A foam head performance
Behind the on-set puppetry in 'How to Train Your Dragon'. An excerpt from issue #39 of befores & afters magazine.
How those Florence Pugh parkour scenes were made in ‘Thunderbolts*’
An excerpt from issue #38 of befores & afters magazine.
Orchestrating a ‘Bullet Train Explosion’
An excerpt from issue #37 of befores & afters magazine, which is all about models and miniatures.
Kevin Bjorke came to Pixar for ‘Toy Story’ and first started modeling on his own Amiga
A special excerpt from befores & afters magazine's special issue on the 30th anniversary of Toy Story.
‘Toy Story’ is turning 30! Celebrate with a full issue of befores & afters magazine
Brand new interviews with crew members who were there at Pixar for the making of the film.
The mind-bending, camera-twisting start to season 2 of ‘Severance’
How a motion control robot camera, greenscreen plates, a treadmill and digital visual effects helped capture that frenetic season 2 opening oner.
Behind the scenes of s2 of ‘Severance’ in the latest magazine!
Innies and outies go digital and print in this new issue!
How Wētā FX crafted a horde of infected for season 2 of ‘The Last of Us’
An excerpt from issue #34 of befores & afters magazine.
Populating the world of ‘Andor’ with droids and creatures
An excerpt from issue #33 of befores & afters magazine.
Issue #34 is out and covers the practical and digital effects in ‘The Last of Us’ season 2
Issue #34 of befores & afters magazine is now out in PRINT and DIGITAL!
Go behind the scenes of season 2 of ‘Andor’ in a full issue of befores & afters magazine
Issue #33 of befores & afters magazine is now out in PRINT and DIGITAL!
The art of two Mickeys
Classic splitscreens, traditional face replacements and new approaches to machine learning-assisted face swapping allowed for twinning shots in ‘Mickey 17’. An excerpt
‘Twisters’: what went into a storm
Including, the fire-nado. An excerpt from issue #31 of befores & afters magazine.
Across The Rift
The dramatic school bus fight in 'In the Lost Lands'. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
‘We asked them to render out gameplay via nine different cameras’
How The Penguin's driving plates included footage from driving around in the video game, 'Gotham Knights'. An excerpt from issue #29 of
‘It was very visceral for the actor to see that light’
How a new kind of safe flash gun for interactive light, linked to the camera, was invented for 'The Penguin'. An excerpt
Brand new challenges for a familiar bear
How Framestore tackled fresh shooting methodologies for ‘Paddington in Peru’, while drawing on its rich history in character animation. An excerpt from
How to animate a rat being smashed…and do it backwards
The intricate stop-motion and puppeteering crafted by Tippett Studio for 'Alien: Romulus'. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine in print.
The river and 1.2 petabytes of disk space
How the emotional Raka scene from 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' was made. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
The making of Chistery and the monkey guards from ‘Wicked’
An excerpt from befores & afters print magazine.
How ILM made the audience-favorite character Dulicbear for ‘Wicked’
An excerpt from befores & afters print magazine.
Go deep into ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ in latest print mag
Full of before/after photos and tech info on Wētā FX's visual effects.
The making of ‘Defying Gravity’
Stunts, special effects and digital effects combined for this incredible 'Wicked' moment. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
A mix of old and new
The stop motion animation and VFX tech used on ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’. An excerpt from issue #25 of befores
‘If you want a painterly bush, paint the bush’
How the painterly style of ‘The Wild Robot’ was realized. An excerpt from issue #25 of befores & afters magazine.
‘I still have red dust on my motion base’
The practical and digital effects that made sandworm riding possible in 'Dune: Part Two'.
A new challenge: the Offspring
How Legacy Effects crafted the practical creature effects for the Offspring in 'Alien: Romulus'.
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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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