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dc days Seminar: “Budgeting and Planning VFX Projects”

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29.08.2008
Speaker Sacha Bertram provides professional advice on VFX producing.
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The seminar lasts approximately three hours and covers the following areas:

VFX fundamentals:

  • Overview of VFX techniques: animatronics, miniatures, motion control,

motion capture, 2D animation, 3D animation and compositing

  • The VFX supervisor, VFX producer and other responsibilities
  • Visual effects within the production sequence

Managing VFX projects

  • Workflow of a conventional VFX production
  • Different options for resolving dramatic requirements in the screenplay

  • VFX breakdown and budgeting

  • Project planning and project controlling

  • Recruitment and team building

    • Sacha Bertram is the owner of idagrove|filmeffects and has been one of Germany’s best-known and most frequently booked freelance VFX producers and supervisors for many years. He works for companies including CA Scanline, Elektrofilm and Liga01.

    One of his most recent projects was on-set supervision as VFX producer for the television event movie “Das Inferno — Flammen über Berlin”. Alongside his practical work, he is an author, lecturer at several film schools and software developer.

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    Topics: Digital Art| Supervisor| VFX| skipped
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