My name is Orion and I'm afraid but I'm most afraid of the dark. Is it me or am I more excited about this than you are? Nooran in the dark was my fifth show with Mikros and it was a great opportunity to be a part of this show. As this was the first feature animation which was primarily done in Mikros animation Bangalore. And it was also my first feature film. It was a great opportunity. Oran came with a bunch of challenges for each and every department and a lot of things we had to achieve which was a combined effort of two or three or maybe more departments to achieve that. For example this movie has a theme of watercolor, paper, texture and tool lines so all these required a lot of R&D back and forth between the departments. Considering the visual style how we achieved in post it is something like we have to work out on achieving a painterly look almost in each and every shot where we have used some of the custom made softwares to achieve the painterly effect and almost to get the tool line effect on top of all the 3D environments which is something very new. As a team we have cracked how to implement those brushstrokes in each and every environment and set to get exactly what we want. Based on the color art it is not only on the environment even in any of the clouds we see the patterns, each and everything will have the painterly brushstroke effect. That is something really amazing work what we have delivered us. Oran and Doug had a lot of special characters. We call them as night entities like sleep, dreams, insomnia and explain noises. So each of these characters had a specific characteristic and a unique functionality which we need to give it. So traditional rigging approach did not work here. We did a lot of customization of the rig puppet and we also collaborated with animation and the CFX team to make a balance between what needs to be achieved with cloth and first simulation and what can be handled with a procedural rig approach. The best part of it was more of a collaborative approach where we were working together hand in hand with the directors from Dreamworks and they were also very cooperative. They were really receptive to the suggestions that we made. All the final look and feel that we achieved was a process of evolution from the design stage to all the iterations and R&D that we did along the process. And finally this is where we are in the final look and feel of the movie. For example, the kind of details on every single edge of every element that you see in a background is all hand modeled. And then nothing is symmetrical, nothing is parallel, everything has got some asymmetries and non-parallel, little bit lean or shift towards one direction. All of that had to be manually modeled and every artist had to specifically pay attention. It had to be done in such precise level that if it is not too loud you have to maintain that balance that everything is having the rhythm. In addition to the edge details there is also if you look carefully at every frame there is this very fine 2D lines that we see generally in the comic book. So that is again something that we did a lot of R&D, we tried a lot of procedural methods. We have worked on tune shaders and tune lines in many previous projects. And then we found a way where we still get that edge break up at the same time. It works in all the angles that we see but it is not never about showing each and every leaf detail. And then similar approach we also had to try out even for the characters hair. For example, Orion's hair, the development of hair itself went on multiple iterations where the original design, the hair was not supposed to have too much of details. So we had to find different ways and approaches and finally get to the look that we finally have on that show. And similar approaches applied for many of the other main characters as well. And my favorite scene from Orion will be when the Orion and the dark they meet for the first time. And it is very funny and also Orion is very scared but it is a great start of this movie. And it is also a start of an amazing adventure they will go through. There is a short when he finally he drops or he to his house but he doesn't want to leave the one who was fearing dark earlier. That is kind of a very, I mean dark himself is very happy with what he has achieved. And what he has done so far so that is the kind of a scene which was very touching and amazing. We were all super excited to be part of this feature film and it has boosted all the team's confidence to a very high extent.