Kotamraju Karthik

Kotamraju Karthik is a professional Visual Effects Artist and Visual Effects Coordinator working predominantly in the Tamil film industry and also in the Hindi industry. His notable projects in Kollywood are the movies Thalaivaa of actor Ilayathalapathy Vijay which released in the year 2013. Thalaivaa being his debut movie, Kotamraju Karthik was the Visual Effects Coordinator. His other projects are Rudhramadevi, the multilingual film of actress Anushka Shetty Anushka Shetty is the popular South Indian star wh >> Read More... which released in the year 2015 and Maasu Engira Masilamani, a Suriya starrer in which Kotamraju Karthik got introduced as the Visual Effects Artist in the year 2015. He has even worked in Hollywood movies like X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadpool 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Avengers: Infinity War. Kotamraju Karthik says visual effects is a creative industry and one has to have enough passion in the art to succeed.

He has used his skills to render visual effects in many blockbuster movies like Ra One, Raavanan, Chennai Express Click to look into! >> Read More... , Dhoom 3, Ram Leela and many more. Kotamraju Karthik got also associated with the 3D period drama animated film Kochadaiiyaan starring the Tamil industry superstar Rajnikanth and directed by his daughter Soundarya Rajnikanth. Kochadaiiyaan was the first film in India to utilize the motion capture technology, and Kotamraju Karthik got bagged the opportunity to be an included in the team. When Kotamraju Karthik starts working on a project, he first finalizes a concept and designs accordingly. According to him, this is the most important task as it is when the entire project takes shape. The abstractions are visualized through storyboards and drawing. It is only after all this that the technical works start which are texturing, binding, shading, rigging, lighting, animating, rendering and so on.

Working in Kochadaiiyaan was a dream for many technicians. Kotamraju Karthik says that motion capture technology which was used in this film was old elsewhere but new to India. He was very much impressed by the artistic stylization done in Kochadaiiyaan. Since motion capture was new in India, it was hard to find suitably trained technicians to handle the project. This tech needed both high-end software and expensive hardware. Kotamraju Karthik says that in the initial stages, it was a bit difficult to trace the mistakes done by artists, but eventually, they overcame all that. Kotamraju Karthik and team use software like Maya, Motion Builder, Softimage XSI and some more from Autodesk productions for visual effects production, Eyeon Fusion and Foundry Nuke Compositor for image composition and PFTrack for background replacement. He says there is not much difference in working between Hindi and South Indian movies as an artist.