week 1 - update

ok.spent the weekend watching DVDs- the LOTR trilogy, Alexander, Troy and Tarzan(the Disney animation version), supplemented with The Scorpion King on television. Hope this gives me material enough to help visualize the legend of Karna(of mahabharata).

As for the story, been listenin in on it from childhood-from mom and grandma, through Amar Chitra Katha comics and of course the telly mega-serial. But all of them lack the visual detail - mostly coz starngely enuf there hasn't been any fan-fiction/art for this great Indian epic (unlike Tolkien's LOTR for which Jackson got a lot of help from supplementary art). So this is one thing i have to do from scratch- quite a mammoth task for a first time project...still lets see.

As for the feel of the film, I want the "painted" 3D modelled effect as in "Prince Of Egypt". Actually I want it to look a whole lot like POE. My Karna would physically resemble a mix of Disney's Tarzan and Dreamworks' young Moses(POE). Considering that POE was a Dreamworks SFX extravaganza, this seems a daunting task on my Desktop PC!

And since my trusted wallet is empty, I would do all this with opensource downloaded software on a 512MB, Intel PentiumP4 2.4GHz...or so I hope :-) (refer Charlies Angel Drew Barrymore's quote starting "And since my trusted lighter...")


so wht next? A trailer. Yep tht wud give me a feel of the rudimentary elements in the movie and also provide me with some enthusiasm (besides having sthg to show u folks ( though I doubt anyone is reading in on this(not tht it matters) ) ).