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How Curó Shortens the Path from Script to VFX Shot Breakdowns

By Curovfx

VFX are on the rise across film and TV production, whether it’s an action blockbuster with photoreal CG characters and explosions or an indie film that needs beauty work; a network TV hit or a niche streaming series. Getting a VFX budget set up quickly and accurately can go a long way to reduce headaches and more effectively allocate resources throughout pre-production, production, and post.

Curó meets those goals by providing a unified web-based system for creation, planning, and management of visual effects budgets for any project. Take a look at some of the advantages of Curó and how it addresses common bottlenecks:

  • Access Anywhere: As a secure web-based application, Curó can be accessed from your computer or tablet anywhere you are. From home to the office to the set, know that the latest version of your budget is readily accessible.
  • Easy Setup: To get started simply upload your script, and in minutes Curó generates a breakdown of scenes, action, and dialogue. Organize your project into sequences, create shots, new assets and FX elements, and apply tags. Curó clearly establishes each shot’s connection to the script.
  • Streamline Revisions: Curó easily merges new versions of the script and isolates changes, eliminating the time (and potential errors) of running line-by-line comparisons.
  • Leverage Tax Incentives: The CURÓ Incentives tool lets users establish relevant incentive info and apply to any cost item to automatically calculate gross and net totals.
  • Accurate Forecasting: Gross and net totals are dynamic and can be broken down by scene, sequence, and overall project. Export your budget as an Excel workbook containing a summary, shot list budget, asset budget, FX budget, facility overhead budget, VFX overhead budget, and 3D budget, with net and gross calculations reflecting incentives and fringe information.

Learn more about Curó firsthand with a free 30-day trial here. www.curovfx.com/try-curo/

Testimonials

“Joyce has a deep understanding of both the creative and production perspectives of effects filmmaking. The clarity she brings to the visual effects world helps mitigate the inherent confusion people often feel when first exposed to its complexity. She’s one of the best in the business and I’m very excited to see what the next chapter in her career brings.”

– Jon Favreau, Director – The Jungle Book, Ironman, Chef

"The rapid growth in visual effects has outpaced the industry’s ability to implement a uniform system to manage the complex and ever-changing finances of a visual effects project. Joyce Cox is the perfect person to design an application to close that gap. Joyce truly understands the ins and outs of VFX production, and her bidding and financial management process is solid and predictable having been production proven on many major studio feature films."

– David Taritero, Sr. VP VFX, Production, Disney

“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Ms. Cox for over 2 decades. Joyce has always maintained the highest degree of professionalism and her incredible track record of success proves it. Her intuitive ability to assess and solve intricate problems, along with an uncanny ability to build and manage teams are only small parts to what has driven her to the top of her field.”

– Lee Berger, Sr. VP of Production, Prime Focus World

“Joyce Cox is the finest visual effects producer I have ever worked with. Smart, aware, creative, and a real grown-up. Nothing that she encounters is beyond her producing skills, and no day passes without some humor. This is a great combination when the chips are down. She can be counted on to deliver the goods.”

– Michael Fink, Adademy Award Winning VFX Supervisor; Professor & Chair, USC School of Cinematic Arts

"CURÓ is a fantastic tool to help manage and track VFX projects. Constructing a budget and implementing changes is a breeze - a huge time saver and enjoyable to use. The cleverly designed and robust interface provides focus and attention to detail whilst remaining flexible, allowing me to work through a script in large strokes and refine the budget just the way I want to.”

– Jonathan Alenskas, freelance VFX Supervisor and Producer

"The idea that there will finally be a software program to help the VFX producing process more efficiently track the breakdown and budgeting in a more unified way is such a sense of relief! We have been waiting so long for an effective VFX budgeting tool and thank goodness we have a master like Joyce at the helm of this application!"

– Jacquie Barnbrook, VFX Bidding Producer (The Jungle Book, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Hunger Games and many more)

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The creation of visual effects encompasses art, science, technology, International commerce, politics and psychology.

Understandably, it is difficult to manage the finances of this highly complex process.  CURÓ has been designed to aid VFX producers, studios and VFX facilities in meeting this challenge.

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