Ranadheeran - A tribute to superstar Kochadaiiyaan
Ranadheeran – India’s first 3D animated trailer, a brainchild of Realworks Studios
July 31st, 2014
Randheeran is India’s first 3D animated trailer – a brainchild of Coimbatore-based Realworks Studios, born out of 756 manhours of work rendered by a 20-member crew– purely made in India using custom-made Open Source Software with local talent, hand-made animation, regular work stations and internet references and with no fancy budgets attached to it.
Made as a tribute to Superstar’s Kochadaiiyaan, the 3-minute-52-second-long video trailer of Ranadheeran has captured the attention of animation enthusiasts and those in the film circles. The teaser was uploaded on YouTube on July 21 and since then it has garnered 1.47 lakh and plus hits at the time of writing this report.
Realworks Studios specialises in architectural visualization since 2009. Sivaprasad Velayudhan of Real works Studios said that the trailer of Ranadheeran was modelled on Kochadaiiyaan. Made as a tribute to the creators of the software and to show the world the immense possibilities of free and open source software,Team Realworks has made the 3D animated trailer.
He further stated that appreciation has come from all pockets including Soundarya Rajinikanth who directed Kocahdaiiyan starring Rajinikanth and using motion capture technology for the first time in the country.
Realworks Studios is receiving a lot of calls from fans of Superstrars and the film industry from here and overseas circuits.
Soundarya Rajinkanth has herself tweeted saying that she wished to meet Sivaprasad Velayudhan and Team Realworks soon!
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Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
