I took another look at Blender and saw that it had been updated since I last used it. After I completed all 3 of the tutorials for Anim8tor, I wanted to learn more, but that was it. It was way more complicated so I closed it and went back to Anim8tor. Then, while searching for tutorials to actually figure out how to use the software, I found ‘Blender 2.28’. It was horrible but I was pretty proud of myself for my first day. Well, it was more like a green baseball bat with stick arms that wobbled as some text appeared on the screen. Crazy right? I messed around with it for the day and managed to create my first ever animation: A cactus that waved and said, “Hello”. I was intrigued that someone would create software and give it away for free. Way back in the time of dial-up internet (2003), I found a piece of freeware called ‘ Anim8tor’. Check out the interview below to peak inside the mind of the animator/actor/comedian. It does reveal the ‘truth’ and also makes you wonder whether the crime that unfolds is indeed ‘antim’.We are thrilled to present Wayne Dixon - our newest CG Cookie instructor! Wayne is a gifted animator and teacher who is focusing on our Blender animation curriculum, beginning with a new course called the " Animation Bootcamp" (launching very soon). There is a very important dialogue that Salman Khan mouths, which is thay ‘as police, we just supply raw material to the world of crime’. Nonetheless, the film does carry a message of crime doesn’t pay, but then it doesn’t stop either. Now that the actress doesn’t hold herself well on screen, it’s just that one is more invested in the rise of Aayush in the gangster space with several other characters coming together (Upendra Limaye being the most prominent) and hence you rather want to have a dekko at what happens there. Here, what brews between Aayush and newcomer Mahima Makwana could well have done away with in entirety. Frankly, given the kind of film that Antim – The Final Truth is, it could well have done away with the entire romantic angle. However, one would have expected him to roar really loud at least once.įor a gangster movie, this one surprisingly stayed subdued at a few other junctures as well, especially when it comes to the love story. In fact the tricks that he plays (though seen in earlier movies also) to finish the gangs is done well too. The interval sequence is done well and from there on the second half has a lot of Salman Khan in there, that should help his fans cheer aloud. The scenes featuring him and Ayush are well done but then one expects a lot more volatility. Yes, the scenes featuring Salman Khan seem to be ‘placed’ as item sequences, especially in the first half. It is to credit of Mahesh Manjrekar and his editor Bunty Negi that the drama moves forward well for most part of the narrative. However, it is difficult to digest that why the youngster would commit the exact same crimes that had robbed him of his childhood. Agreed that he had quite a lot of anger inside him since his farmer father Sachin Khedekar had to let go of his ‘zameen’ and turn into a poor coolie at a loading/unloading house. That said, it’s the world that he steps in which raises a few questions. He in fact comes across as angry right from his younger days and hence the transition isn’t abrupt per se when he becomes a gangster in the unlikely city of Pune. The good thing is that the actor actually tries and changes his entire persona to bring on a wronged-man act in this redux version. Though between 20 not many films were repeated in the same genre, Mahesh Manjrekar now brings on Antim – The Final Truth which picks the same thread of his Sanjay Dutt starrer Vaastav and asks one film old Aayush Sharma to fill in the big shoes. Mahesh Manjrekar, Ram Gopal Varma, Madhur Bhandarkar took forward this formula and exposed the stark reality of crime and criminals. Over the years it went on to enjoy cult status amongst film lovers and especially the first decade of the new millennium saw quite a few films on underworld been made with a common man turning into a gangster. Back in 1999 when Vaastav had released, it had emerged as a good success at the box office.
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