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Breakdown and Budget a Whole Film. Solo.

For independent VFX supervisors and producers who have to run the whole department themselves. This is the method behind Breakdown Studio, taught end to end, so you can do it on your own show.

What the course covers

The method, end to end

Reading a cut like a budget
Turning an edit into a shot count and a VFX subset you can defend, before a single bid goes out.
The pipeline that survives a re-cut
Building a breakdown that updates instead of getting rebuilt every time the picture changes.
Judgment versus automation
Where to let a tool run unattended, and where a supervisor's eye has to stay in the loop.
Briefing an AI pair with guardrails
Getting real leverage from an AI assistant on a live production without handing it the master file.

Who it is for

Independent VFX supervisors and producers who take on a film without a department behind them: no coordinator, no second supervisor, and a budget and a schedule that still have to be right. If that is your seat, this course is built from doing that job, not from teaching around it.

What it is

Not a tutorial on one tool. A method for carrying a whole film's VFX breakdown and budget alone: what to automate, what stays a judgment call, and how to brief an AI assistant to carry the mechanical half without losing control of the numbers. Breakdown Studio is the reference implementation; the course is how to run the method on your own show, with or without it.

Pricing and timing

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