#Production budget

[saglaophonos]

my pitch is that the s3 opening scene retcon is not that they almost kissed in 1941 but that they almost kissed literally a comedic amount of times in the past. its just a montage of s1 hard times continuations that cut to kiss fakeouts

#my first act as a writer producer would be blowing the entire production design budget on sitcom bullshit #good omens

[plesiosaurys]

watcher entertainment: we can't afford to stay on youtube :( too expensive :(

also watcher entertainment:

#you guys have a budgeting problem. #people do not care about 'production quality'. they are here for the cardboard & popsicle stick puppet shows #watcher #puppet history #andy original

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

I'm so sorry I'm pretty sure your bard au is supposed to be serious but oh my god I couldn't help but get strong Men In Tights and Monty Python and the Holy Grail vibes

Especially bc of Barnaby I would not put it past him to make a "your mom's a hamster" reference

no no it Is very silly. how can it not be when you've got the neighbors as the characters? silly central. ALSO YOU'RE SO RIGHT VERY STRONG MP&HG VIBES I FUCKING LOVE THAT MOVIE HERE'S SOME REFERENCES

but it is also real. when it's silly its silly and when it's serious!

it's serious.

#one of my favorite gags in that movie has always been the coconut halves used to make horse hoof sound effects #since they didnt have horses <3 #and barnaby doesnt have hooves so. they make do! #i also like to imagine that in this au at least barnaby and frank kinda beef sometimes #like barnaby will purposefully rile frank up but then frank will say something that hits a little too close to home #so barnabys like 'ok bet' and puts a little more bite in his bark #and before you know it they have to be separated to cool off! #and also sally still doing plays. gettin artsy with em and sometimes doing puppet shows instead of a live play #a la The Professor's history show but uh. with more budget and production value #paper puppet eddie running across the stage... #scribble salad #rambles from the bog #wh fantasy au #tw blood #just in case! there's a bit there <3 #ahhh warlock wally my beloved.... #normally he is so nice and so kind and favors a pacifist route #but sometimes he gets pushed A Little Too Much and then! well! people die! #that scribble is actually from a whole Scene and Plot i have in my mind #where - essentially - he and home get separated by cultists who want to harness home or something #and after a few months of separation they reunite! #and the cult gets their shit absolutely Wrecked! literally none of them escape alive! #wally/home: we're baaaaack! time to die while we feast on your souls!

[transformers-earthspark]

I have some unfortunate news.

While it's not confirmed either way yet, it is likely that Season 2 will be Earthspark's final season.

Recent information has shown that he show has been, to put it quite frankly, a flop. By their own fault, Hasbro has only lost money from it. Earthspark was badly marketed, had mediocre toys accompanying it, and was hardly ever advertised-- not to mention the major review-bombing done by transphobes online after their discovery of its queer representation. All of this makes it highly unlikely that Hasbro will even attempt to continue the show after Season 2. (Edit: Check reblogs for clarification.)

I'll keep you updated on any further information.

#>> mod: firefly #i've gotten a lot of messages/asks about this and i'm sorry to not respond to you all #this sucks. it really sucks #it's obvious that earthspark is a project with a lot of passion and work behind it that was seriously constricted by its budget and- #-hasbro just being crappy in general #under better circumstances it could have been great; but its failure is overall a product of corporate greed #okay yeah i'll stop now. #earthspark #transformers earthspark #tf earthspark #tfe #transformers #maccadam

[sleepboysummer]

oh this set looks INSANE

#LOOK AT THIS BUDGET #UNBELIEVABLE #rtc production pictures #rtc #ride the cyclone

[faelapis]

journey to bethlehem SLAPS. it is so fucking extra. its so "high school musical but 5% more religious" that i genuinely had to double-check to make sure kenny ortega had nothing to do with it.

#journey to bethlehem #it goes so hard. i will not hear a bad word about it #you guys. it is SO high school musical that there is literally a 'bet on it' song where the male lead is singing his heart out about his #own doubts in himself complete with Visual Symbolism of two versions of him wearing white and black robes #and then he FIGHTS HIMSELF during the song #camp rock eat your heart out #this is the true successor to the hsm formula #i feel like some of you guys won’t believe me because Christian movies are usually very like. low effort low budget very safe movies #and to be clear it is quite safe. but the production values and effort is GREAT like hsm 3 levels of colorful musical camp

[peniswizard69]

If Doctor Who had a nickle for every Scottish actor that played a one-off character in s04e02 and then starred in 3 seasons of the Moffat era,

#theyd have two nickles. which isnt a lot but still more than season 1-4's combined production budget #doctor who #s02e04 the fires of pompeii #karen gillan #amy pond #peter capaldi #12th doctor

[markantonys]

readers for 20 years: wheel of time doesn't really start feeling like wheel of time until books 2 and 3. book 1 is more of a run-of-the-mill LOTR knockoff that isn't the most interesting or unique story.

readers when season 2 is more interesting, unique, and wheel-of-time-y than season 1:

#it's SO funny to me jdkfjg #sure there's also stuff like production values being higher in s2 due to a) no covid fucking with things #and b) more spare budget now that they aren't starting completely from scratch #but the vast majority of the difference is just that........s2 is based on better source material than s1 #(and i say this as someone who adored s1! very much including 1x08! i adored it and am still blown away by how s2 is even better!) #wot #wot on prime

[white-weasel]

Missed opportunity for the people at Twisted Pictures to release Bobby Dagen’s promotional DVD as bonus content similar to Full Disclosure Report or the Scott Tibbs Documentary

#I know at this point there were budget constraints and this was the last film so they weren’t gonna do all this extra work for bonus content #but consider this. I wanna see the final product #or at least the snippets of it #bobby dagen #saw vii #saw 3d #saw #saw franchise #saw series #sawposting

[askagamedev]

So how much $ (in general) does it cost to produce a fully animated/rigged, fully voiced 1-3 minute cutscene in a game that’s in ongoing development (something like SWTOR, where they have a lot of prebuilt assets)? Like just a general low range and high range?

I’m seeing a lot of people complaining about prioritizing content they want, and don’t know enough about the behind the scenes costs to properly communicate they’re being unrealistic with their complaints.

The cost of any content in game dev is directly proportional to how much new stuff needs to be created for that content. In order to create a basic conversation cutscene to put into a game, we would need:

A narrative designer to write the script for the cutscene

A cinematic designer to script out the cinematic - which characters speak, in which order, with what timing, in which location, and what other actions they would take over the course of the cutscene

Animations for the characters to play in those positions

A rig for those characters to play those animations

Character models for the characters involved

Voice recordings for the characters to speak

A tool with which to set all of these parameters and organize the cutscene

A game system that can parse the tool data and assets and construct the cutscene from them

A script system to start playing the cutscene when the proper conditions are met

This doesn't include extra stuff like VFX, music, lighting, environments, props, etc. that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes. In an ongoing game like SWTOR, element numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 were already built long ago and already exist. As long as the designers can create the characters with the in-game character creator and reuse the existing rigs, no new resources need be expended to create them. If you need a completely new custom character model, that takes time from a character artist and a texture artist. If the character needs to animate differently than everyone else (i.e. needs its own rig), that's time from a rigger to create. If the cutscene needs new animations we need to bring on an animator to spend time building the new animations needed for the cutscene.

Using some napkin math, let's consider costs. We usually use the $10,000 per month figure to pay for a developer (salary, benefits, rent, utilities, software licenses, etc.) or approximately $2,500 per development week per person. Let's assume that each task takes a developer a week to complete.

Write the script (Narrative designer)

Script the cinematic (Cinematic Designer)

Record audio (Sound Designer + Voice Actor + studio time)

Rig one new character (Rigger) x however many new characters

Animate one animation (Animator) x however many new animations

Model one new character (Character Artist + Texture Artist) x however many new characters

Track all tasks and keep everyone on schedule (Production)

Test and validate that the cutscene works (QA)

At the very minimum, we need the script, the cinematic, production, and the QA tester, so a very bare bones cutscene that reuses all assets and has no new VO (say it only reuses the alien language) would cost 4x$2,500 = $10,000. If we add voice recording and keep it to one voice actor (let's say she voices both characters in the cutscene), then the cost jumps to 7x$2,500 = $17,500 because we need the sound designer, the voice actor, and the recording studio time. Adding in two new animations (e.g. one character throwing a punch and the second character reacting to getting punched) would add another two weeks of animator time, raising the cost to 9x$2,500 = $22,500. And so on and so forth. Those costs add up very quickly.

There are ways to get a "bulk" discount of course - we hire voice actors for blocks of four or eight hours, so we can record multiple cutscenes during that session and share some of those costs. We can create one new character and reuse her across multiple cutscenes so that we get more value out of her. Things get cheaper if we reuse stuff more, but they still cost a lot up front. The bulk discounts only really work if the things we're paying for can be reused multiple times though - the more specific an asset is (e.g. a kissing animation), the harder it is to reuse and the more expensive it tends to be relative to other assets.

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[theamazingannie]

Turned off all the lights in my house and I can still see my living room better than this PJO episode

#PLEASE LEARN PROPER LIGHTING IM BEGGING YOU #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo #been watching blue water high again #a low budget show from 2005 #and the lighting is better than a gd DISNEY PRODUCTION #STOP WITH THE DARKNESS BEING BACK THE LIGHT

[myloveismineallmine]

i think the problem about the watcher situation is they literally only produce like 1-2 videos a week. if you have a channel like GMM or smosh that produce 5-6 videos a week, maybe the monthly paid subscription would be feasible? but even those channels put the vast majority of their content out for free and just offer an optional paid membership to get exclusive content. paying anywhere from $1.50 to $0.75 for one 20-40 minute video when actual streaming services offer you hours of content for around the same price just does not feel equal at all.

#watcher #i also liked their content when it felt lower production tbh #most actual reality tv IS lower production #why do you need a film level budget to watch steven lim eat caviar or to watch ryan be scared of the wind

[celestie0]

when ppl get too caught up in the accuracy of situations in fanfiction or if things are super realistic or as they should/would be in real life etc etc im like. my tumblr user in christ. it's fanfiction.

#ff writers don't get paid to put hollywood level research into their stories lol #also keep in mind ff writers don't have professional editors either #ALSO i've read a lot of published books and watched massive scale high budget production tv shows/movies that have put way less #effort into researching n making sure things are cohesive n legit compared to some fanfics i've read #js thinking ab a m00tie who had an anon come for her for something like this n i'm still pissed ab it #just enjoy the fic you're getting to read for free #like obv i think realism makes for a great story and is part of what good writing entails #but?? it's ok to bend the rules in some places?? it's a STORY #that's like getting pissed at a fantasy book for having dragons cuz they don't exist irl #just say u have a bad imagination n go #the author's pen is the will of the world in the story perioddd #either accept them or dont. but don't make fun of or criticize authors if you're not fuckin w it when ur just sittin behind a keyboard #also sometimes i just wanna read stories that don't remind me of the harsh truths of reality lmfao like get outtaaa heeerreee #just writer things

[jesncin]

my sister's house has a cat named Boots and your drawing of double stuff reminded me of her

(sorry for the double ask I forgot to include this in my last one)

- Laurance

DOUBLE STUFF IN REAL LIFE??? Note to self contact Boots to play Double Stuff in a Martian Mahunter live action movie/tv show,,,

#askjesncin #i bet this cat can voice Double Stuff in an animated show too #this cat would blow up the production budget but it would be worth it

[dragonsbluee]

Me and my brother casually discussing how we would survive in One Piece/what we would do first:

Me: I'll pull a classic isekai move; find a stable island (somehow), open up a small shop, and stay the hell out of the way. Maybe I'll open a betting ring based on the newspapers, but there's no way I'm getting involved.

Brother: Bitch you went to theatre school. You're joining the Buggy Pirates the first chance you get.

Me: ....

Brother: I've had to sit through your MULTIPLE rants on how the series treats clowns and the logistics of how they would run a pirate circus.

Me: okay but-

Brother: YOU WORK WITH CLOWNS!

#The day i realized i might be a buggy stan #Competent!buggy only though #one piece #buggy the clown #there's so much to unpack with his character and how they would run a pirate circus #How much of the pirate budget goes towards those effects (especially when you consider how expansive their big top was in the live-action) #What is the design and production value?!? #I may or may not be planning out a fic #I cannot be the only theatre obsessed person whose thought of this #theatre #buggy one piece #buggy pirates #competent buggy #isekai #I'd like to clarify that i am not an actor #i studied production

[adridoesstuff]

As a costume designer, it's kind of baffling to me that we have only one actual canon iteration of the famous Mayerling dress (the one designed by Reinhard Heinrich for the original production and 1st revival). It's baffling to me because there's a chance for a designer to insanely show off and go so wild with reinterpreting the standard Tod costume, but everyone is just squandering it.

#elisabeth das musical #der tod #mayerling dress #this isn't meant as a criticism for productions that just have a tight budget #or of productions with blocking/direction which just leave no room for the quick change #I just want to see more wild creativity in the costumes