The vfx making of Paa: Prime Focus delivers 664 shots

Commenting on the PIP shots, Susheel Peris said, “We created a number of PIPs of television news channels. The Prime Focus team designed the look for various channels including logos, ticker bands and breaking news. They were then composited on to various screens across all types of locations, mainly homes, offices, business establishments, Read More">etc. TheRead More

Commenting on the PIP shots, Susheel Peris said, "We created a number of PIPs of television news channels. The Prime Focus team designed the look for various channels including logos, ticker bands and breaking news. They were then composited on to various screens across all types of locations, mainly homes, offices, business establishments, etc. The look for various television screens like LCD panels, CRTs and older televisions were kept in mind as we assigned the various looks."

A total of 50 creative professionals, led by VFX supervisor Susheel Peris, Read More">worked on the project across a 20 day production period. “Paa has an unconventional and realistic storyline. The VFX in the film mainly involved a lot of prosthetic makeup augmentation on Auro and an array of television news channel PIPs. The challenge forRead More

A total of 50 creative professionals, led by VFX supervisor Susheel Peris, worked on the project across a 20 day production period.

"Paa has an unconventional and realistic storyline. The VFX in the film mainly involved a lot of prosthetic makeup augmentation on Auro and an array of television news channel PIPs. The challenge for us was in getting the look right for the character Auro, to make him look believable and flawlessly real" said Merzin Tavaria.

If you thought that prosthetics was all that went behind making Paa, think again. As is the trend in Bollywood these days, vfx house Prime Focus has delivered 664 VFX shots and full DI for the Amitabh Bachchan starrer. The VFX team was led by Merzin Tavaria, Read More">Chief Creative Director and the Digital Intermediate teamRead More

If you thought that prosthetics was all that went behind making Paa, think again. As is the trend in Bollywood these days, vfx house Prime Focus has delivered 664 VFX shots and full DI for the Amitabh Bachchan starrer. The VFX team was led by Merzin Tavaria, Chief Creative Director and the Digital Intermediate team by Rohan Desai, DI Head and Chief Colorist.

Paa, directed by R Balakrishnan and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan, tells the story of an intelligent and witty 13-year-old boy Auro who suffers from Progeria, an extremely rare genetic disorder characterized by premature and rapid aging at an early age.

Read More">There were close to 400 shots in the film where the make-up needed to be digitally touched up frame by frame to create a seamless look of Auro’s head matching the skin tone of the prosthetic with the real skin tone. Extensive rotoscoping was carried out on these shots followed by colour correction to getRead More

There were close to 400 shots in the film where the make-up needed to be digitally touched up frame by frame to create a seamless look of Auro's head matching the skin tone of the prosthetic with the real skin tone. Extensive rotoscoping was carried out on these shots followed by colour correction to get the final seamless look.

“Since the film is based on a realistic subject the look had to be quite crisp and clean” said Rohan Desai. “The film encompassed three looks – the past, which revolves around Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan’s love story, for which we gave a nice romantic feel; the present, Read More">which had to be a littleRead More

"Since the film is based on a realistic subject the look had to be quite crisp and clean" said Rohan Desai. "The film encompassed three looks - the past, which revolves around Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan's love story, for which we gave a nice romantic feel; the present, which had to be a little bleached and desaturated; and the climax shot which is a highly emotional scene shot in the hospital, for which the palette was set to cold and soft."

The look for the film was set by Prime Focus colorist, SManoj C.P.K Verma and the whole DI process took around 20 days.