Charles Speyer: Producer, transmedia producer and business development/sales in San Diego, California.

Hello,

I am putting together some numbers for potential investors and am having trouble finding some examples of how much studios and streamers have spent on fully developed scripts with attachments.

Any suggestions would be most welcomed.

Thank you,

Charles

I am award-winning Director with over 8 years of directing/producing experience, specializing in computer animation.

I have directed more than 20 hours of television and won an Annie Award for Best Children’s Animated Series and was nominated for an Annie Award for Best Directing in an Animated Series.

In 2008, my team of directors was nominated for an Emmy Award® for Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program. The following year, Back at the Barnyard earned an Emmy Award® for Outstanding Animated Program Special Class.

The prequel to my first feature, a short film titled, Help Me First!, was shot in early spring and premiered with rave reviews at Fantastic Fest 2016. The website for the movie can be found at www.helpmethetmovie.com.

I have been teaching animation online for over 12 years. Most of that time is with Animation Mentor as well as teaching individual animation students around the world. In the spring of 2017, I started teaching at the University of Cincinnati. He’s helped build the animation program as the only teacher, fostering the Certificate of Animation program within the Digital Media Collaborative.

My first feature live action film, Beaten Path, is in the middle of securing financing of $2mm. I hope to shoot the film in the spring of 2021.

Finally, in my spare time, I created a software development company called Filmatick. We secured funding from a major grant, employing 6 people. We work with Final Draft. Our company’s flagship software, a pre-visualization tool for filmmakers, is now available for purchase. www.filmatick.com

If you would like to talk about preproduction reach out to my wife Lisa. lisa@filmatick.com. Tell her I sent you!

Great video intro to virtual production.  LED stages are being built all over very quickly.  The cost of rental should be coming down, a production will no longer need to build their own. 

Other than explosions, there are other issues, like particles, smoke or fog.  They are very difficult to match in the real foreground and on the LED wall.   Also, The Mandalorian used an outdoor set for direct sunlight shots (using that fantastic light, the sun) as direct sunlight is not possible to replicate on a virtual set, yet.

But by allowing the final pixel to be shot with the director, DP and Production Designer there on set, and having an iterative creative process, instead of linear, it's more like pre-VFX days of making movies.  No longer having a VFX person making lighting decisions months after shooting, as the DP and director have moved on to other projects.  

The whole process requires everyone to be involved from the beginning of pre-production, with real and 3D versions of sets and props created by the virtual art department. 

Hello, I am re-entering the film production world after a rather circuitous route. Film school at UM, motor home driver, art dept assistant, documentary 70MM film loader, then set up a film production company in HCMC, Vietnam, mostly working on TVCs. I then entered the video game industry, starting a dev studio in Vietnam. Since then have been doing business development for tech in games, some motion capture, now helping bring virtual production LED walls and stages to a few places in Asia and elsewhere, which, if done correctly, and from the very beginning of pre production, can keep costs down.

Plus, assets used from pitch viz, pre viz, tech viz, etc, can be reused and part of the final pixel. And the methods allow the key creatives to be part of the final pixel, instead of lighting decisions being made by VFX artists months later.

I have recently started working on a development company focusing on Cli-fi (Climate fiction), utilizing the latest virtual production techniques. The goal is to combat the hundreds of millions of dollars the fossil fuel industry spends on propaganda and misinformation. Subtly though, the stories don't have to actually be about climate change, but more of a period piece, in the future, where the characters live in the devastation wrought by our inaction.

We have our first (and maybe second) IP, a novel to be scripted by the author.

We are still in the fundraising stage, but I believe we will get this thing off the ground.

I am excited to be part of the Stage32 endeavor, and to be participating in the project packaging lab.

I also have access to excellent artists with deep knowledge of Unreal, if anyone wants to create a pitch viz for their work. Just reach out.

Thanks!

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