eli5: Why do great animations and cgi need a big budget?
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Watch the credits for any Marvel movie. Iron Man 3 had 2031 VFX artists, according to IMdB.
Nowadays there are more pre-vis and whatnot, but 6 months is not unusual for the time it takes for a blockbuster. Let’s just assume those 2000 people make $80k a year, so $40k for those 6 months, that comes out to **$80M just in salaries**.
Salaries are just part of it, the VFX studios need to make a profit too, especially considering all the programs they use (some they create themselves!!!) and the cost of running their server farms (tons of computers connected to speed up the processing; the black hole scene in Interstellar took **100 computer hours per a frame**, that’s 100 computer days per second).
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