Why VFX is Getting Worse? Ft. Adipurush
This is the Ra.One film released in 2011 This is the scene of Adipurush film released in 2023 If I see the Hulk of 2012’s Avengers film, it is this You can see the quality of the latest Marvel TV show She-Hulk Not only this, the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park released in 1993 are this And the dinosaurs of Jurassic World released in the same year are this You noticed that in the earlier movies, VFX was not there And in today’s movies, VFX is not there Let me tell you the definition of bad VFX If you are watching
a TV show and you are not able to tell the difference Which is real and which is created with visual effects That is called best VFX And if you are telling that this is fake and this is computer generated And everything else is real Then that is called bad VFX And this is the same story in modern films Today’s VFX look like gimmicks and plastic And if I talk about Adipurush, I would like to tell you When this film was teased, it got a lot of criticism And then they postponed the release date I haven’t
seen the film, so there may be some improvements in the film And if any of you have seen the film, then tell me in the comment below How did you like
example If you have seen the Pathan film, then how did you like its visual effects? It was made by YRF’s VFX company, which is called YFX But I will tell you a fun fact The visual effects supervisor in YFX who worked on this film And do you know where he started his career? I am talking about a film that is known for its VFX Can you guess which one is it? That is Jani Dushman And Jani Dushman is more famous than his VFX That means you can see that India’s VFX industry has delivered all types
of films But if I talk about Marvel’s shows that are on Disney plus hotstar If I talk about the quality of their VFX, then you can see films like Avatar Which is known for its VFX And if I talk about Avatar and Adipurush, then there are a lot of similarities between them Like Aftar was a VFX heavy film, Adipurush is also a VFX heavy film They started making this film in 2021 And the specialty of this film is that the majority of the films are shot on a green screen Instead of actual real locations Like
they did with Avatar They created everything digitally They even introduced the motion capture technology with Avatar In which the actors wear special suits And Adipurush also tried the same thing But do you know what is the difference here? It took a lot of years to make a film like Avatar A lot of research was done And a lot of technologies were invented to make that film If I talk about Adipurush, I tried to find out about its VFX company Well, officially, no company is associated with it But I found out one thing here That there
is another company called NYVFXWala The co-founder and supervisor was in that company And they opened a separate company apart from that company Which was in their own production house Which is called retrophiles pvt ltd And the company which is not opened is creating VFX for it They named it NYVFXWala because it is the company of Ajay Devgn And this company has already created VFX for Shivaay who won the National Award They even created VFX for Bahubali Franchise Bajirao Mastani They even created VFX for Bahubali Franchise Bajirao Mastani Although I can tell you one thing here
India’s most famous VFX company is called Prime Focus DNEG And DNEG has also announced that they are going to make a film on Ramayana And that looks very promising Because DNEG is the best visual effects company in the world Last year, this company was making VFX for Dune and that film won the Oscar So if you see, if good artists are here and do good work Then obviously the result will be very good But if you come there, then notice one thing globally Except for some selected films, the majority of VFX films look very fake
See, earlier, what used to happen here was that the computer power was limited VFX could only be limited So they used to do it only in those places where they could do well If we talk about Jurassic Park, then in the first film, there were 6 minutes of scenes Which were generated on the computer In the rest of the places, they took models, puppets and many other things So that Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs look realistic And similarly, there are many Hollywood directors in today’s time Who use practical things here Like Christopher Nolan He uses VFX only
in his films where it is needed If not needed, then he does everything practically Same story is with Indian films Like Bahubali, that film also had VFX But still, they made a practical set They shot many things on real locations And used VFX to show the same thing grandly Similarly, if we talk about the film There were many practical things in it and VFX was used in some places Even a special puppet was made here for Jadu If that film was made in today’s time, then it would have been completely CGI If we talk about
it, then in Tumbaad, many practical effects were used But where they had to use VFX, they used such VFX that it looked very high quality I mean, I can understand one problem When the budget of the movie is more and when all the things have to be done more Then there are many problems here Although, if we talk about it, Shahrukh Khan’s Ra.One was such a milestone in India That it took VFX to the next level Even though that film didn’t perform well But according to today’s standard, its VFX is very advanced If it is
used in a limited way, then the result is very good But if a film is made on a grand scale and if there is a lack of planning, then there is a problem here Like we are seeing with Marvel movies today One concept of Marvel is that they make 3 films every year, 4 TV shows And there are limited VFX companies for all of them The workload of these VFX companies is so high that we have heard a report in the past That Marvel is putting so much workload on them that the quality of the
product is not coming out Because they have to make as many films as possible in a very short time And the studios are also very limited I have two interesting examples here Do you remember the film Life of Pi? One of the VFX studios had filed bankruptcy for that film It was a Lion King film like that And one of the VFX studios, MPC, shut down Today, you know that VFX is used a lot And if you take a Hollywood film, there are 20-25 different studios They work here and that’s when you get to see
a good output And when the team is so big, then quality control becomes a big problem here On top of that, there is a problem of the timeline That the film has to be released so soon But even after that, VFX work continues here You can even say that until No Way Home was released in Theaters, VFX work was going on Even those who saw the film on the first day and are watching it after 2 days, the effects have changed here Meaning, work was going on here till the release of the film And this
is a big problem here That the films are relying a lot on VFX And accordingly, VFX artists are getting a load And the film makers have to release the film early And the VFX artists are not getting time And if you see here, there are a lot of problems In India, when Red Chilies VFX takes up the work of any film Then it delivers very good and exceptional things Here, there is a film like Avtar in Hollywood And that film also creates a milestone here Because when good VFX films are made here They don’t make
it thinking that we have to release the film early The delay in the film is fine But the output of the film should be good And if the outcome is good, then all the things are recovered here And this is what you are seeing here The release date of many films is also getting delayed Because now slowly, people have understood that a good quality product is needed here And if the media delivers quality here Then the impact will be seen in their box office performance So this is a story We get to see good films
in VFX here And there are some films whose VFX is very bad By the way, which film’s VFX did you like the most? Which film’s VFX was the worst? You can tell me this in the comment section below Thank you for watching the video I will see you in the next one Goodbye
