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Workshop on visual effects budget planning

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• 18.11.2014

As computer graphics and visual effects are becoming an integral part of cinema, and the rate of development of technologies and approaches to the process grows, we believe it is important for today's cinematographers to have the basic knowledge in the field of visual effects. The workshop is designed for producers, directors, cameramen and future VFX-supervisors.

Egor Borshchevsky, director POSTMODERN DIGITAL, will tell about how a post-production budget is formed, the pricing of services for the production of visual effects, about the cooperation of producer, director and VFX department, as well as the proper planning of the filmmaking process from the perspective of the creators of computer graphics and visual effects.

The main points of the workshop:

  1. The main components of the project. Resources. Time. Budget.
  2. Problems of the industry. Unity and struggle of contradictions - Creative group vs. Producer
  3. Limits of the budget. The principal temporary stages of the budget.
  4. The use of enthusiasm. Entering the project.
  5. From the general to the special. Estimation forming.
  6. Software for budgeting. Budget form.
  7. The balance of the project. What to do if you want, but can't.

Egor BorshchevskyEgor Borshchevsky

Director POSTMODERN Digital, Ukraine. В компьютерной графике более 10 лет.

Egor Borshchevsky works in computer graphic field for more than 10 years.

He is producer of visual effects for more than 30 projects (including “Inseparable”, “Vassiliy Stalin”, “Arctic Trip”). 

Egor is the author of seminars for managing and budgeting of creative projects. Currently his goal is the development of VFX industry in Ukraine and forming management culture for creative projects associated with the production of computer graphic and visual effects for film and TV content.