befores & afters

A team of just three VFX artists helped make the million dollar-winning commercial in the Doritos ‘Crash the Super Bowl’ contest

Here’s how they did it (including a whole bunch of VFX breakdown videos).

‘The number of times we talked about a blood and guts cannon in prep meetings was…fantastic’

The VFX supervisor for ‘The Monkey’ breaks down the film’s craziest and quirkiest death scenes. Plus, exclusive visual effects breakdown videos of all the

VFX Breakdowns

A quick behind the scenes of ‘M3GAN 2.0’

Some on-set puppetry. Hats off to the VFX clean-up team!

Articles

Planes, dams and invisible visual effects

How key scenes in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme were made, including with miniatures!

VFX Breakdowns

Ingenious ways the deaths were filmed for ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’

See the practical effects, bluescreen shoots and other ways that the deaths were captured.

VFX Breakdowns

ILM breaks down the VFX in ‘Andor’, season 2

The VFX studio has released a new reel of its visual effects for the season.

Magazine·Main Mag

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!

VFX Breakdowns

Full ep of Marvel Studios’ ‘Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ is released

Ahead of Disney+ series Ironheart release, the full making of for Wakanda Forever is now on YouTube.

Articles

What you didn’t know about Nuke’s 3D system and how it was developed

Get a rare insight into the making of Nuke at Digital Domain, including a Nuke script for a classic Titanic VFX shot.

Podcasts

The surprising use of visual effects in season 6 of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

The invisible effects work in the show you may not have noticed.

Magazine

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 from issue