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.
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
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'.
Learn on set VFX stories this World VFX Day
All the World VFX Day sessions are happening over 15 hours on 8th December!
Season 2 of ‘Gen V’ features one character who can store people in his anus
How *that* Black Hole scene was done, plus other visual effects in the show.
IAMAG Master Classes will feature ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ production designer Dylan Cole
Dylan Cole returns to IAMAG for Master Classes ’26 in Montreal.
What it’s like to run a visual effects studio in China
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Base FX founder and CEO Chris Bremble about operating a VFX studio for 20
The art of re-skinning
The stand-in proxy F3 cars, the picture cars, the tracking and matchmoving, and more. An excerpt from issue #43 of befores &
Go behind the scenes of ‘Stranger Things’, season 5
Netflix has released a bunch of behind the scenes featurettes.
In-depth on the visual effects of ‘F1’
Get all the info, and a whole lot of behind the scenes imagery, in the latest magazine in PRINT or DIGITAL.
VFX Notes reviews ‘Ex Machina’ and its AI Alicia Vikander
The Rise of AI Robots season continues.
The painterly art and tech behind stop-motion animated ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’
Including the fascinating ways that the puppets were tracked for mouth replacement, and how the pearls were animated.
On The Set Pic: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’
Director James Cameron and Oona Chaplin on the set of Avatar: Fire and Ash.
How the original ‘The Running Man’ predicted the rise of the deep fake
The Arnold Schwarzenegger film foresaw both the use of digital VFX and machine learning. An excerpt from issue 3 of befores &
Watch Digital Domain’s Skeleton Man breakdown for ‘Welcome to Derry’
Go behind the VFX.
How the bus scenes in ‘The Lost Bus’ were filmed
Stunt buses, a bluescreen stage and more. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine. The latest issue of the magazine covers the
This preview for the new S. S. Rajamouli film ‘Varanasi’ already has millions and millions of views. Here’s how it was made
Visual effects supervisor Srinivas Mohan breaks it down.
Infinite Realities on the path to 4D gaussian splatting in digital human capture
Including for the holograms in 'Superman'.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
How the right school helped this compositor land his latest credit on 'Invasion' season 3.
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