नेय्मलस

नेय्मलस started as a live-cum-animated project in 2001 that used cutting edge animation techniques infused with traditional Indian puppetry and style. Sadly, this project had to be abandoned because the technology to realize this uncanny fantasy was not yet there and so we waited.

With the current advances in technology, we once again thought of reviving this project, and here we are with the first series called "The Ghost Machine".

So what is this film नेय्मलस all about! Well, to be short, it is nothing more than a series of 10 science fiction and ghost stories stitched together to explore, entertain and dive deeply into the very metaphysics of technology that today comes to control, shape and transform every little fiber of what we understand to be our reality. Our sole reality.

The story has a spooky side and each of the 10 films hint at the underlying background intelligence that today orders and realizes everything. For starters, I have published some of the rough drafts of the story on-line and can be read at my site here. (these have nothing to do with the actual film whose timeline and story are obviously different but can be seen as a good exercise in storytelling.)

The film replaces the old tried and tested photo cutout animation techniques and the traditional Indian puppetry by using current (inhouse) digital pipeline and CG work flow, and almost every bit of it is being realized using open-source software such as 'Blender'.

Nine years may sound like a long time to get the film going, but it is quite short compared to what it is trying to achieve and the problem it is trying to tackle head on.

In the progress blog we will be posting clips, tests, tutorials and workflow discussions on technical bottlenecks that we encounter during the production of the film.
Also please note that it not only uses open-source but also open-form production techniques.


Shaily & Rajiv Mudgal
neymlus@darkwhite.in