I see posts all the time talking about the million dollar special effects and such, but isn’t it just a team of people using software? Why and how do (decent) special effects have such a high price?
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> isn’t it just a team of people using software?
yes. they’re paying those people. also lots of times the software they’re using was also developed in house, so you’d be paying not just the graphics people but the programmers who developed the software. if the parent company is using a specific production company to do their effects, or entire movies like pixar, they’re paying the company as well and not just the direct labor of the employees. at that point its more of a supply/demand situation for costs since the company also needs to make a profit.
the sonic redesign cost $5 million alone, and employee labor would have been the majority of that cost (probably). it delayed the movie by 3 months. assuming the team all made a salary of 50k yearly (avg, est, etc) 5 mil will pay a team of 33ish people to work for 3 months. i’m not invested enough to see how many people worked on that team, but CGI teams are pretty big for high CGI movies currently (based on watching crazy long credits rolling)
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