Making vampire chimps for ‘Let the Right One In’
Behind the scenes with Ingenuity Studios.
The history of markerless motion capture company Move.ai
How Move.ai started, and what its latest mobile app lets you do with markerless mocap.
Watch ReDefine’s ‘We Have a Ghost’ VFX breakdown
Bringing Ernest the ghost to, um, life.
Here’s why the fluid sims on ‘The Perfect Storm’ were so hard to do
VFX Notes has a special guest -- Habib Zargarpour - who discusses his role at ILM on the oceans for 'The Perfect
‘They talked to the puppet like an actor’
Spectral Motion breaks down their practical characters for ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
The befores & afters Patreon has evolved: get involved
See what the latest tiers are, including the new RETRO tier, to help support befores & afters.
See Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler (and their stunties) take on bluescreen filming for ‘Murder Mystery 2’
This behind the scenes featurette showcases the Eiffel Tower stunt work on the film (plus, bonus slide show of on-set imagery!)
‘You should put a camera on the robot’
Go behind the scenes with SISU Cinema Robotics and the precision imagery their ‘cinebots’ can pull off.
VFX supe and director Adam Valdez on the new tech in his UE5 short ‘Brave Creatures’
The short utilized the new Path Tracer feature in Unreal Engine.
Behind the insane engineering for the wave tank in ‘The Way of Water’
Here's how the performance capture tank was built.
How Industrial Light & Magic managed to deliver 48 one-off VFX shots for ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ in the last few months of production
A number of the opening space scenes, arrival on Pandora sequences, and views of Bridgehead were ILM visual effects shots.
Issue #10 of befores & afters magazine goes deep on practical effects
Coverage of the latest in creature and make-up effects, miniatures and in-camera effects.
The THEN & NOW sessions are on again at FMX 2023!
Stop-motion puppet fabrication, Dragonheart's animation and a look back at Gravity.
Creating Hollywood-inspired Action Sequences for ActorCore
Industry Veteran’s Professional 3D Motion Content for Action Films and Games.
New ‘acting underwater’ featurette is out for ‘Way of Water’
With not-seen-before footage from the tank performance capture shoot.
Gimbal shooting for ‘Plane’
I love gimbals.
VFX supe Russell Dodgson explores three seasons of ‘His Dark Materials’ magic
From on-set puppetry, to CG work, to second unit directing.
See how this WW2 Lancaster action scene was made with models, mo-co and digital VFX
It's the latest video from InCamera!
Watch this video breakdown of the VFX of ‘Pinocchio’
Hey You Guys features this MPC reel from the film.
These students made an insane replica miniature CIA vault from ‘Mission: Impossible’
Yep, the one Tom Cruise breaks into, and befores & afters got a special visual insight into how it was built.
‘These were the amazing tools that we had at our disposal and got to use’
What the VFX supe on ‘Quantumania’ liked so much about having StageCraft and a range of other tools on the film. befores
Generating 3D models and meshes from text prompts? We asked Shutterstock about its team-up with NVIDIA
Customized Shutterstock content will be trained with NVIDIA Picasso generative AI cloud service.
‘We got them running full tilt and acting all crazy, but then we also sped it up 8%’
How practical and digital combined to make that crazy episode 5 ‘Last of Us’ clicker battle.
Celebrate the release of the new 4K UHD ‘Dragonslayer’ SteelBook release with this Phil Tippett gallery
Re-visiting the go-motion work by Phil Tippett at ILM.
How to plan for huge VFX sequences: the VFX supe and VFX producer on ‘Slumberland’
How do you get two characters to ride a giant flying goose, anyway?
DNEG made a procedural tool that let artists create bomb-shaped holes in Boston buildings for ‘The Last of Us’
Behind the scenes of the VFX studio’s environment and character integration work in the series.
Watch Windmall Lane’s VFX breakdown for ‘Wendell & Wild’
The studio showcases their VFX work for the stop-motion film.
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
From classroom to credits, with Campus VFX