Magic created by few young and very creative team of Makuta VFX is now felicitated by the most prestigious National Award for its Visual Effects in Telugu feature directed by SS Rajamouli - Eega.

A housefly becoming the Hero of the film and defeating the villain is very simple to convey but when it comes to execution on the celluloid, it is a definite challenge!!

Hyderabad based Makuta Visual Effects co-founded by Mr. Pete Draper has taken this challenge and with the proven directorial expertise of the sensational director SS Rajamouli, Eega has won two national awards. The total credit goes to entire team behind Makuta VFX for creating such a magical experience and showing the potential of  Indian cinema to the international audience.

Team Makuta is super excited about winning the National Award for special effects and graphics for over 2.000 shots they have handled. They have not only created the fly and the principal animation but also lit, rendered and composited the character along with all of its interacting elements, such as full interactive environments, digital set extensions and properties.

The film also won the National Award for best feature film in Telugu.

Magadheera, 7th Sense, Gajini, SriRamarajyam are few other extraordinary outcomes from the VFX Magicians of  Hyderabad - MAKUTA Visual Effects.

When asked about the core strength of Team Makuta, Mr. Pete Draper - Division Head & Chief Technical Director, shared that the main strength lies in the way we collect data on-set. We are pretty active when it comes to this (and pretty vocal too!) to ensure that everything is collated properly and that we have the right plates and references. Without the right information, the artists back at the studio cannot do their jobs properly. We log everything, from time of day through to camera information (lens, make, model, position etc) and shoot as much material as possible to assist our artists, also acquiring props that need replicating digitally (or shooting references if they cant). I like to think that set supervision is the foundation of all of the effects work to come; this can be a tricky thing to do and mentally exhausting as you have a limited time to collect all of the information required to complete a shot that you may only receive a month or two later (sometimes as late as six months depending on the editor!). You have to put yourself into every single role when supervising - tracking, modelling, lighting, animation, effects, cleanup, compositing - and balance who you are going to piss off the least; for example, the more markers you put in, tracking is going to be happy but compositing is going to be angry. And vice versa. Its all about weighing up the shot, advising the Director and DoP to get the best result and thinking on your feet. Even those shots which have been storyboarded and pre-vizd like crazy can yield surprises and you need to have a solution instantly else you are not going to get what your artists need.

AnimationSutra.com  Congratulates each and every member of Team Makuta VFX for making the Indian Cinema proud.