Issue #17 of the mag is here! Go on set with VFX supervisors, learn about LiDAR scanning and camera arrays

May 7, 2024

The latest issue of the print magazine looks at on set visual effects on projects like The Creator, Fargo, Spaceman, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and Napoleon.

Issue #17 of befores & afters magazine is out! It looks at on set visual effects with several on set VFX supervisors and with companies doing LiDAR scanning and camera array shooting.

Go deep on the on set challenges of making ‘The Creator’.

Here’s a look at what’s inside the 80 pages of this issue:

  • Start with our cover feature on Gareth Edwards’ The Creator and Industrial Light & Magic on set visual effects supervisor Andrew Roberts and the challenges of that making that production as lean on set as possible.
  • Then we chat to Fargo installment five visual effects supervisor Jesse Kawzenuk about the creation of fire, a car crash and fog for the season.
  • Spaceman production visual effects supervisor Matt Sloan details the various on set techniques used to have Adam Sandler interact with an alien spider.
  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes visual effects supervisor Adrian de Wet reveals all on his collaboration with on set visual effects supervisor Sean Stranks.
  • Duncan Lees, director of LiDAR at Visualskies, takes us through the process of LiDAR scanning, including on Napoleon.
  • PlatePros founder and CEO David C. Smith discusses array and process plates and how they are filmed.
  • Pixomondo virtual production and capture supervisor James Thompson breaks down his role on the set of LED volumes.
Making Adam Sandler interact with an alien spider on ‘Spaceman’.

You can grab issue #17 at Amazon. Find your copy in your local store. Here’s a link to the main Amazon marketplaces:

USA — UK — Canada — Germany — France — Spain

Italy — Australia — Japan — Sweden — Poland — Netherlands

A big thanks to Reallusion for sponsoring this issue!

Filming array plates with PlatePros.

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