Cleanup & Removal Pass
Flat$2,200
The invisible pass — everything that shouldn't be in frame, gone.
- Up to 5 shots at simple complexity
- Object, rig & wire removal, sky replacement
- Beauty pass & screen replacement
- 2 revision rounds
Reel by Q Star, our VFX Specialist — credits with Netflix, Wiz Khalifa, Joyner Lucas, Kodak Black & Soulja Boy.
Two ways to get the shot. VFX is our hand-built post department — compositing, cleanup, set extension, simulation, and finishing. AI VFX is the generative pipeline: the same department, working faster on the shots where a machine genuinely helps, priced accordingly. Both bolt onto any production we shoot — or onto footage you already have.
Reel representative of portfolio work done by our designated VFX Specialist — not produced by The Refinery Entertainment. All rights are preserved by the original directors, creators, and production companies. This is solely for portfolio display.
Most VFX work is invisible — a rig removed, a sky replaced, a skyline extended past the wall we actually built. The rest is the shot that couldn't be filmed. We do both, in house, on the same timeline as the edit.
VFX is quoted per shot because that's the only honest unit — a two-second wire removal and a two-second creature build are not the same work. Bands below are our standing rates; the exact number lands after we watch your footage.
Shot counts and complexity are confirmed on a footage review before anything is billed — if a shot we quoted as simple turns out to be complex, you hear it from us before we start, not on the invoice. Titles and motion-graphics sequences are quoted by the sequence.
Bundled shot counts at a flat price — the simplest way to add VFX to a production without a shot-by-shot bid. Every pass below is also selectable inside Build Your Quote on any package we offer.
The invisible pass — everything that shouldn't be in frame, gone.
Composited, extended, integrated — the pass that changes what the shot is.
Simulation, scale, and full builds — the shots that don't exist without us.
Generative tooling has genuinely collapsed the cost of a specific set of jobs — roto, cleanup, removal, crowd, localization. On those, we pass the saving to you. On hero creative work it hasn't, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Where the tooling genuinely does the work, our AI VFX rate sits about 35% below the equivalent traditional band on the VFX tab. Localization and restoration are priced per finished minute, because that's the unit the work actually scales on.
Every AI pass is reviewed and finished by a compositor before delivery, and is covered by the same 2 revision rounds as hand-built VFX.
All three are selectable inside Build Your Quote on any package — music video, commercial, fashion, resort, aviation, social, or real estate.
The everyday pass — cleaner plates, sharper footage, nothing distracting left in frame.
Build past what you could afford to build — set extension and generated coverage.
One film, another language, the same voice — the cheapest audience you'll ever buy.
Full CG characters, digital doubles at feature quality, and large-scale destruction still take skilled artists and real hours. The generative saving lands on cleanup, roto, removal, crowd and localization — not there. Hero shots are quoted at the traditional rate on the VFX tab.
No model fixes a soft, badly-lit, or wrongly-framed plate. If we didn't shoot it and the source won't hold up, we'll say so before you pay for a pass that can't rescue it.
Face replacement, voice cloning, and digital doubles only happen with written consent from the person involved. We don't recreate a real person — living or dead — without it, at any price.
Broadcasters, platforms and brands increasingly require AI-assisted work to be disclosed. We hand you the documentation to do that cleanly, and we build to the same delivery spec either way.
Open Build Your Quote on any production — music video, social content, fashion film, commercial, resort, aviation, or real estate — and you'll find a VFX & AI VFX section with every pass above, priced into your total live.
Best case — we plan the effects work at treatment stage, shoot the plates correctly, and the post pass is cheaper and better because of it. Add a pass inside any package builder.
Video & Film packages →We take finished or half-finished projects from other crews. Send us the cut and the source media and we'll come back with a shot-by-shot bid against the rate card.
Send us the footage →Simple passes typically deliver inside a week of locked picture; complex builds and simulation are scheduled against the cut. Rush is available at +25% of the VFX fee, same as every other post service.
Post & rights add-ons →Finished shots conformed into your cut, delivery masters in 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 where relevant, and 2 revision rounds on every pass. Raw project files are available on request.
Usage rights →All VFX pricing is an estimate until we review your footage — shot complexity is confirmed on a review call before anything is billed, and the Executive Producer approves or adjusts the final number on your estimate.
Send the cut, the plate, or just the idea. We'll come back with a shot-by-shot bid inside 24 hours.