STORY: Baahubali, And The Helpful Ghosts
on Jul 22, 2015
Seen are the actors, technicians, creative team and marketing heads, but unseen are those fight masters, their ropes, visual effects teams and the artists who rendered 3D stuff for the film. Especially if it comes to “Baahuabli”, almost every frame of this film will look like a skeleton hadn’t the Computer Graphics team filled it with flesh and muscles. Shouldn’t we call them the ghosts that helped this giant vessel soar across seas with a roaring noise and thumping its heart with a warrior like punch?
By this time, all those waterfalls in Karnataka are getting searched by people on Google as they knew that Baahubali was shot there. Magnanimous are those falls, but they are just couple of metres in length. It’s the work of visual effects department that has extended the water fall for kilometres on silver screen. When people saw Tamanna and Prabhas drifting in the snow as an avalanche strikes them, only some close shots belong to Bulgaria schedule, rest of the snow-river is created digitally in Hyderabad. As Devasena flashes strands of her white hair and then flaunts her scary face, it’s tough to believe that it is Anushka. Yes, it is tough, because VFX guys have digitally added white fair and also made her makeup so scary to simulate a feel of not bathing for almost 20 years.
We know it is Ramoji Film City where Baahubali’s kingdom existed, but all those gigantic palaces, altars, high rises and roofs are handwork of another visual effects company. Of course, no animal is injured during the shot, but Rana has to kill a bison know? We have these ghosts called visual effects, and a studio from Malaysia has done the whole sequences. Sword flinging, raining of arrows, catapulting of iron balls, fire, blood, flesh and chopped body parts are all a decent show put up by VFX teams.
Including Makuta in Hyderabad, we have studios like Firefly, Prasad EFX, Ming Studios and others working on the graphics of Baahubali for years, in order to deliver such a visual wonder. These are helpful ghosts who have recreated every single visual for the flick. Take a bow guys!!