I'm pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for after drive to work.

Okay, so today I decided to discuss something I've never discussed before.

I'm going to talk about budgets.

So one of the things I want to talk about in today's thing is that when designing, there's a lot of elements about design

that have all to do with the creative aspects. Or, I mean, there's a lot of design is about sort of

making, you know, the best set in a vacuum. But the reality is, you know, we are a business.

And so one of the things that happens with the set is a set has a budget.

And so I want to talk through about how the budget impacts design.

The fact that design has to think about the budget.

Now, something I've never talked about, but one of the things I got from people is they seem

to really enjoy the nitty-gritty that deals with actually having to make a magic set.

And one of the things about actually having to make a magic set is you actually have a budget.

And so I thought I'd talk about it today.

So what I would talk about, so the way it works is there is a default, meaning everything

exists at a certain default, and then there's sort of bonus money put in so that you can

figure out what is this set to need to do that's different. So the idea that you want sets to do

things that don't normally do is built into the budget. But you only have so much budget.

So as I'll explain today, you have to pick and choose sometimes what you want to do.

So first of, let's talk about what the budget pertains to.

How does the budget care?

So first up is art.

And what that means is you have a budget for a specific number of pieces

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