After elaborate war scenes being appreciated by massive audience in Baahubali, it is finally made public how they got to shot those larger than life size war scenes, with beautifully portraying each and every details of war, making it capture own mind with it’s passing moments and still.
As Baahubali releases this April, it was not only the director SS Rajamouli who had spent his five years on both the series of Baahubali, but his entire team including cinematographer KK Senthil Kumar who along with him made their days and nights as one to get that perfect picture. KK Senthil has teamed up with SS rajamouli previously too in seven movies. And Baahubali came as the biggest platform for him to exhibit his immense potentials and talents. SS and KK both designed a special virtual reality camera (VR) and computer graphics (CG).
A special camera with 24 lenses was used to shoot the the sword of Baahubali and the characters.
KK speaking publically revealed that “both the films took total of five years to complete, the work was on large scale and variations which meant the shooting from virtual reality to computer graphics has to be blended in seamlessly as a cameraman.
It is also strange to believe how that could be filmed using 24 lenses. It was a specially designed rig camera with ultra high resolutions cameras, which inputs data into workstation with production hardware and highly advanced virtual reality graded technology made by AMD. It’s is not just a camera which usually is used to shoot normal films, to shoot varied vision of 360 degrees or 180 degrees either wifi or 100 feet cable was connected to workstation.Often at final editing they were erased from the scene if captured into the vision while filming the scene by VFX editors.
Baahubali is one of the most highly anticipated movie by Indian Cinema and the expectation sky rocketing seems endless and people have been waiting for the story even before it was still on early stages. This prequel is sure to soar heights.
The most awaited movie in the Indian history of cinema is finally here to hit the screens.