Pete Draper, co-founder and chief technical officer of Makuta VFX, says working on Rajinikanth’s Kaala was one of his biggest projects.
“The experience of working on the film has been very good. The set work which we have to do... It is one of the biggest that we have worked on,” Draper said.
He has worked on a number of blockbusters such as Eega, Ghajini, Magadheera, Endhiran and Baahubali.
Kaala also features Nana Patekar, Huma Qureshi, actor-director Samudrakani and Eswari Rao among others. The film is slated for release in June.
“They have built a 1 or 1.5km set... We went out there for work. I hope you won’t be able to tell [the] CGI in it,” Draper said, adding that some of the best CGI is the one that people don’t spot.
Creating a world with the use of technology is not easy.
“The problem with CGI is that it is perfect and the real world is not perfect. If you look around yourself, every single thing that you notice has some imperfection... Every single thing have small imperfections. We are not used to seeing perfection,” he said.
“As soon we see something which is literally perfect, we think that something is not right because you are not used to seeing that. We have to make things to convince the audience. So, creating a structure or an animation or creating a realistic thing is just the first stage. It is adding those inaccuracies, imperfection which is challenging,” he added.
