Kolkata based Virtualinfocom is currently working on their first animated IP, a 2D animation movie – ‘Mahavir- the Protector.’ This 90 minute movie will be targeted at a wider range of audience between the age group from 5 to 25 years old. The studio started working on several aspects of this movie in 2011. Currently in production, the feature is tentatively slated for mid 2014.
The Director, Writer and Producer of this animation movie is Arijit Bhattacharyya.
Kalki (incarnation of Lord Vishnu) and Gadura- Kalki’s godfather are the main characters of the movie. The other secondary characters are Shiva, Vishnu, Durga, Ganesh, Kartik, Yamraj, Gadura, Blood Seed (Rakta Beej), Nova, Taraka, Rakhshashi, Kumbhakarna, Indra, Maya, Kali and Klesh.
The movie follows the story of the super power called Kalki, born in 2124 to destroy the evil spirits in and around the earth using his ultimate powers. As per the story line, before Kalki’s birth, seven devotional Sadhus did a “Maha- Nirvana” Yagya. These sadhus had super powers and had to devote their power to call their protector, but one of them denied to do so and left the Yagna area, so the power was born but it had no body. The power is in the form of a spirit who can’t take part in any mortal world, who is seeking for a pure body.
There are interesting twists and turns as this mythological story proceeds further. It will make the audience imagine of the test tube future generation and think why it’s necessary to have a chaos and make a balance out of it.
The representation of specific characters for this movie was designed only after referring to several Indian Gods like Vishnu, Shiv, Ganesh and Brahma from several mythological books.
Talking to AnimationXpress.com about the research work, Arijit Bhattacharyya, Head of Virtualinfocom, says, “I observed keenly the real look and feel of each and every Koli God.”
He further adds, “We even did an in-depth study with regards to the old Indian culture belief for several Gods in Sanskrit, Greek, Mayan, Sindhu and even researched on actual powers of these Gods, resembling them with future technology.”
“We carefully chose SBG for Vector Graphics and Light Box for animation.” Besides these, other softwares were also used, namely GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), Inkscape and XSheet.
Making an Indian GOD with science fiction look and feel was the main challenge faced by the Virtualinfocom team. Rinita, Debarun, Vandana, Ajit, Punit, Navin, Samrat are the team members who are involved in the animation characterization and graphics of this movie.