How to put Adam Sandler in space talking to a spider alien
From on-set to final visual effects in ‘Spaceman’. A new excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
Snakes, trains and paintovers
Here’s how production visual effects supervisor Adrian de Wet and on set visual effects supervisor Sean Stranks combined on The Hunger Games:
The art of shooting array plates
Photographic and virtual environment specialists PlatePros on what’s involved on set in filming car process plates and other camera array shoots. An
The on set VFX approach on ‘The Creator’ was different from most
The challenges of capturing gray and chrome balls, HDRIs, and reference imagery on the run-and-gun Gareth Edwards film. A new excerpt from
‘Jar Jar changed movies’
Actor and animator. Interviews by Ian Failes.
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.
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
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.
When your miniature ship is actually CG
How Surpreeze leveraged their digital asset for ‘Haunting of the Queen Mary’ in an unusual way.
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.
When your octopus, jellyfish and manta ray all need to do arabesques
A new excerpt from the VFX tools issue of befores & afters 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.
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.
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‘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.
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.
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
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
‘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.
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
Issue #13 of befores & afters magazine is out, and it goes deep on VFX CREATURES
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‘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’.
OTOY’s virtual journey into the world of Star Trek
How those Roddenberry Archive short films were brought to life.
‘Everything is live at the same time’
Framestore’s Tim Webber on the lessons learned from his live-action/virtual production hybrid short, ‘FLITE’.
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.
Developing beautiful in-camera VFX for ‘Don’t Worry Darling’
Watch these new clips from FX WRX, and see more in befores & afters magazine.
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Issue #69: The visual effects of The End of Oak Street.
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