Role: Matte Painting Lead and VFX Photographer for this shot, and 50+ other matte painting shots featured in this Bollywood feature film. This Bollywood, period drama required the recreation of multiple streets of Calcutta, India from 1942. This was a team effort that tooks months to achieve by the VFX and matte painting teams at Prana Studios, India.
Challenge
The feature film Detective Byomkesh Bakshy (2015), directed by Director Dibakar Banerjee, required recreating this street pictured alongside (photographs provided by the client). The matte painting was initially recreated for a test pitch and then detailed for the final shot used in the feature film.
Solution
For this, I travelled to the Calcutta today (Kolkatta, India), to photograph textures that would aid our efforts of recreating buildings & streets that no longer exist. Subsequently, a team of us matte painters, spent months detailing the matte painting alongside the VFX crew. Included alongside are frames from the green screen shoot and the final projected, matte painting shot.
