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Lighting & Compositing with Animation

Our lighting and compositing team worked in tandem with the animation pipeline before the layout was set for any scene or shot. The lighting along with the compositing team, then worked collectively to create a look development image which was run through the director for his approval. So even before the animation was complete, we had our lighting and compositing process defined that saved us a lot of production time. With the animation files completed, each shot was rendered in different phases as required and defined by the lighting and compositing team.

Lighting and compositing the film

The compositing and lighting team were headed by Molly Khanna and Anondo Mandal respectively. To enhance the look of the lighting, we took single frames of all the different locations in the film with the different times of the day.

The biggest challenge was matching the lighting of the live action plates and actors with the CG environment and characters. At this phase we had more control at the compositing stage and we distinguished the different passes needed to be rendered.

This phase of the film became very technical wherein Anondo became a lighting technical director who made sure that all the technical issues were resolved, if any.

At the same time Molly, the head of compositing made sure that the color concepts that were decided upon in pre-production was achieved. Internally, I then approved the look and development images and get it tweaked if needed by the respective departments.

These single composite frames are also called LD images (Look Development) were run through the Director and Yunus Bukhari, VFX supervisor of the film for their approval.