Could ‘The Creator’ usher in a new approach to VFX?

February 28, 2024

That’s something we discuss on the VFX Notes podcast!

This week on the VFX Notes podcast, Hugo Guerra and Ian Failes discuss Gareth Edwards’ The Creator. It’s a VFX Oscar-nominated film that very deliberately set out to change the game in how these large visual effects films get made, backed up by the powerhouse Industrial Light & Magic and several VFX vendors. Find out more, including via a whopping amount of behind the scenes imagery and video.

This episode is sponsored by Backlight Creative.

Backlight Creative enhances the entire creative project lifecycle. For pre-production, there’s Celtx for script writing, beat boards, shot lists, and planning, and Backlight Gem, a narrative design platform for games and VR. For post-production, you’ve got ftrack Studio to manage creative projects with custom pipelines and reviews with cineSync and ftrack Review for high-res, real-time media collaboration. To manage your assets, connect your own storage to iconik, a scalable cloud-based media asset management platform. You can learn more at:

ftrack
Iconik
Gem
Celtx

Watch the new VFX Notes episode, below. Also, don’t miss befores & afters’ extensive coverage of the film here.

Leave a Reply

Don't Miss

Watch ILM’s VFX breakdown for ‘Stranger Things’ 5

Go behind the scenes.

Want to learn how ‘The Dinosaurs’ was made? Watch these featurettes

Rare glimpses inside ILM, and a look at the stuffies,

ILM’s Jeff White breaks down that incredible oner from ‘The Avengers’

A look back at the ILM Vancouver creative director's career.

Discover more from befores & afters

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading