Visual effects supervisor

The VFX supervisor is the creative project manager at a game or commercial productions, which is responsible for creating the visual effects. This requires knowledge from the fields of film and video art, computer graphics, visual imagery, production scheduling (pipelines ) and project management, team management and in dealing with customers, as well as a problem-and conflict resolution -oriented and creative thinking. The abbreviation " VFX " is an onomatopoeic letter combination that spoke the complete text " Visual Effects" already largely reflects what is used in the Anglo - American language frequently.

The client for the VFX supervisor are usually film production companies or service for VFX. Here, the VFX supervisor in charge of the production along with the VFX Producer during preproduction on the rotation to finishing in post. His duties in this case the creation of VFX design ( idea and design of the effects), the pre-visualization ( Previz ), the planning and implementation of the tricks, seeking out the VFX company and employee support during the shooting, coordination and acceptance are all tasks to guarantee the desired visual quality. The VFX Supervisor works closely with the director, the producer, the production designer and cinematographer.

Abroad, especially in the USA, the close involvement of a VFX supervisor in production already during the creation of the script is almost a matter of course, to minimize friction losses during production, which may adversely affect the image quality, the budget or the schedule. In Germany, however, the importance of VFX is still largely underestimated in this area of ​​production and given the low budget is often saved Supervisor and VFX Producer at VFX. This has a very high cost in post-production and the forfeiting of visual credibility of the images in the finished film result.

• Film career