Pixion accomplishes visual effects for Double Dhamaal

CGI work Apart from the VFX aspect of the film, a lot of CGI work was carried out to authenticate the visuals in the film. Viral Thakkar, CG Head of the film, said, Read More">“Mumbai and Macau buildings were created as backgrounds using extensive CGI work in the chroma sequences. CG models of buildings were createdRead More

CGI work
Apart from the VFX aspect of the film, a lot of CGI work was carried out to authenticate the visuals in the film. Viral Thakkar, CG Head of the film, said, "Mumbai and Macau buildings were created as backgrounds using extensive CGI work in the chroma sequences. CG models of buildings were created in Maya with a combination of matte paintings. Keeping the perspectives of the plane, horizon, depth, texturing and lighting of the buildings etc. the team at Pixion had to maintain all these factors to make these sequences credible."

Macau in Mumbai The team at Pixion shot a few exterior sequences in Mumbai, which were later made to look like Macau in the film. To achieve this instead of opting to shoot using chroma backgrounds in a studio, Read More">live footage was shot since the mechanics of the VFX process in the scene required theRead More

Macau in Mumbai
The team at Pixion shot a few exterior sequences in Mumbai, which were later made to look like Macau in the film. To achieve this instead of opting to shoot using chroma backgrounds in a studio, live footage was shot since the mechanics of the VFX process in the scene required the live ambience particularly the lighting aspect to bring out the credibility of the scene. In addition, a massive amount of rotoscopy work, CGI, matte paintings, camera match moving was required to augment this scene to make this flawless on screen.

Casino and office in Macau Sanjay Dutt’s office in Macau was to be shown on one side, while the casino was on the other side of the wall. The team at Pixion studios developed two looks for the day and the night shots. In addition, Read More">CGI buildings were modeled and textured using Maya with theRead More

Casino and office in Macau
Sanjay Dutt's office in Macau was to be shown on one side, while the casino was on the other side of the wall. The team at Pixion studios developed two looks for the day and the night shots. In addition, CGI buildings were modeled and textured using Maya with the reference pictures of the buildings that were taken by Ranadheer, the associate VFX supervisor of the film, accordingly.

Mumbai made in a studio The interiors of Sanjay Dutt’s office in Mumbai shown in the first half of the film were shot against a chroma background. The brief was that the team at Pixion should portray that the office, Read More">is situated at the twentieth floor surrounded by commercial high rise buildings in Mumbai. ThereRead More

Mumbai made in a studio
The interiors of Sanjay Dutt's office in Mumbai shown in the first half of the film were shot against a chroma background. The brief was that the team at Pixion should portray that the office, is situated at the twentieth floor surrounded by commercial high rise buildings in Mumbai. There are shots where the four central characters in the film are hanging on the office window, outside the building. This was made possible by shooting it against a chroma background, the challenge in executing these shots were to show the height from where the characters were hanging and to recreate the entire ambience of the city with its traffic and high rise buildings. This was also augmented using CGI and live action.

In the movie making business visual effects is employed when reality cannot mimic fiction and Pixion has certainly utilized its creative arm well to augment the visual effects in Indra Kumar’s latest, Double Dhamaal. With over 700 VFX shots, almost half of the film, that is sixty minutes, Read More">consisted of visual effects. Talking about theRead More

In the movie making business visual effects is employed when reality cannot mimic fiction and Pixion has certainly utilized its creative arm well to augment the visual effects in Indra Kumar’s latest, Double Dhamaal. With over 700 VFX shots, almost half of the film, that is sixty minutes, consisted of visual effects. Talking about the kind of work involved in the film, Naveen Paul, VFX supervisor of the film said, “The film has about twenty minutes of chroma sequences, with many outdoor scenes that are shot in Mumbai but portrayed as Macau in the film. There were a lot of multi plate composites, crowd multiplications and CG elements in the film.” Naveen was present on set to supervise the lens information, the camera height, angle etc. This ensured the VFX process would be unhindered without any technical glitches. Ranadheer Reddy, associate VFX supervisor who was made to travel to Macau and Hong Kong for onset VFX supervision, said, “I had taken Macau city photographs for reference to create a computer generated Macau as backdrops.” The film had over seventy compositors and twelve CGI artists working on the film that Pixion delivered in three months. Bollywood Hungama brings you into a colorful insight on the VFX process that augmented the narrative of Double Dhamaal courtesy Pixion Studios.