Scott Squires: Why Do Visual Effects Cost So Much
Scott Squires http://effectscorner.blogspot.sg/2012/07/why-do-visual-effects-costs-so-much.html This post really paints an accurate picture of the VFX industry. I am shocked and disappointed that the huge extra miles of effort/time/money spent on the effects made invisible is also invisible to the director who should be the first person with intimate knowledge about how much work and man-hours get put into his shots, including those shots that get omitted due to editorial and storytelling decisions. If the director doesn't get an accurate picture, then I cannot set high expections that anybody else in the studio-side pipeline to really understand the true value that vfx has contributed to the film. Special features and behind-the-scene footage that come with DVD releases show only a tiny part of the volume of work that thousands VFX artists have to deal with on a daily basis, for many months from start to end of production. Even this cannot adequately describe t...