I'm ezhil here and i live in singapore. I had been a member of this group for many years but mostly have been a silent observer. I had fallen for PS, since my childhood days at chennai. I work as an freelance artist and art faculty at an academy here at singapore.
Ok..now enough of my bg.Coming to the point, I've joined a digital film production course project - everything 3D - you can imagine shrek,toystory, LOTR etc. And as a part of my final project movie presentation, I've planned to take up my "dream" finally - to make a Ponniyin Selvan 3D project. At the beginning phase, i'm planning to do only a PS trailer and an episode from the epic.It would be a team effort, - though I've read PS thousand times and drawn many PS paintings, I'm still thirsty to have more of PS.
My humble request to this devoted group is to offer me support morally and informatically to provide the stimultion and strength to do this major project.Though, it has been many desparate ps fan's dream to see his PS characters come alive, it has always remained a dream so far.I jus wanted to go one step ahead by trying something as a first stepping stone.Though this may be just a trailer (15mins), i want to portray all the ps characters modelled to 3d perfection and more so with full life.
That was great. Mr RjC, our group member had tried a similar effort some time back recently. May be you could contact him for some inputs from him regarding this.
For information and moral help from this group, Ezhil, you only have to ask!!!!
> Ponniyin Selvan 3D project. At the beginning phase, > i'm planning to > do only a PS trailer and an episode from the epic.
> My humble request to this devoted group is to offer > me support > morally and informatically to provide the stimultion > and strength to > do this major project. >
You have all our support, just go ahead and work on the project. Eagerly waiting for the PS trailer.
Wow..amazing, i never thought just a single idea at conception could provoke such a great response.i sincerely thank each and everyone of you in this wonderful team.
at present, i'm joining the program on march 19th and the requirement analysis would take some time. then this proposal needs to be acknowledged by the other members (as few (or no!) indians are present in the team - so i have to get them convinced on the ps plot).once everything is through, we need to work on the characters first and then visual effects, bg setup and finally animate with music score. the final submission of the movie would be on jun20th(as of now). my main motive on contacting this group was that, though i can do a 3d film on my own for my project, it would just be my version of ps -not others.there are countless fans of ps all over the world and to fullfill everyone`s dream is next to impossible.still we can give it a try by 2 ways.
1. Doing in digital media - which gives room for major changes and alterations of physical forms,voices,visual background& music.And these are absolutely re-usable objects.this is simply not possible in traditional cinema as it requires immense investments for a minor change.
2.If i had to attempt it on the first place, i need strong feedback - good or bad - but honest ones on the character forms and visualization.
So whenever, i upload a digital form - say our vandhiya devan, you can always point out that, his mouth is big and hairstyle is not good enough - just by viewing the clip. and i can re-iterate to make him more handsome and still naughty! Thats what i want from this team and i'm more than sure that you would give me that.
Thanks a ton again..!
P.S: if anyone has some sample 2ds or 3ds of ps characters, pls do email me.
I am pretty well aware of the 3D graphics you are talking about and I myself have written a text book on Multimedia with significant 3D content.
These are my suggestions:
* Use Maniyam's drawings for 3D models. I am not sure of the software you are going to use for modelling. I'll say Maya or Softimage should shine well - but upto you
* One of the classic problems you are going to get into is in textures. This is where most Indian 3D is getting into problems. Final fantasy movie is the extreme example you can go wherein minor hairs in the face were painstakingly modelled. You need not go that far - but do not resort to classing flat renderings
* Hair is another major problem. The amount of time you have will be limited
* Develop a story board and share it with all of us. It can be in the form of a simple comics or verbal. Fast paced action is important
Thanks for the technical insight. Indeed i would require something like this for a startup on the project.
There are some points i would like to clarify for the technical members of our group:
1. I would be doing PS primarily in 3DsMax and Charater Studio which are the original tools before maya, and i might get some help from maya and lightwave towards the end.
2.Yes. I accept that textures are the most difficult part to create the space,earth and all other elements. I'll ensure it's well taken care of when i initiate the project.
3.Hair/fur/skin/eyes are another issue that needs to be looked into.May be i can utilize maya for these type of minor but distinctive details.
Thanks for the initiation. Let me know the name of your book too, i would love to read, if it provides some more enlightenment.
thanks for all the support you have given me. I have initiated the project but before that i would like to come to chennai again for a nostalgia (may be research!). I'm starting today and will be there for another week.if anyone, would like to give their valuable feedback, they can give so in person too.Once i reach chennai, i'll give my contact details so that i can meet some interested minds.
may i know, whom i should be co-ordinating for this. sps or gokul or karthik - actually i want to know the moderator or the owner of the ps group.
Pls contact Sivaram Kannan / Plastic Chandra / Madhan in Chennai. Me - sps, Venkat are in chennai. Gokul in the USA. =====================================================