those films said “When we worked on Naan Ee, there were 1,200 scenes and in Magadheera, there were 1,600. So, out of curiosity, I asked Rajamouli how many scenes they had done in CG in Baahubali and he said that it was just about 2,000.”

Graphics expert, Kamalakannan further added that working out of a studio in Keelkattalai was about something 160 freelance animators across the world were involved in different parts of the Vijay film. He said “We have a common workflow management system that allots this work to animators in Russia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Netherlands, Iran and in studios in Chennai and Bangalore. Everybody’s on edge because we are working on a tight timeline and they want the film finished before September.” Vijay’s Puli film producers SKT Studios are speculating to release the movie on September 17 globally to cash in on the Vinayaka Chathurthi weekend.

CGI supervisor Kamalakannan said they have split the work of both gorgeous actresses Shruti Haasan, Hansika Motwani and Sridevi who are portraying different roles in Puli movie along with Vijay. He said “All the major assets are designed by us locally. With Naan Ee it was the fly and in this case it is the palace and mythical kingdom that Vijay is in. Other than that all the other effects and smaller touches are split up and done by the animators in other countries.

Kamalakannan said “We’ve been working on the assets since March 2014, but then they began shooting last November. Whenever they gave us completed frames we would begin work on it. To be honest, everything is a work in progress and there’s no question of finishing it. We’ll just keep on making corrections till it’s time to hand it over! Even with Magadheera, I gave a final version 20 days after the film released. It went on the Blu-ray version,” when he was asked about how much of the work had been completed so far with the movie Puli.

When he was asked about, has the magnum opus movie Bahubali has made them to rethink over their strategy and has it influenced them to come out with a better appealing movie then he responded saying yes. Graphic expert Kamalakannan “There were so many parts of Baahubali where you knew that it was done with graphics. That sort of defeats the purpose because we don’t want people to know which is which. Entire forests, armies, castles and wars may be done with CG but people should think its real. We’re trying to make sure people can’t spot the differences in Puli.”

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