Mahadev's blogShiva’s Legacy : The Lost Shivling is a short fantasy animation. The idea revolves around depicting a Shivling, an abstract symbol representing the Hindu deity SHIVA, concealed within an Indian cave. This cave, once a place of worship, now remains secluded and inaccessible to people. The message conveyed is that the past can never be buried forever.
VFX Breakdown
IDEA
“The idea is to create a cave environment with sun rays passing directly to a SHIVLING (an abstract representation of Hindu God SHIVA) set on a stage. There is a small water body and a bridge connecting directly to the stage like structure where the Shiv-ling is kept. A small waterfall is present where water directly falls on top of the Shiv-ling. The scene starts at another environment where a door between two giant rocks open and leads directly to the cave environment. There are fire lanterns, plants and maybe a few broken down statues (if time allows me) present inside the cave. A walk-through from the bridge directly to the Shiv-ling and a 360 degree rotation around it.”
MOODBOARD
“I was thinking about creating an environment in a jungle with the ruins from sort of an ancient civilization like Mayan, Incan or Aztec with a large temple sort of like pyramid shaped made of stones almost in a deteriorating state with fungus and plants growing in it and broken statues surrounding it. There would be trees in the frame, a small pond maybe with a few flowers like water lily maybe and a dark, cloudy sky. A meteor shower passes by and makes a small impact on the ground maybe faraway with a shockwave passing through to the camera. “
{The scene opens with the camera showcasing a door in the jungle much like the picture below and the camera slowly moves forwards and the door opens, and they enter a dark cave and at the end another door opens to show the Mayan temple and surroundings}
“I was thinking about doing the temple modelling in MAYA and then the environments in Unreal Engine.”
The above said concept was not up to the level I thought it would become once I started modelling and creating my environment. So I have started working on another theme and concept scrapping this one fully because I didn’t like the outcome of the one I started working on.