ILM’s VFX breakdown for ‘TRON: Ares’ is here
This new video includes great break-aparts of key scenes.
How Framestore helped make the creatures and cinematography of ‘Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age’ feel so real
Plus, the incredible on-set puppetry utilized in the show.
Framestore breaks down its VFX for ‘Superman’
Watch the new featurette, and don't forget to grab the mag on the film's VFX from befores & afters.
Watch this side-by-side from ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’
From performance capture to final VFX.
‘I, Robot’: a cautionary AI robot tale with incredible CGI
A new VFX Notes episode is out!
Reflection and illusion
How that oner full of mirror shots was achieved for Glinda’s ‘The Girl in the Bubble’ song in ‘Wicked: For Good’. An
A huge deep dive on the VFX of ‘Wicked: For Good’
All the big sequences broken down in the magazine.
Tons of behind the scenes imagery in this ‘Stranger Things’ finale featurette
The cast and crew discuss the final battle, with a huge amount of on-set footage shown.
Behind the scenes of ‘The Great Flood’
Watch this bts featurette.
New behind the scenes featurettes for the new ‘Stranger Things’ eps
Spoilers! But these new featurettes include some fun info.
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.
So, which films made the VFX Oscar Bake-Off list?
Find out here.
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.
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'.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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