How do you make Hollywood-style CG with a tiny

team and near-zero budget? Four filmmakers explain

how they successfully went about it

big

on a budget

emember when a

movie budget topping

$100 million was

big news? Today, no

one bats an eyelid to

those sort of numbers. It’s simply

assumed that, to have good-enough

CG to satisfy the multiplex masses,

you have to spend the GDP of a

small nation.

Or do you? Every now and

again, we’ll spot something online

R

that looks like a blockbuster,

but was actually made by small

team working on a shoestring.

Admittedly, we’re talking short

films, not three-hour epics, but

even so, the level of artistry on

display can be mind-boggling. You

often can’t help wondering: just

how on earth did they do that?

Over the next few pages, we

chat to the teams behind four such

projects to find out the answer.

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