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Special effects do nothing for me in movies. Movies that take the [Dogme 95](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95) appr

• karaterobot 4y ago
  That was a reaction to the direction of movies which eventually evolved into this, but sort of an overreaction in my opinion. Rules like "the camera must be handheld" and "the director must not be credited" seem unnecessary. It felt like that manifesto was meant to make an ideological point rather than to help make better movies. In practice, even most of its adherents broke those rules, because they were bad rules. That said, while reading this article I did think about Dogme 95, and started wondering what a similar manifesto specifically related to the use of VFX would look like, if it were maybe a little bit less reactionary, and more tailored to "how do we make VFX an integrated, manageable, sustainable part of movies?". Has anybody done this already?
  • Joeboy 4y ago
    If you google "vfx workflow" or "vfx pipeline" you'll find lots of stuff. As I understand it the reason things get out of control on big movies is that there's no incentive to plan shots properly or be decisive, because VFX houses are expected to sign stupid contracts. There are smaller movies where people are more disciplined, eg. Monsters, where I believe director Gareth Edwards did all the VFX himself.