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Budgeting estimation tools that create competitive VFX bids
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A comprehensive and flexible bidding setup, combined with real-time cost tracking, provides powerful reporting on a single platform.
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Manage your budgets, monitor progress by shot, asset, work type, and sequence, and share the data you need with customizable tools for artists, producers, and vendors.
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Keep your budget estimates accurate and accessible from set to delivery.
Customize your bidding, your way
Make bids that match the way that you or your studio works with six flexible bidding models: crew, crew type, shot type, toolset, methodology, and quick quote. You define each item.
Each bid model is customizable so you can generate bids that fit the needs of your studio and your clients and re-use them easily. Create bidding models to match your specifications.
Powerful calculators to generate precise VFX bids
Calculation tools are designed specifically for VFX bidding and budgeting.
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The Unit Cost Calculator lets the user build complex price lists from unit cost data details, so you can see your costs and discount thresholds.
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The Discount Control feature allows you to finesse your budget, charting out margins to decide mark-ups or discounts.
When tax season rolls around, you'll be happy that you used our Tax Credit Calculator during your bidding and budgeting process as it will show you your labour percentage costs and how much you can recover as tax credits.
If you are working with clients in other countries, your bids will have Multiple Currency Support in locked exchange rates allowing you to enter and display your costs in any currency.
Track estimated costs and budget adjustments for your VFX project with accuracy
Our VFX budgeting tools allow you to set custom price lists that accommodate different pay rates across different projects. Adjust salaries mid-project and will calculate it into the budget for you.
The Estimated Final Cost feature provides the final cost of each shot in real-time. The more data it receives, the more accurate of a budget guide it becomes.
Monitor the percentage of labour costs, per shot, and for each project. A handy tool when you're recovering tax credit calculations.
Features Bulletproof offers to improve your VFX bidding process, include:
BIDDING MODELS
Generate estimates that showcase bids covering the worst- to best case scenarios.
AUTOMATIC CHANGE ORDERS
Compares any two budgets and identifies the differences. Exporting them into a simple report.
PRICE LISTS
Compares any two budgets and identifies the differences. Exporting them into a simple report.
QUICK QUOTE
A powerful tool for creating detailed bid templates for recurring shot types. Create quick and accurate bids.
DISCOUNT CONTROL
Carefully finesse mark-ups or discounts in the pricing for each project.
ESTIMATED FINAL COST
Calculate production costs that include everything from artists' rates to tool rental fees.
MULTIPLE CURENCY SUPPORT
Converts production costs into your chosen currency.
TAX CREDIT
CALCULATOR
The authorized tax credit calculation tool.
BUDGET BUFFER
Compares current and past budget to create change orders.
Over 180 different types of reporting styles
With Bulletproof you have access to 180 different ways of budget reporting including: shot lists, status summaries, cost estimates, internal cost versus expense and more.
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What People are Saying
VFX Team User feedback for Bulletproof Studio Tools
I've never worked in a database in our industry with the depth of financial reporting tools - the big picture integration for the producers….
Gillian, VFX Producer
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