Being India’s top budget film, the historical Indian epic blockbuster Baahubali – The Beginning has grossed more than $90 million USD worldwide, and has set an all-time domestic box office record for opening day with $7.8 million and opening weekend box office record with $25.6 million, topping the previous record of last year’s Happy New Year. Current statistics shows that Baahubali – The Beginning is the third global highest grossing Indian film of all time, and the highest grossing Indian film of all time within India.
This movie has been directed by renowned Indian director SS Rajamouli, co-starring Prabhas and Rana Daggubati. Baahubali is a story about two brothers vying for the throne of the kingdom of Maahismati in their own ways; one (played by Prabhas) is a noble warrior named Baahubali who believes in winning the confidence of the masses whereas the other (played by Rana Daggubati) believes in ruthlessness and a somewhat dictatorial approach. The details of which are best left unspoken.
Baahubali‘s CGI visual effects was collaborated with a local company Makuta VFX. Rayvision was tasked with the responsibility of rendering the movie. Almost entire movie were super imposed with elaborated CGI special effects of lavish landscapes and magnificent war scenes from the movie.
Baahubali deserves a high praise for financing such high budget on an fictional epic. From the breathtaking waterfalls to the extreme complicated rendering of Maahismati, its clear that extreme measures was put into efforts and devoted into rendering highly complicated sets as well as the exclusive environments.
Rayvision as the rendering partner of Makuta VFX, the joint cooperation on the Baahubali project was highly satisfactory. Subhrojyoti Banerjee, the senior VFX artist of Makuta VFX mentioned that, “Rayvision have been very helpful to us during our crunch time on the feature, notably their production coordinator and technical directors. They were available 24/7 to assist in getting our renders out and solve any snags we faced during the complex file setups. The pricing structure offered to us was competitive for the quantity of work we were producing with render nodes being always available to us for use. Within around a month we rendered approx. 80,000 frames, totaling 27,000 render hours on the Rayvision render farm.”
Rayvision as rendering expert and probably one of the world’s largest render farms are eager to work with any production houses to produce top quality special-effects as well as animations. They strive to ensure their partner’s vision is met, with their expertise and super computing power on the partner’s desktop to help the world understand the stories they wish to tell better.