Capturing what is to be The Thing
From on-set motion capture to final performance. An excerpt from issue #47 of befores & afters magazine.
Thia’s legs (are missing)
The practicalities of limb removal. An excerpt from issue #46 of befores & afters magazine.
‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’: Integrating 3D Facial Effects into Stop-Motion Puppetry
How 3D-generated mouths were integrated directly onto stop-motion puppets.
So, which films made the VFX Oscar Bake-Off list?
Find out here.
The Making of 3D Gorilla Animations: Capturing the Beast in Motion
Over 130 lifelike gorilla movements, professionally performed and motion-captured.
Crafting a cast of superheroes and villains for ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’
Issue #47 of the magazine is out in print and digital.
Mandibles, missing legs and a whole lot of creatures
Behind the scenes of 'Predator: Badlands' in issue #46.
The 157-page befores & afters deep dive magazine on the VFX of ‘Sinners’ is now available for free
Read the entire digital magazine here, full of behind the scenes info and imagery.
From classroom to credits
How the right school helped this FX artist land a credit on ‘Sinners’.
A poetic look behind the scenes of performance capture by Stephen Lang
This official 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' featurette sees the actor discuss performance capture, with a fun look behind the scenes of the Lightstorm volume.
The art of twinning
How to put two Michael B. Jordans on screen. An excerpt from issue #45 of befores & afters magazine on Sinners.
Phil Tippett on his latest personal projects, and his view on AI (it’s not what you might think)
What might the follow-up to MAD GOD be?
Disney Animation’s website has a behind the scenes feature that is too good to miss
Their 'What We Do' section contains some incredible making of material on recent films, and it now includes 'Zootopia 2'.
157 pages of VFX and filmmaking behind the scenes on ‘Sinners’
Issue #45 of befores & afters is here and it covers twinning, vampires and more!
Light cycles, in the real world
Behind the chase scenes, light walls and that splitting police car in 'TRON: Ares'. An extract from issue #44 of the magazine.
This video of ‘balls and charts’ for ‘Murderbot’ direct from Apple is very cool
A great recognition of the on-set VFX and VFX teams in general.
New VFX breakdown video for ‘Wicked For Good’
The official featurette breaks down wire work, animals and that great mirror sequence.
A stack of ‘Frankenstein’ behind the scenes, including this 5-minute VFX breakdown
Plus, there's a full dedicated issue of the print magazine coming soon!
This puppetry behind the scenes for ‘Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age’ is just so fun to watch
A new feeaturette about the on-set puppetry has been released by Apple.
The ‘TRON: Ares’ issue is here!
Issue #44 of befores & afters covers the visual effects of 'TRON: Ares'.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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Predator: Badlands
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Sinners
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