The second day of the Bengaluru GAFX Conference 2017 organised by the State government witnessed a range of exciting sessions, workshops, and competitions on Saturday. The event will conclude on Sunday.
On Saturday, events ranging from the making of Baahubali VR to the Fast & Furious 8: VFX behind the scenes, to competitions on character animation, traditional painting, 3D gaming art, digital painting and various hackathons to workshops on scripting in animation, and visual effects were all organised as part of the conference.
IT/BT Minister Priyank Kharge kicked off the event on Friday. Speaking about the making of Baahubali , Pete Draper, co-founder, VFX Supervisor - Makuta VFX said, “It took us sometime to realise how big the feature film actually was. It was only during the post production phase that we realised that the movie was going to be really huge.”
Shuzo John Shiota, CEO of Polygon Pictures, s poke on the animation industry. Naveen Kumar, founder, MRT Studios, spoke about the Kannada film industry’s visual effects.