ApexVFX

22/12/2024

Sri Siddha VFX Breakdown is here!
Completed in 2019, we crafted over 125 shots for this project in just under 6 months. It was a journey filled with challenges, learning, and a whole lot of fun!

Shout-out to our incredible team at ApexVFX, who brought this cinematic vision to life. Visual Effects Supervisor, Kasun Malinda, and the rest of the team, Buddhika Vidanapathirana, Tharindu Hashan, Sandaruwan De Silva, Kiran Irugalbandara, Ramesh Thilanga.

We hope you enjoy this glimpse behind the scenes as much as we enjoyed creating it!

https://youtu.be/9a8p6vz_Sik
(YT link for better quality viewing)

03/09/2023

Tsunami was an ambitious project ApexVFX undertook back in early 2019. ApexVFX worked on 130+ shots on a tight deadline with a small vfx crew and on a very tight budget compared to the size of the project. Unfortunately, a few key shots are missing in this breakdown due to an archiving issue.

ApexVFX was involved from the pre-production stage, collaborating with the director, Somaratne Dissanayake, the cinematographer, Vishwa Balasooriya, and the producer, Renuka Balasooriya, to plan the shots to utilize the limited budget. Throughout the production stage, ApexVFX was On-set supervising vfx shots with the help of the rest of the film crew to optimize the result with the given resources.

The post-production phase was on a tight deadline with 10 months to finalize 130+ shots. With a few large-scale water/destruction simulations and full CG environments, it looked nearly impossible at times. Some vfx crew members had to wear multiple hats working as both compositors and CG artists, even some artists taking on some aspects they had never worked on before. Despite all the challenges, the crew got together and pulled it through to the finish line.

VFX Crew:
VFX Supervisor: Kasun Malinda

CG Team:
Sandaruwan De Silva
Buddhika Vidanapathirana
Mihiran Sampath
Kasun Malinda

Compositors:
Hashan Ranasinghe
Kasun Malinda
Buddhika Vidanapathirana

FX:
Kasun Malinda
Mirco Paolini

DMP:
Kiran Irugalbandara

Roto:
Ramesh Thilanga

Tsunami was an ambitious project ApexVFX undertook back in early 2019. ApexVFX worked on 130+ shots on a tight deadline with a small vfx crew and on a very t...

18/09/2018

08/10/2017

"Sarigama" won the Award for Best Visual Effects at Derana Film Awards 2017.
Overall it was an interesting and challenging project.Backyard was shot at Kala Wawa (Anuradhapura), House exterior and front gate were shot at Adisham bungalow (Haputale), house interior was shot at Richmond castle bungalow (Kalutara). Our task was to create the illusion that all these geographically distant locations merge together seamlessly, so it creates one grand location, which doesn't exist in Sri Lanka. We added a mountain range around Kala Wewa (references were shot at Belihuloya) so it looks like it’s a part of the hill country.

Special thank goes to Director Dr.Somarathne Dissanayaka and Producer Renuka Balasooriya for giving us the chance to work on this movie. And Vishwa Balasooriya for recommending us 🙂. Also, all the cast and crew who worked on this project to make it a success.
Here is the VFX Breakdown of the project.

06/10/2017

Won the award for the Best Visual effects at Derana film awards for "Sarigama"

13/08/2017

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