The more you can get in camera, the better the soil will be to grow great VFX in.
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“Talk to a VFX supervisor you trust early in the process,” says director and visual effects supervisor Bruce Branit, who has worked on countless TV and film projects and directed shorts such as “405.” “It’s as important a position in pre-production as the DP or art director. The advice we heard time and again? Get the VFX team involved early. “We can come up with solutions in production that indie moviemakers might not be thinking about, because they’re concentrating on making sure they can get everything in the can.” Get Started, Effect-ive Immediately “We do a lot of work on replacing signage in the backgrounds of shots where there might be legal clearance issues,” says visual effects supervisor Matt Bramante from Los Angeles VFX studio Locktix. Ultimately, working out what visual effects to use within your budget isn’t really that much different from working out what locations to shoot and what costumes you need. Indeed, VFX can sometimes save money on production. Yet our experts all say that you shouldn’t immediately presume visual effects are going to be expensive. How you use visual effects, and how much you use them, will of course depend on the story you want to tell, and on your budget. But there are a plethora of other uses for visual effects: stunts, green-screen and blue-screen compositing, simulating natural phenomena, bullet hits and many more.
Hear “VFX” and people think immediately of CG characters and out-of-this-world environments.
We asked some of the best visual effects artists in the field to burst some misconceptions and reassure your producers: Hey, that sequence is possible! Do You Need VFX? Independent features can make the most of visual effects by using them in smart ways. 1 Comment The average indie moviemaker: “Visual effects? Not on my budget.”.
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