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CURÓ BidMaker – VFX Bidding, Simplified

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CURÓ BidMaker - Create Custom Bid Packages for your vendors.

April 8, 2020 - Hollywood, California

Now that your breakdown & preliminary budget are complete, how do you create and track all your vendor bids?  Managing this process is complex, inefficient and time consuming. And, receiving vendor bid submissions in different formats makes it laborious to compare and analyze.

CURÓ BidMaker streamlines and unifies this volatile process across the studios, production entities, and digital facilities from anywhere in the world. With BidMaker, users create Custom Bid Packages with standard templates for each project for one or more vendors, on a shot-by-shot, asset-by-asset, fx-by-fx, and overhead-by-overhead basis. Returned bids are then imported back into BidMaker for easy comparison & analysis.

 “BidMaker saves time and increases accuracy in the creation, distribution and analysis of VFX bids with multiple vendors. This new toolset allows VFX producers to create custom bid packages for each of their facilities they work with, and then import the completed bid requests into BidMaker for analysis. A producer can review incoming bids from vendors on all aspects of the VFX budget, as well as look at a vendor-by-vendor comparison of the overarching budget.” – Joyce Cox

 

With CURÓ BidMaker:

Create Custom Bid Packages for one or more vendors including:

  • Shots, Misc. Shots, Assets, FX, Facility Overhead and Stereo 3D.
  • Technical specifications including aspect ratio, resolution, framerate, and more.
  • Project Schedule Dates and timelines.
  • Project Materials with descriptions and external links to assets and materials.
  • Bid Specifications with general notes can be created to accompany bid request.
  • Generate and publish CURÓ bid request package spreadsheets for each vendor containing cost and informational aspects of the bid package.

Bid Request Package Import

Import Bid Request Spreadsheets completed by each Vendor into your CURÓ budget. Analysis tools include:

  • Full Comparisons of all aspects of incoming bids from your vendors.
    • Shots, assets, FX, Overhead across all vendors for all frame rate and resolution versions requested
  • View & compare various award scenarios to the production’s preliminary budget estimates.
  • Review vendor questions and comments.
  • Add accepted bids into the budget estimates.

About CURÓ

CURÓ was born out of the entertainment industry’s need for a unified system for the financial planning and management of visual effects, the fastest growing segment of the film industry. CURÓ was developed based on product-proven best practices and methodologies applied to some of the top-grossing VFX films of the past two decades including The Jungle Book,” “Men in Black III,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Avatar,” and “Titanic.” VFX Producers have used CURÓ to manage recent shows such as “The Mandalorian”, “American Gods”, “The 100” and the new feature release “Dune”.

Phase one of CURÓ focused on the VFX producers and studio VFX departments, providing tools for initial breakdown and preliminary budgeting of digital and overhead production costs.  CURÓ BidMaker is available now.  The CURÓ Vendor module with tools for a digital facility's detailed bidding of human and technical resources is slated for release the summer of 2020.

Learn more about CURÓ firsthand and sign up now with a free 30-day trial here.

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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