🎨 3D Rendering & VFX · Sankey
VFX Project Budget Sankey
How a VFX project budget splits across departments, render costs, supervision and margin.
Drawing diagram…
What this diagram shows
- Artist time in departments is the largest cost
- Rendering and storage are significant on heavy FX shows
- Supervision and production management take a fixed slice
Prompt used
Sankey of 100 units of a VFX project's budget: department artist costs (modelling, animation, FX, lighting, compositing), render and storage costs, supervision and production, software licences and studio margin.
Mermaid code
sankey-beta Project Budget,Department Artists,58 Project Budget,Render and Storage,12 Project Budget,Supervision and Production,14 Project Budget,Software Licences,6 Project Budget,Studio Margin,10 Department Artists,Modelling and Texturing,10 Department Artists,Animation,12 Department Artists,FX,13 Department Artists,Lighting,11 Department Artists,Compositing,12
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