Deconstructing the VFX of Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai : Bollywood News

The scene where a cricket match was being played in the movie at Sharjah UAE was completely remade digitally. Even the traffic around it was recreated to emulate and 80s era type look, there were no live action plates fused for this sequence at all. We built the entire stadium in 3D with a high-polygonal modeling method using Maya. Z-Brush was employed to provide realistic textures to the models, where-in we later rendered the finalized version using a Mental Ray rendering application. To further enhance the details and credibility to the scene, Photoshop was used for matte paintings in the backgrounds as well. The scene also shows a car sequence, with the lead character Shoaib Khan being played by Akshay Kumar in Muscat, although the principal photography was shot in Mumbai against chroma backgrounds. Our VFX head Prasad Sutar and Ranadheer Reddy went to Muscat in order to procure the interior and exterior live action plates, which we used to replace the chroma backgrounds. For the night time sequences, we transposed the chroma backgrounds with some of the live action plates we procured from certain sections of south Mumbai such as Colaba Causeway, Ballard Pier etc.

Deconstructing the 'VFX' of Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai