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I saw it in imax at the insistence of an acquaintance. While watching I kept thinking: "ok, so this is the results when you have a massive budget, access to lot

by pen2l 4y ago

I saw it in imax at the insistence of an acquaintance. While watching I kept thinking: "ok, so this is the results when you have a massive budget, access to lots of designers and top-of-the-line tools". I'm totally thunderstruck to learn it was all done in Blender pipeline. Bravo for making this possible.

tomcam 4y ago
Same. The movie was very fun and it was plainly obvious to me that they had a giant budget for crowds, visual effects, etc. Gobsmacked that this was an all-Blender operation.
- tooltower 4y ago
  I'm confused. What does budget have to do with using Blender? I thought a big movie budget is needed mainly for the labor and artistry, and comparatively little goes into software licensing. Is that not the case?
  - ZiiS 4y ago
    Plenty of good films have been made with very small budgets. If you are shooting on a consumer DSLR or even phones then Blender is a godsend. If you have RRR's budget you can easily waste more money explaining to the lawyers and accountants that something is free. The decisions is purly on which software is better.
  - tomcam 4y ago
    You should be confused. My thinking was unclear and you are quite right.
2Gkashmiri 4y ago
i have a designer friend who, after years of me prodding him to try blender recently said "i should give blender a try". this is the same guy who lives on adobe, and all that shizz... "industry tools" he calls them. "why should i invest my time to learn a software when no one else in the industry is using them"... glad the industry is changing behind the scenes to a point people like my friend would have to put blender in their workflow and maybe, just maybe one day work entirely off of FOSS tools.
blackoil 4y ago
The budget of ~60 million is huge by Indian standard not by Hollywood where >200 million is now increasingly common.
- dereg 4y ago
  A good chunk of that goes to actor pay. For instance, in the $200m budgeted Gray Man, Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans took home $20m each. Even net those two salaries, Gray Man was twice the budget of RRR and visually pales in comparison to it. Huge budgets mean nothing.
  - bozhark 4y ago
    Americans are paid a higher wage. Dollar goes further with exchanges
    - echelon 4y ago
      > Americans are paid a higher wage. For now. The rest of the world is rapidly catching up in pretty much every sphere. But take movies: America has but a paltry 330 M people. The appetite for "American" media will wane as India, China, and other vastly more populous Asian countries begin to produce Hollywood-caliber films. American box office increasingly relies on non-domestic consumption. Chinese films are doing bigger revenues, and soon Indian films will too. Korea is starting to sweep the Oscars, Emmy's, and Golden Globes. Hollywood is going to be washed out by the vast talent, capital, and differing tastes beyond American borders. The age of the "American" film has already peaked. (It's not just the market growing up. Kids today no longer want to be Hollywood stars - they want to be famous on YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch.) The same trend is observable in other fields. Science, technology, fashion, etc. edit for downvotes: Do not confuse this post for anti-American sentiment. It's an honest current and forward-looking assessment.
      - hilbertseries 4y ago
        > Korea is starting to sweep the Oscars, Emmy's, and Golden Globes. I don’t think Korea won a single award at the Oscars this year. They won a single golden globe and two Emmys. It’s just parasite and squid game, so far. They are very far from sweeping the award ceremonies.
rob74 4y ago
Speaking of "lots of designers": while everything else looks very realistic to me, that tram (I think it's a tram) in the motorbike chase scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbuZQTud7YE&t=85s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbuZQTud7YE&t=85s) looks very odd. A low floor tram in the 1920s? Is that based on any real model? Also, the overhead wire seems to be just hanging there in mid air while the poles that are actually supposed to support it are off to the side...
- ricardobeat 4y ago
  Haha, good catch. Would be nice to have floating tram lines. In this other shot (https://youtu.be/wbuZQTud7YE?t=94 https://youtu.be/wbuZQTud7YE?t=94) you can see there are actually support lines, but they have been "eaten" by the post-processing.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_tram_in_Delhi_-_LIFE_(2).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_tram_in_Delhi_-_LIFE_(2...

by pen2l 4y ago

tomcam 4y ago

Same. The movie was very fun and it was plainly obvious to me that they had a giant budget for crowds, visual effects, etc. Gobsmacked that this was an all-Blender operation.

tooltower 4y ago
I'm confused. What does budget have to do with using Blender? I thought a big movie budget is needed mainly for the labor and artistry, and comparatively little goes into software licensing. Is that not the case?
- ZiiS 4y ago
  Plenty of good films have been made with very small budgets. If you are shooting on a consumer DSLR or even phones then Blender is a godsend. If you have RRR's budget you can easily waste more money explaining to the lawyers and accountants that something is free. The decisions is purly on which software is better.
- tomcam 4y ago
  You should be confused. My thinking was unclear and you are quite right.

2Gkashmiri 4y ago

i have a designer friend who, after years of me prodding him to try blender recently said "i should give blender a try". this is the same guy who lives on adobe, and all that shizz... "industry tools" he calls them. "why should i invest my time to learn a software when no one else in the industry is using them"... glad the industry is changing behind the scenes to a point people like my friend would have to put blender in their workflow and maybe, just maybe one day work entirely off of FOSS tools.

blackoil 4y ago

The budget of ~60 million is huge by Indian standard not by Hollywood where >200 million is now increasingly common.

dereg 4y ago
A good chunk of that goes to actor pay. For instance, in the $200m budgeted Gray Man, Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans took home $20m each. Even net those two salaries, Gray Man was twice the budget of RRR and visually pales in comparison to it. Huge budgets mean nothing.
- bozhark 4y ago
  Americans are paid a higher wage. Dollar goes further with exchanges
  - echelon 4y ago
    > Americans are paid a higher wage. For now. The rest of the world is rapidly catching up in pretty much every sphere. But take movies: America has but a paltry 330 M people. The appetite for "American" media will wane as India, China, and other vastly more populous Asian countries begin to produce Hollywood-caliber films. American box office increasingly relies on non-domestic consumption. Chinese films are doing bigger revenues, and soon Indian films will too. Korea is starting to sweep the Oscars, Emmy's, and Golden Globes. Hollywood is going to be washed out by the vast talent, capital, and differing tastes beyond American borders. The age of the "American" film has already peaked. (It's not just the market growing up. Kids today no longer want to be Hollywood stars - they want to be famous on YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch.) The same trend is observable in other fields. Science, technology, fashion, etc. edit for downvotes: Do not confuse this post for anti-American sentiment. It's an honest current and forward-looking assessment.
    - hilbertseries 4y ago
      > Korea is starting to sweep the Oscars, Emmy's, and Golden Globes. I don’t think Korea won a single award at the Oscars this year. They won a single golden globe and two Emmys. It’s just parasite and squid game, so far. They are very far from sweeping the award ceremonies.

rob74 4y ago

Speaking of "lots of designers": while everything else looks very realistic to me, that tram (I think it's a tram) in the motorbike chase scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbuZQTud7YE&t=85s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbuZQTud7YE&t=85s) looks very odd. A low floor tram in the 1920s? Is that based on any real model? Also, the overhead wire seems to be just hanging there in mid air while the poles that are actually supposed to support it are off to the side...

ricardobeat 4y ago
Haha, good catch. Would be nice to have floating tram lines. In this other shot (https://youtu.be/wbuZQTud7YE?t=94 https://youtu.be/wbuZQTud7YE?t=94) you can see there are actually support lines, but they have been "eaten" by the post-processing.
justsomehnguy 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_tram_in_Delhi_-_LIFE_(2).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_tram_in_Delhi_-_LIFE_(2...