Tekhnix Studios

Trip to Rasulpur

2010-02-01T00:39:00.001-08:00

Tekhni Eye: Concepts

2010-01-29T05:35:00.000-08:00

Trip to the Hill

2010-01-29T05:21:00.000-08:00

Fear - Making

2009-12-30T06:01:00.000-08:00

Fear: Short film by Tekhnix Students

3 day shoot, 21 Crew people, 200+ Unwanted Crowd (Very hard to handle)

Fear is a film about people's belief in ghosts.
The story goes on with 4 main characters, 2 side actors and 5 extras.

2 VFX supervisor, 2 CGI supervisor, 1 look development artist.
The film will be available on DVD print in India by March 2010.

Here are few of the production pictures.

MD Jitendra Vaghani helping students in the makeup of "MAD" (Karan).

Karan was nearly exhausted with dirt and fevicol on him :D (hehe)

Swathi Shenoy and Jay choksi while helping in the make up (of Narendra, Daxesh, Ekta, Sonal).

4 main characters, MAD, Me (Chetan Thaker: with hairdoo on me head), Jitendra [Pulling my Hairdoo :( ]

Ashwin Zala (VFX Supervisor)
Me (Chetan Thaker) in back roaming around :D

Starting sequence Shots
Unwanted crowd 15+

End of Day one, [Extremely Happy / Tired Crew]

Day 2
Karan (with the bicycle of "Bhola - the milkman")

Bhola at his best [Pankaj (Bhola) with Karan and Dipen)

Day 2 Night

Drunk: character (Manoj) having fun with the crowd of 100+
We were supposed to move the crowd out of the scene in 5 minutes and yes we did it.

Day 2 Shoot Over (Happy crew with crowd)

Day 3
Morning Scene

Bhola on his bicycle

Me having fun with Bhola's bicycle (it was amazing...lol)

when bhola died.... :(

Bhola's re-birth... [Dharam, Pankaj (Bhola), Me, Jitendra]
Bhola and his favorite "Bipasha" photograph.

I'm eating "Datun" - sort of wood; which few people in India uses in place of Brush to brush their teeth. It really works... makes teeth brighter and stronger... try it sometime when you're in India. hehe!!

End of Day 3 Shoot.
finally...we're done... :) !!

Live Action + CG Test

2009-12-30T03:50:00.001-08:00

Live Action footage + CG character Compositing

Here is one of the Test with Making:

Mogembo Test from Chetan Thaker on Vimeo.

Stop Motion Tests

2009-12-30T01:01:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the Stop Motion Tests Done by students at Tekhnix Studios:

Mr. Goti from Chetan Thaker on Vimeo.

Lets not Fight from Chetan Thaker on Vimeo.

Good Night from Chetan Thaker on Vimeo.

Golly from Chetan Thaker on Vimeo.

Football from Chetan Thaker on Vimeo.

Rope Pulling from Chetan Thaker on Vimeo.

Stop Motion + Live Action Test

2009-09-08T02:04:00.000-07:00

Experimental animation is one of my most favorite subject. During the preparation of Stop Motion animation seminar for TekhniX Studios, Jitendra (MD) came up with an Idea of merging Stop Motion Animation with Live action footage. Using live action background in Stop Motion Animation is very commonly used, as well as Live characters with Clay Characters. We wanted to come up with something new and unique which can provide us with technical challenge.

Keeping that in mind, we planned to make clay models with Eyes and Lips shot in live action. So here was the first trial. We used one of our very basic creature as the model and captured eye & lip movements with a HDV cam keeping the lighting condition same in both plates. The result seemed pretty neat (the live action eyes and lips shot looks very weird and funny separately).

To add more realistic nature, we animated the character a little bit in Y and Z directions; and again shot the eyes and lips in live action. Checking the result, eye movements were very impressive. But, the lips didn't go quite well on the clay model because of the tracking issues. So, we shot the lips and eyes separately again and merged it over the clay model with rotoscopy. Thats the exact thing what we wanted.

Now on we will be coming up with new projects made in the same way, which will include Live action eyes and lips tracked; and later merged over the clay model.

The most challenging part in this process is to track the clay model's movement to match the live action footage of eyes and lips. As well as the acting takes more time, because the actor can not move his/her head during the shoot; as it may result in nothing but extra tracking and stabilizing of the live action footage.

Here is the Trial Output:

Clay Animation + Live Action Test from Chetan Thaker on Vimeo.

Live Action Eye Test:

Clay + Live: Eye Test from Chetan Thaker on Vimeo.

Live Action Mouth Test:

Clay + Live: Mouth Test from Chetan Thaker on Vimeo.

Clay Test:

Clay + Live: Clay Test from Chetan Thaker on Vimeo.

We are going through more test projects, will be posting the entries soon!

Thanks to all the artists who became a part of this test and made it available on screen ;)

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