Makuta Visual Effects is an Indian visual effects and animation company based in Hyderabad, India. They migrated the majority of their pipeline to Blender in 2019 with one or two scenes in a feature called Gang Leader. Pete Draper, CEO and Co-Founder of MakutaVFX, shares some insights in the usage of Blender during the production of the epic action drama RRR.

A long-time 3ds Max user, Makuta adopted Blender as primary 3D creation tool during the production of the VFX for RRR. As one major introduction scene had been delivered and signed off by the client, thanks to the Cycles for Max port of the Cycles renderer for 3ds Max, we decided the time was right for the transition around November 2019. Since then we delivered 700 shots for the RRR feature with our work being the prominence in the international trailer.

Blender was used in our entire pipeline aside from the FX department, from asset production through to final 3D rendering, primarily utilising 2.83, culminating in 2.92. read more