PBS: Director Kireet Khurana talks about his film Toonpur Ka Superrhero : Bollywood News

What motivated you in choosing the classical style of animation for your film?

Toonpur has a lot of cartoony snappy timing to it, Its about jaw dropping, eye popping, body breaking in parts with a loony timing to it. Therefore we chose a classical animation style for the 3D film.

What do you think studios and animators lack in our country?

The first thing that I notice is that when Ive made something, people ask me what softwares have I used. This I think is the biggest fallacy and misconception people have, because the computer just offers an extension of your minds eye. In fact, it places greater creative challenges, iterations and good quality. The demand gets more when the computer offers you more. I always emphasize on focusing on the art and the creative processes of the work. The biggest factor that I feel that we need to surmount here is that, most of the people go through software training institutes and there are no laws to stop them. The government should formulate laws to stop them from marketing their institutes as animation training institutes because theyre software training institutes. They mainly talk about the technicalities of the software. For example, Photoshop can be learnt in 2 weeks, but to learn how to paint takes a lifetime.

I feel people who have grown from JJ school of arts or Raheja whove done courses that extend up to five years should be taught Photoshop that would have a greater impact aesthetically and technically. Animation is an expensive medium and in India our finances are restricted in making expensive animated films. With the turnovers that were witnessing were caught up with very limited bandwidth with which we have to make a movie. The least we could do is to hope that we recover what weve invested in with half million dollars, this is where things are coming from.