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Category: Magazine

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Strange designs

Posted onFebruary 7, 2023

Wētā FX unleashes zombies, and strange environs, for Multiverse of Madness.

Magazine

The unique challenge of making a stalking, unfolding, alien entity that hides amongst the clouds

Posted onFebruary 2, 2023

MPC’s key role in designing Nope’s ‘Jean Jacket’: an excerpt from issue #8 of befores & afters magazine.

Magazine

The latest issue of befores & afters magazine goes deep on VFX art departments

Posted onJanuary 23, 2023January 31, 2023

The designs in Nope, The Witcher and more–from the point of view of the VFX studios.

Articles, Magazine

‘Titanic’s’ digital paraphernalia supervisor made all the difference

Posted onDecember 19, 2022

Titanic turns 25, and we are celebrating here at befores & afters.

Magazine

Behind the mind-bending effects in Tool’s ‘Opiate²’ music video

Posted onNovember 28, 2022November 29, 2022

Silicone puppets, live-action photography and meticulous digital effects made it possible.

Magazine

‘All this is not to do with animatronics. It’s to do with characters’

Posted onNovember 9, 2022

How one animatronics designer and puppeteer has made his way into the world of Star Wars, Dark Crystal and more.

Magazine

What it was like to work on Phil Tippett’s ‘MAD GOD’

Posted onNovember 2, 2022

An animator’s perspective (and a special bonus excerpt from befores & afters magazine).

Magazine

Inside issue #7 of b&a mag: animatronics, creature effects and Phil Tippett’s ‘MAD GOD’

Posted onOctober 28, 2022November 19, 2022

The latest issue of befores & afters magazine has arrived!

Magazine

Breaking down a low-budget stop-motion scene

Posted onOctober 4, 2022

Animator Angus Lamont reveals how he crafted a giant monster attack in his makeshift garage/studio.

Magazine

‘Where’s the head? When’s the head going to turn up?’

Posted onSeptember 25, 2022September 25, 2022

‘The Bubble’ had some slightly unusual visual effects requirements to help deliver its tongue-in-cheek tale.

Magazine

The art and design and VFX of a music video

Posted onSeptember 19, 2022September 19, 2022

A breakdown of Father John Misty’s single ‘Funny Girl’.

Magazine

147 3D printed pieces helped make this BBC Winter Olympics spot possible

Posted onSeptember 12, 2022

How Blinkink had to solve some interesting previs, stop-motion and 3D printing challenges for the promo. ‘Extreme by Nature’, a spot for the BBC Winter …

Magazine

Issue #6: stop-motion, music videos, Predator, DragonHeart, The Bubble!

Posted onSeptember 5, 2022September 20, 2022

120 pages of visual effects in print.

Magazine

The invisible effects of ‘The Power of the Dog’

Posted onAugust 24, 2022

The dog in the hills is…amazing.

Magazine

The digital environments in ‘The Secrets of Dumbledore’ you probably didn’t realize were digital

Posted onAugust 20, 2022August 20, 2022

How One of Us crafted the opening brasserie and Hogwarts Great Hall environments.

Magazine

The invisible effects of ‘Winning Time’

Posted onAugust 8, 2022September 2, 2022

An excerpt from issue #5 of befores & afters magazine.

Magazine

The invisible VFX of ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

Posted onAugust 3, 2022August 8, 2022

An excerpt from the ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ article in issue #5 of befores & afters mag.

Magazine

Issue #5 of befores & afters magazine is FULL of invisible effects coverage

Posted onAugust 1, 2022August 13, 2022

From ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ to ‘Our Flag Means Death’.

Articles, Magazine

A cape for Christopher Lee

Posted onMay 16, 2022May 19, 2022

Behind ILM’s cloth sims for Count Dooku in ‘Attack of the Clones’.

Magazine

A history of CG bird flocking

Posted onApril 7, 2022April 7, 2022

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