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VFX studio celebrates Adam Sandler's `Click'

Staff Reporter

Artists created digital effects for 137 shots

GOING GLOBAL: S. Abhaya Kumar (left) and Krishnakant Mishra address the media on Thursday. - PHOTO: K. PICHUMANI

CHENNAI: Visual effects artists and animators of Frameflow, a city-based visual effects studio, on Thursday celebrated their participation in Adam Sandler's latest flick `Click'. The comedy that hit U.S. screens in June this year is set for local release soon.

At the preview screening at a theatre in Nungambakkam, Frameflow's employees cheered as their work unfolded. Most of their work involved creating digital effects on the central character of the movie: the remote control that Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) uses to gain control over his life. Or so he thinks.

The digital effects for the movie include adding digital display to the "stand-in" remote control prop, some clean-up and roto work. The animators worked on the project at the state-of-the-art facility here. Interacting with the media before the movie's screening, Frameflow's managing director S. Abhaya Kumar and creative director Krishnakant Mishra said the sheer volume of the work done by their team for the Sony Pictures-Imagework production was enough to make it a landmark collaboration. "We have completed visual effects for 137 shots in the movie within a span of three months. The studio was happy that we did that without compromising on the quality of work. They even offered us more shots than what they originally planned." Frameflow executives said they were getting offers from other studios as well but did not want to reveal the details. For more details, log on to www.frameflow.com.

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