Elsevier The Visual Effects Producer book Film 416 pages

Understanding the Art and Business of VFX
By
Charles Finance, Visual Effects Producer for George of the Jungle, The Arrival, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and Dune
Susan Zwerman, Susan Zwerman is a highly respected Visual Effects Producer who has been producing visual effects for more than 20 years. She is also a well-known seminar leader and author.

Description
Go behind the scene of the behind the scenes to learn how the business of producing the dazzling visual effects we see in movies and on TV works.

With decades of combined VFX production and supervisory experience in Hollywood, the authors share their experience with you, illuminating standard industry practices and tips on:
- preproduction planning
- scheduling
- budgeting
- evaluating vendors and the bidding process
- effective data management
- working on-set, off-set, or overseas
- dealing with changes in post-production
- legal issues (contracts, insurance, business ethics), and more

Also included are interviews with established, successful Hollywood VFX Producers about their career paths and how they got to where they are now.

From pre-production to final delivery, this is your complete guide to visual effects production, providing insight on VFX budgeting and scheduling (with actual forms for your own use) and common production techniques such as motion control, miniatures, and pre-visualization.

Audience:
VFX supervisors, VFX producers, assistant producers, production coordinators, VFX artists aspiring to become VFX producers, vfx students; Secondary: film producers and directors incorporating VFX in their films who need to know more about costs, delivery expectations, etc., postproduction generalists