Issue #17 of the mag is here! Go on set with VFX supervisors, learn about LiDAR scanning and camera arrays The latest issue of the print magazine looks at on set visual effects on projects like The Creator, Fargo, Spaceman, The Hunger May 7, 2024 Magazine
The dry-for-wet virtual production behind the stunning plane escape in ‘No Way Up’ How Dimension Studio used real-time tools and an LED wall for the sequence. A new excerpt from befores & afters print magazine. April 12, 2024 Magazine
Issue #16 of the magazine is now out and it’s a fun look at how flying scenes are made Featuring coverage of 'Masters of the Air', 'Lift', 'Society of the Snow', 'No Way Up' and 'Turbulence'. March 24, 2024 Magazine
A sense of (clever) scale The secrets behind the scale and miniature effects in ‘I’m A Virgo’. A new excerpt from issue #15 of befores & afters March 17, 2024 Magazine
How to build (and destroy) a missile site in miniature Behind this ‘Quantum Leap’ missile model build by Creation Consultants Inc. A new excerpt from issue #15 of befores & afters magazine. March 5, 2024 Magazine
When your miniature ship is actually CG How Surpreeze leveraged their digital asset for ‘Haunting of the Queen Mary’ in an unusual way. February 29, 2024 Magazine
The Runestone castle in ‘House of the Dragon’ was a tabletop miniature Here’s how Mattes & Miniatures made it: a special excerpt from the miniatures issue of befores & afters magazine. February 15, 2024 Magazine
Issue #15 of the magazine is out (and has some big changes) Jump into the world of models and miniature effects filmmaking in the latest issue of the magazine. February 2, 2024 Magazine
When your octopus, jellyfish and manta ray all need to do arabesques A new excerpt from the VFX tools issue of befores & afters magazine. January 23, 2024 Magazine
Giving ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ that crucial hand-made quality How Imageworks made the linework tool Kismet. A new excerpt from befores & afters magazine. January 10, 2024 Magazine
Behind the tool MPC built to allow for the transformations in ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’. A new excerpt from issue #14 of befores & afters magazine, which covers in-house VFX tools. December 31, 2023 Magazine
Collect them all! Here's how to get your hands on every issue of befores & afters magazine! December 29, 2023 Magazine
‘It’s almost like a painterly process to bring in these aberrations’ The Deep Defocus toolset at Wētā FX. An excerpt from issue #14 of befores & afters magazine. December 23, 2023 Magazine
Issue #14 of befores & afters mag is out and goes deep into in-house VFX tools From Spider-Verse to Transformers to the Little Mermaid: how bespoke tools brought these films to life. December 6, 2023 Magazine
Re-thinking the approach to creatures Cinesite adopted new workflows to bring more flexibility to its creature pipeline for the latest incarnation of ‘The Witcher’. A new excerpt November 30, 2023 Magazine
Building up Beki Framestore took the domesticated bishop’s claw in Foundation to a new level. Read this excerpt from issue #13 of befores & afters November 23, 2023 Magazine
‘It’s amazing how much adding an eye blink at just the right time can do’ Mixing practical and digital to create the hybrid creatures in ‘Sweet Tooth': an excerpt from befores & afters magazine. November 7, 2023 Magazine
Need to create a giant CG octopus? Why not start with the real thing How a trip to the fish markets helped Scanline VFX deliver this fearsome creature in ‘Meg 2: The Trench.’ Read a new November 2, 2023 Magazine
Issue #13 of befores & afters magazine is out, and it goes deep on VFX CREATURES Get the magazine in print and e-book form right now. October 27, 2023 Magazine
befores & afters magazine is now also an e-book! Still always in print, but now available as a Kindle e-book. September 25, 2023 Magazine
‘I get to think as a graphic designer, a compositional artist, cinematographer and director’ Why Neville Page turned to virtual production for his short, ‘Coalescence’. August 29, 2023 Magazine
OTOY’s virtual journey into the world of Star Trek How those Roddenberry Archive short films were brought to life. August 10, 2023 Magazine
‘Everything is live at the same time’ Framestore’s Tim Webber on the lessons learned from his live-action/virtual production hybrid short, ‘FLITE’. August 3, 2023 Magazine
Issue #12 of the print mag is out, and covers virtual production short films Go behind the scenes of Framestore's latest short, FLITE, plus other shorts made with real-time tools. July 22, 2023 Magazine
Developing beautiful in-camera VFX for ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Watch these new clips from FX WRX, and see more in befores & afters magazine. June 30, 2023 Magazine
Machine learning at the VFX studio level How Digital Domain has adopted deep learning and AI into its visual effects toolsets. June 22, 2023 Magazine