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CUTTING EDGE SHAKE TESTIMONIAL.........
Cutting Edge Post are one of Australia's leading full service post production facilities, with clients nationally and internationally on high profile TVC, series and feature film productions. Their credits include advertising campaigns for General Motors, Coca Cola, ING, Nivea and Kellogg's, as well as 'The Lost World' series, 'Beastmaster', the upcoming Jet Li produced 'The Invincibles' and many other high profile international productions.

The facility uses Shake for commercial and feature film visual effects, as the primary tool of the NT Compositing department. Recently, Shake has been engaged in the creation of over 40 visual effects shots for the Indian Blockbuster, Aalavandaan, set for release in July 2001. Aalavandaan is a high profile action film featuring one of India's top stars, Kamal Hassan, playing both lead roles - twin brothers.

The main compositing challenge was realistically combining the same actor playing two roles in the same shot. Particular effects sequences include a face off in an Asylum, and a dramatic rooftop hand to hand battle between the brothers at the climax of the film. The challenges were increased by the fact that the sets of several scenes had to be dismantled mid shoot and rebuilt in a different city, often between the shooting of foreground and background plates.

Shake was used to composite many of the bluescreen shots, including the removal of tracking markers, the addition of depth of field effects, and colour matching vfx plates with drastically different exposures.

Warwick Campbell, head of the NT compositing department, has built a number of additional tools within Shake specifically for the project. These include a custom colour corrector, a selective degraining tool and a suite of tools that match the Photoshop layering effects. "Shake provides us with all the essential compositing building blocks and it also allows us to customize it as required for each job."

According to VFX Supervisor David Peers, Shake's open architecture has allowed the Cutting Edge effects artists a new level of artistic freedom. "Re-usable scripts and plugins for Shake are built by artists on a regular basis- and these new tools feed back into the compositing pathway of every job. Visual Effects involves constantly meeting new challenges, and always trying to go one better. If we ever have an idea of an effect we would like to achieve, we know we have the power to create what we're after. "

Responses:

• From: citizen (@ dialpool-210-214-8-5.maa.sify.net) on: Sun Jul 8 01:48:57
  
  fantastic
  
  
• From: Regageman (@ lvprox.bull.fr) on: Mon Jul 9 08:47:43
  
  So? Whats the relevance of this topic?
  
  
• From: chandrashekar (@ lan-202-144-88-87.maa.sify.net) on: Mon Jul 30 00:52:26
  
  when is the cassate being realeased?
  
  
• From: arivudayan (@ 203.199.228.10) on: Thu Aug 9 15:05:58
  
  Aalavandan runs into problem again. Raveeena is Pregnant now and she is uneasy and dissapointd the way Kamal has used her as a fleshball.
  
  
• From: Milton (@ palo7.pacific.net.sg) on: Fri Aug 10 04:10:20
  
  Ragageman,
  It is really not a relevant topic to you.Please don't bother.
  
  
• From: Roshan (@ 203.94.89.158) on: Fri Aug 10 06:05:48
  
  And Arivudayan, you please mind your words!!
  
  
• From: sunder (@ 210.186.71.97) on: Fri Aug 10 07:35:49
  
  hey
  arivudayavan
  
  pls kamal in tamilan
  we are tamilan
  
  why you don't like kamal
  if you don't like kamal that means you don't like all tamilans.
  
  
• From: sunder (@ 210.186.71.97) on: Fri Aug 10 07:37:56
  
  we must proud about kamal
  
  he is tamilan
  king of acting
  
  
• From: Roshan (@ 203.115.3.214) on: Fri Aug 10 08:20:09
  
  The LEGEND of Indian cinema.
  
  
• From: Roshan (@ 203.115.3.214) on: Sat Aug 11 07:33:17
  
  Sunder, that is the fate of Tamil cinema. They never try to appreciate and admire the real talent. They like praising and talking big about Hollywood actors(with the view of either putting down our own actors or to show off that they have a wide knowledge), but they will not appreciate the talents of our own Tamils'.
  
  They gain great plessure in ridiculing their own people. Kamal is a great actor. Much better than the so called Hollywoods. Even at international level no one has got his "all round" talent. As I have told before he is the LEGEND of Indian cinema and he's got all the talents rights to be called the best even at international level.
  
  
• From: ishvar (@ 202.190.79.4) on: Tue Aug 21 05:16:13
  
  Dear roshan and sunder,
  
  i do agree both of you. keep it up guys.
  have not much time to write more.
  
  
• From: Milton (@ palo2.pacific.net.sg) on: Tue Aug 21 13:57:22
  
  Roshan,
  They like praising and talking big about Hollywood actors(with the view of either putting down our own actors or to show off that they have a wide knowledge), but they will not appreciate the talents of our own Tamils'.
  
  Wow!That is a perfect thought which arises from real appreciaters.That shows people's slavary mentality and ignorance.People has a analysing capacity never do like this.These people are 'Araivekkadu',so they don't have a openion by their thought ,they just see how majority people say and just follow it like 'Semmari Aadu'
  
  
  
• From: sowmya (@ 202.9.180.144) on: Thu Aug 23 00:32:02
  
  i just want know about the songs and the music
  direction since shanker mahadevan is my favourite.
  he is always the best. hats off to kamal for choosing him.
  
  
• From: Fiona (@ 144.138.200.166) on: Thu Aug 23 04:34:27
  
  Are there any women around here, what is up with all of you guys, you are getting your knickers in a knot over nothing
  
  
  
• From: Real_Kamal_Fan (@ 202.131.155.13) on: Thu Aug 23 23:55:46
  
  Hello friends,
  The Aalavandan songs are good but not fit for such a big budget movie.
  What I mean is that the songs are actually very much part of the film and not 'item numbers'
  Even Mahanadi and Guna had such songs which goes along with the movie. But those were relatively low budget movies compared to Aalavandan.
  When Kamal makes movies with such big budget, it should have the so called 'item' numbers to attact the masses as in Tenali or Indian.
  What Kamal is trying to do is make a Great movie.
  Personally I like and enjoy Mahanadi more than Tenali.
  But he should be concerned about the budget also.
  See, Indian was a big budget movie and also a good movie. Shankar could have made it a better movie by including only 2 or 3 songs which fit to the film. But then the collection will come down.
  In Aalavandan what will happen is the collection will come down because of the not so popular songs.
  You agree or not agree, it is a fact that most of the Kamal fans want him to dance in his films.
  So what I feel is that he should go for a big budget movie only if he can include filmi songs and entertainment. Otherwise he should make a low budget but a great movie.
  He could have done one low budget good movie, then a high budget 'masala' movie one after another...
  
  
• From: arivudiyan (@ 203.199.228.212) on: Sat Aug 25 15:26:07
  
  Ayyo paavam kamal kitte mattindu manishum raveenavum rombe kashtem . inthe rendu pombalaiyum paavam ippo vandhi edukkuranga!
  
  Kamal is a sex maniac and he looks in women a way to satisfy his lust
  
  Porki Kamal Aalavandhan naayike poranthavan naayodu kudumba nadathara oru Therun_a_ayi Oru SoriNayii
  
  

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