Dinesan Kaprasery - Technical Director (Wireframe Studios) Interviewed by raysandlights

What's the movie "Once upon a time" about?

The story depicts a strange happening in the life of an adventurous and mischievous boy named Rahul who learns about a magical kingdom from a book gifted by a sage. The Story moves to a new dimension when Rahul and his toy kunjan accidentally lands up in a mysterious world similar to that he had read in the book. Rahul's quest to unfold the mystery of the magical land changes him to the chosen one for saving the kingdom from the evil forces of Kukkoosan the black magician and the power hungry minister.

What is the arrangement of your team work?

We are a small team of 15 members. Apart from me and Binu, our key Technical players are Sathish Valakam, Sathish Thembadath, Joshy and Hareesh. Sathish Valakam (Ponto) is our Chief animator. Sathish Thembadath takes cares of the lighting, textures and set design, Joshy heads the background design section. Hareesh works on voice casting. Apart from these key resources we have professionals handling various other areas.

More technical details about production and production style?

We are using Blender, Adobe photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Reallusion Iclone and lot other tools for our current production. Our productions style is different compared to other studios. We follow our own style. We are using 2d backgrounds for most of our scenes, these backgrounds are blended with 3d characters. Actually we had plan to release the film last December, but plans are changed due to some technical issues. Now it is set to release in April.

Future plans?

Currently we are in discussion with a Singapore based company on the production of an animated documentary film. Pre-production work of this documentary is already started. Lot other projects are in pipeline. We are planning to expand the size of our team, so that multiple projects can be handled at a time.