I’m not really a guy who writes reviews. But I couldn’t stop myself from writing this; mainly because I’ve kind of known about this project for over a year now. Moreover I thought of writing this to speak out how lots of small things make or break some project. Anyways, these are all my personal views and opinions and don’t reflect my company’s views.
Let me state clearly beforehand that I’d like to write this review thinking I’m an anonymous guy. I do belong to the same company who’s the producer of the movie, and I might get a bit biased. Hence to prevent that the best way is to write as if I DON’T belong to the company:-
Story: Very Enjoyable. Very Hindi-Filmy. Very Masala. I liked it. Though after the interval the pace of events went up too high to consider a few things so fast. Children might not like to understand things so fast.
Screenplay: Okay.
Characters: There were a few characters in the movie which lacked proper visual conceptualization. I wouldn’t like to pin-point. Those characters could have been made to look much much more interesting. Loved the look of Ghatothkach though. Clearly shows that time was spent to visualize him properly. Though didn’t like his dhoti for some reason. It felt like a ready-made dhoti with a waist belt fitted on the inner-side of the dhoti. But I must say the child Ghattu and child Gajju were TOO cute and cuddly.
Environments: Loved the environments. It was a mix of what I had always thought of the Mahabharata era and that of a dreamland. Wonderful job in there.
2D - Key framing: It was okay. But forms and shapes of everything was changing like anything. I mean if you see Ghatothkach in one sequence he looks like something. If you see him in another sequence he looks quite different. I’m just waiting for the day when a sculpture of the character will be made as a start. Then all the artists study the form of the sculpture and then start animating. This makes sure all the keyframe artists are on the same page. Moreover the movie badly needed some more in-betweens, at least twice. It was very jerky at times.
2D - Inking: Okay but I don’t know why it didn’t look that smooth. There was a slight rough look in it.
2D - Coloring: Yeah this one I really liked. No idea if it’s because of the color correction or not, but the end result was very nice. Beautiful scene composition.
3D - Modeling: It was looking very different from the form and shapes in the 2D animated scenes. Other than that, it was okay.
3D - Texturing: Okay, quite decent. But the textures would have fitted more if it was a bit more flat without so much of ‘burnt tones’ on places.
3D - Rigging: The weighing was all smooth but I don’t think it was good. Something was really wrong with it. Speaking of the faces, it was rigged very badly in my opinion. It just wasn’t working how it should have been. I really disliked the rigging of Ghattu’s dhoti. Either that, or the dhoti model wasn’t made to get rigged properly.
3D - Animation: Though it was all MOCAP-ed, I really didn’t like it that much. It made me feel it would have looked better if it was animated manually. Also the moves weren’t matching with the beats of the songs. It was kind of ‘lagging’.
3D - Lighting: Beautiful Lighting on the 3D part. It completely hid all the super-flaws of the 3d sequences.
3D - Rendering: Again rendering was very satisfying. I felt fresh.
Composite FX: Nice ones. Nothing more to say. Nothing was over-done or under-done.
Overall Compositing: Nice, but the scenes where it had a mix of 2D and 3D elements seen together, things were looking out of place. Usually in these situations, the 3D elements are brought one step inferior and the 2D elements are taken one step higher (with much rich colors and shading) so it goes along with each other.
Voice-overs: Loved it.
Music Composition: Loved a few numbers. Others were time-pass.
Background Music: Loved it too.
Sound FX and Foleys: Better than any other animated movie ever released in
Choreography: Don’t want to talk too much about it, as I really disliked it.
Ending Title: There was a nice royal feeling in it. I loved it. The only problem I saw is that when the ‘Playback Singer’ section shows up, the words are almost unreadable. At least I couldn’t read a single word there.
Overall Presentation: The overall presentation was quite satisfying.
Anyways, so that was my personal take on how I felt Ghatothkach was. It’s 2:03 of morning already and I have to go to the office at around 10 of the morning. So I’ll pack up my ‘rubbish-writing’ right now.
Moreover, don’t comment. I know you might not like what I wrote. And similarly I might not like what you comment on this. We are all different with different tastes. So it’s better to stay in peace and not talk about each other’s likings.
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