On The Set Pic: ‘Day Shift’
Motion base!
How DNEG Animation gave ‘Entergalactic’ its stylized look
Go behind the scenes with key members of the team.
Does A.I. kill art, the tech behind ‘Love and Thunder’, and getting a job in VFX
Here's what befores & afters is up to this year at the VIEW Conference.
You can now watch this ‘Love, death, and Tim Miller’ AWS session from SIGGRAPH
Hosted by Ian Failes from befores & afters, and also featuring Gretchen Libby.
Breaking down a low-budget stop-motion scene
Animator Angus Lamont reveals how he crafted a giant monster attack in his makeshift garage/studio.
Watch Makuta’s ‘RRR’ crowd sim breakdown
The behind the scenes keep coming.
Solving a 3D boat scan was a big part of Industrial Pixel’s beginnings
Scanning on a boat on water is harder than you might think.
Behind the scenes of Wētā Workshop’s ‘Jeff’
The animatronics powering the Wētā Workshop Unleashed security guard, Jeff.
That time Tom Holland got hit by a bluescreen car
4 hours of stuffies discussion (just kidding).
‘Where’s the head? When’s the head going to turn up?’
‘The Bubble’ had some slightly unusual visual effects requirements to help deliver its tongue-in-cheek tale.
Go behind the scenes of Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’
These timelapse stop-motion animation behind the scenes videos are always intoxicating.
Watch MPC’s VFX breakdown for ‘Secret Headquarters’
Befores and afters from the film.
The special effects behind that dramatic stadium save in ‘The Batman’
Some insider info from SFX technician Richard Cheal was revealed on the Team Deakins podcast.
Gregory, Goldie, Gault and…Matthew
A deep dive into the VFX of four fun characters featured in ‘The Sandman’.
The art and design and VFX of a music video
A breakdown of Father John Misty's single ‘Funny Girl’.
Watch this official ‘Avatar’ performance capture featurette
The film is getting a re-release this week.
You can now re-visit one of the greatest ever SIGGRAPH presentations in history
ACM has made 50 years of their publications open and freely available, including this killer animation-related session.
b&a podcast: Rose Duignan and Hal Hickel on the history of ILM
The early days of ILM, the practical-to-digital transition, and the latest innovations at the studio.
Behind the scenes of ‘Carter’
Including THAT helicopter scene.
147 3D printed pieces helped make this BBC Winter Olympics spot possible
How Blinkink had to solve some interesting previs, stop-motion and 3D printing challenges for the promo. ‘Extreme by Nature’, a spot for
When you come to the VIEW Conference, it’s more than just amazing speakers
The program is out, and so are details about recruitment, exhibitors and special sessions.
Exclusive: watch Proof’s previs reel for ‘The Sandman’
And find out how the occultist summoning Dream sequence was visualized.
The AI tool used to redub F-bombs and go from an R rating to PG-13
How lines of dialogue were changed in the film, 'Fall'.
‘I wanted to pull back from that sort of perfection and leave more mistakes in’
Henry Selick on the art of stop-motion and the making of his ‘Wendell & Wild’.
Total speculation: the 10 films from 2022 that could make the VFX bake-off
What do you think? Is this list close, right on, or completely way-off?
Issue #6: stop-motion, music videos, Predator, DragonHeart, The Bubble!
120 pages of visual effects in print.
How Mackevision pulled off those fiery Vecna scenes
Killer VFX in Stranger Things 4.
Get my new book in PRINT or on KINDLE.
Issue #67: The visual effects of Masters of the Universe.
Latest limited edition t-shirt: Pseudopod.
