Whether it’s a hand-drawn masterpiece of the past or a modern CGI film, the art of VFX has been charming us with captivating characters, stories, and worlds. The world of VFX is a fascinating one, serving both as sponge and mirror to the broader world of technological and social change. Studios across the countries are looking for the best VFX companies to create their next big project. Drishyam vfx is a world-class VFX facility and post production studio catering to every creative need across the markets of TV, Film, digital, advertising and government projects. What started off as a team of 20 in 500 sq. ft. is now expanded into 60 to 120 people spread across 3200 sq. ft., where Rajeev Kumar heads Drishyam VFX as COO. Rajeev’s burning desire to excel each day by never failing a delivery deadline, constant endeavor at expanding the vision of Drishyam VFX with grit and determination has made him a rising star of the industry.
The studio stands at the forefront of an extremely dynamic world of VFX execution, owing to the specialization in highly complex visual effects, animation, CG, matte painting, match-move, roto and paint. It provides visual effects and 3D computer animation solutions for films, broadcast television, medical, architectural visualizations, game movies, corporate videos and explainer videos.
Journey to Become Renowned VFX artist
With over ten years of versatility with around ninety films, Rajeev is one of the Founder Members of Drishyam vfx and is the youngest entrepreneur in VFX industry. After pursuing a Diploma in Mass Communication with a specialization in Film Editing into the Radio, Films and Television stream of the course, he began his career with Anibrain, Pune as a VFX Coordinator. His experience and exposure got him the coveted position of VFX Line Producer at Prime Focus. He later switched to Prana Studios where he worked as a Production Manager. With each position, he kept on transforming himself to become a valuable contributor. With his exclusive niche over Bollywood projects, he also dealt with Hollywood projects such as Imperium, Ghost
of War, X-Men, Monkey King and Asura with equal passion and fervor.
Canvas of Films under Drishyam VFX
Under the guidance of Rajeev, Drishyam VFX has made its contribution in several films such as UTV Motion Picture‘Fitoor’ which was released in the year 2016. Followed by Endemol India’s Te3n, Nishikant Kamat ‘ Madaari’, Ashutosh Gowariker ‘ Mohenjodaro’ Bhushan Kumar’s Tum Bin 2, Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani2, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Rangoon, Telegu film ‘Nene Raju Nene Mantri’ directed by Teja, Hansal Mehta’s Omerta, Anubhav Sinha’s ‘Mulk”, Manav Bhalla’s (Sony Pictures) Lashtam Pashtam, Sriram Raghavan’s Andhadhun, Amit Sharma’s (Junglee Pictures) ‘Badhai ho’ and recently Kamal Jain’s Manikarnika to name few of them.
It is also associated with leading TV series and Web series for production houses like Colors TV, Zee Entertainment, Star Plus, Hotstar, Eros Now, ALT Balaji, Zee5, Netflix, Jio Studios and Times Internet for the entire post production work.
Talking about the company Rajeev says, “Drishyam VFX delivers the most eye-catching series
in world cinema and offers proficiency across all kinds of effects, unpaid to the combination of a team of highly skilled professionals, the latest tools and so on.”
The Technical Strength of the Team
Drishyam VFX’s technical team size is more than 120 artists which boast a dynamic mix of industry veterans coupled with fresh talent. The company offers services from Prep work (roto, paint, chroma keying) to VFX Compositing, cosmetic fixes, 2D to 3D conversion, 3D real estate walkthroughs and 3D CGI services (background modeling, char modeling, texturing, animation, lighting, rigging and rendering). Drishyam VFX pioneers in production management and client servicing for the quality output at the affordable prices.
Special particle effects (dynamics) are the forte, such as fire, water, smoke, fog, snow, explosions, blood, dust and debris simulations. The studio is well-equipped with technically advanced storage facility that has the capacity to work on multiple visual effects Film projects, TV Commercials and AR & VR projects at the same time with high data confidentiality. The
data center comprises of 4200 cores of rendering power with an estimated 8.3 THz of computing power and is also authorized license holder of Foundry, Autodesk, Adobe and Windows.
What’s So Unique?
Drishyam VFX has done in-house films as well as films which are not being produced by Drishyam. Technology plays a vital role in making the impossible things looks possible. Modern technologies are bringing imagination to life and give perspective to the entire system of VFX. A visual effect combines existing footage with computer generated imaginary to create realistic scenes. Common uses include sky replacement, logo removal and including environmental effects, such as snow, fire, smoke and lightning.
Drishyam VFX has made its mark especially in particle stimulation like water, snow and fire. In the films like Mohenjodaro it has created the whole water sequences through the help of CG.
Drishyam VFX being the top 10 VFX company offering global, end-to-end services and technology. It enables the worldwide market for professionally visual effect work. The crucial planning to execute the VFX work is done in advance. It has become a bigger part of the creative process with talented concept artists, creative designers and VFX supervisors.
Rajeev’s View on Emerging Market
The demand for animation, VFX and gaming has expanded with the increase of targeted broadcasting hours by cable and satellite TV, availability of low cost internet access, penetration of mobile devices along with the growing popularity of streaming video.
“Hollywood movies go all over the world with so much CG and special effects because of fantasy. It is difficult to believe that the tiger in the movie ‘Life of Pi’ is not a real tiger but a digital one”, says Rajeev.
“We are increasingly seeing more of the global animation, VFX and games production taking place in a globally distributed mode. Production work is becoming global with tax incentives, regional low labor costs and lower computing costs, which put pressure on companies to reduce costs and set up facilities in tax advantaged or low-cost regions”, says Rajeev.
The Road Ahead: Progress towards Perfection
Drishyam VFX aims to work for all the possible verticals of visual effects from films to OTT platforms and thrives to be in a fast changing environment where there’s business growth. “The future of the industry will always be uncertain, shaky, and scary at times. By the same token that we have no idea what is coming, it is exciting to know what is possible and to dream of what will be created and what we can create”, he says
“The whole concept of perceiving VFX is changing with the emerging digital markets. I always believed that transparency with clients has to be 100%, it brings about nuances and clarity within shots and the script. VFX is no more swarming, it’s more of a creative field and one needs to be particular in ascertaining budgets and time to it,” asserts Rajeev Kumar.
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