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Animation VFX

From the beginning, Timeline has been working on assignments ranging from minor to major in the area of Visual Effects and Animation. The range of work includes Television Commercials, Corporate Videos that needed a bit of effects here and there, a handful of Feature Films that needed something special, Television Promos and many other similar things.

Yes is a small company from NY. USA doing short digital films. The title design was commissioned to us prior to their film’s release.
Process
The sequence is a live shot rotoscoped and created manually in vector form. The basketball on fire was added later on a separate layer of 3D. Both the player and the Ball [...]

The assignment was to create a backdrop for a road race with a city top view as the backdrop. We came up with this.
Process
Initially an idea of our virtual space was drawn out on paper. What type of buildings, how much shadow, what type of bridges and vehicles are we going to accommodate, how many [...]

We have worked with Kirby Building Systems many a times but this was by far the most complicated of Structural Design presentation just by the scale of components involved. The shed to be depicted in the virtual walk through was half a kilometer long. This meant that the amount of detailing inside the shed had [...]

A simple presentaion for a gaming company with a very very tight deadline.
Five people pooling their heads in from five locations over the internet, uploading and downloading updates over the net.
Step 1 We identified a format to carry out the project.
Step 2 To ensure that everyone’s thinking the same, a PPT file was employed and [...]

This was done for a local film upon the huge success of “the original Dancing Car” created for the Citroen TVC. True to movie traditions, the sequence was adapted to add to an existing song in the movie. Our choice of vehicle, a Honda CRV. Showcased sequence is a part of the original sequence.
The process involved making [...]

Simple and innovative, the concept was provided by the client and we executed them in under 5 days time. The sequences are basic plate animation in 2D Animation Softwares which does it’s job. Basic plates are created in Image Creation and Modification softwares and then animated in layers to get the desired effect.
Concept to delivery time [...]

Motion graphics were produced to launch Satyam’s new emergency services in Hyderabad. The clips were added to a film produced by the company in Hyderabad. The Project was done through Mokshaa who were involved in creating the actual film. The ideas for the animation were provided to us in base form by Mokshaa.

A visualisation of the Kalachakra for a film on Budhhism by Bhairav Films, Hyderabad. The objective was to create animated clips based on the architecture of the Kalachakra with an Ethereal look. The first versions of the visualization were very direct, although over time we developed it into an Architectural Form or Building depicting each circle of the [...]

Things kept short and sweet look good, this was Imran’s first attempt at directing a film all by himself… When in Melbourne, and you have a Camera at your disposal, do what Imran did.. We just helped him finish it up. Cheers Imran !!
The film was shot on DV in widescreen format. We took [...]

Simple animated TVC, Low-Budget, we tried to give out best within the budget. Two films were made. The concept was provided by the agency and we just topped it up a little to look good.
Both the 30 second clips were done within a span of 14 days. Involving talking cups and saucers, was a fun [...]