how is it possible to have such huge budgets for animation movies???
can anyone explain what are the biggest cost drivers for pixar in spending 200+ mills on a movie??
can anyone explain what are the biggest cost drivers for pixar in spending 200+ mills on a movie??
1 director
3 writers
20 voice actors
5 producers
1 music composer
2 cinematographers
12 editing
5 casting
1 production designer
2 art directors
2 production managers
14 art department
42 sound department
85 visual effects
68 animation
46 music
1 continuity
77 additional crew
Are "animators" doing the original character/flow design work and then visual effects people punch up backgrounds/lighting/textures etc. and doing the rendering?
Visual Effects do wind, water, smoke, fire, cloth, etc.
They dont work fulltime 40 hours per week on a single movie, do they? Its more like few hours here and there, as needed
Absolutely not.
They work 50+ hour weeks for 2+ years (discounting the much smaller team doing pre-production).
A million for each main voice actor
$100k for supporting actors
Orchestral score (not many people can do those)
$50k per licensed song
Work on the "game engine" that supports the film (each film used to break technical ground... Fur in monsters Inc, hair in the Incredibles, etc)
Motion capture, clay modelling, 3D modelling, rigging, animating... everybody needs a studio quality machine and display...
The only thing I feel confident isn't a big chunk of the cost is the actual rendering.
https://nofilmschool.com/why-pixars-24000-core-supercomputer...
It can get more complicated (and expensive) if you want to hire someone to play one or more parts for real.