The Big B is not only ruling the box office and TV Commercial circuit, Indian animators too it seems are enamoured by the charisma of the superstar.
Students from Delhi based Pumpkin Studio and Academy have created a 3D animated song featuring Amitabh Bachchan in CG Singing and dancing to the song Mere Pass Aoo Mere Doston.
Speaking to Animation ‘xpress, Pumpkin Studio and Academy CEO Hardeep Singh Gill stated,”We have tried to come up with a new concept for our indian animation industry which nobody has ever thought of. We have got this work done from some of our good students along with the technical team to materialize this idea. Animation wise we have tried our best but still in some of the scenes there is slight rigidity in Amitabh Bachhan’s animation”
“When we thought of making a showreel project for our institute we toyed around with many ideas and finally decided to feature a celebrity in CG. Naturally the BIg B was the obvious choice for us. The song features Amitji as narrating stories to kids, the unique thing about our video is that we transport viewers to the various scenes that he describes in his storytelling”
The animated video took around four months in the making and 5 students (Pritee Jain, Ruby Singh, Rahul Kumar, Akshay Lamba and Gagandeep Kaur) and 2 faculty members worked on the video.
Speaking on behalf of all the team members Ruby Singh who worked on the background and props shared,”It was a great experience working on a live project as it familiarized us with the exact working environment of a production house. We were exposed to a lot of technical details that as a student we were not aware of, for example the importance of pre-production (sketching and story boarding), meeting the targets for a day and refining animations many a times to improve them, counter checking the animation with the mesh, how lights and camera setting can enhance a scene, detailing of the texture, background setting and accordingly adjusting the characters on them, etc”
No doubt that the video does look very raw and the animation is extremely rigid, but the fact that an institute has worked on this and encouarged students to collaborate on projects with timelines makes it worth a mention!