Makuta comes out with ‘Komaram Bheemudo’ VFX breakdown

‘Komaram Bheemudo’ song from ‘RRR’ is one of the most important segments for which Makuta completed the Visual Effects. Recently, the famous studio released a video giving the breakdown of the Visual Effects done for the song.

We see shots of how crowd duplication was done for the defining song. As Jr NTR’s Komaram Bheem sings while writhing in pain, the crowds are stunned into silence. Most of the crowd members were created in the studio (not the ones whose reaction shots are captured, obviously). Much of what we see in the backdrop is not real.

Makuta has revealed that it has produced over 740 digital visual effects for multiple scenes in the film. The much-loved introduction scene featuring Ram Charan was done by the studio, besides the stupendous intermission fight and the mind-blowing jungle fight in the climax.

“We changed our pipeline to primarily Blender for asset work, lighting and rendering, complementing it with our established FX pipeline based around 3ds Max and TyFlow for crowd which we utilised in the Police Station sequence, and rendered using the Cycles For Max port of Blender’s Cycles renderer. Due to the rock-solid rendering and shading, we were able to create multiple extension duplicates and material variations that we wouldn’t have been able to do with our previous pipeline,” the studio said.