Retro It’s Bamfing time! ·May 2, 2023 Has there ever quite been anything as cool as the original Bamfing effect in ‘X2’? UPDATED!
Podcasts Bringing ‘Matilda’ to life with more VFX than you might at first realize ·April 29, 2023 How Cinesite and other studios crafted the visual effects of Matilda.
Articles From green guys to smokey simulations ·April 29, 2023 How that stunning nichevo’ya battle in Shadow and Bone was made.
VFX Breakdowns Watch this ‘Fast X’ stunt behind the scenes ·April 27, 2023 This b-roll video is now online.
Articles Here’s how that crazy tsunami scene in Knock at the Cabin was made ·April 26, 2023 FuseFX breaks down the water sims and comp work involved.
Podcasts Treating ships like characters in the final episode of ‘Star Trek: Picard’ ·April 24, 2023 The VFX of the Borg cube and Enterprise-D.
Magazine The best of both worlds ·April 23, 2023 Marrying practical miniatures with CG served perfectly on RRR’s dramatic bridge scene.
Articles ‘1899’: Framestore’s virtual production take-aways ·April 21, 2023 Key lessons the visual effects studio learnt on the impressive virtual production series.
Articles How the dragonborn in ‘D&D’ came to life with a new facial animatronics motion capture system ·April 19, 2023 The animatronics and make-up effects behind ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.’
VFX Insight How to get amazing fire effects elements for your project ·April 17, 2023 The Light Shop is offering a special deal from their new VFX elements library, read on for the befores & afters discount, too.
Podcasts Urban Bradeško, aka the Explosions Guy, talks sparse GPU accelerated volumetric fluid solver Axiom ·April 17, 2023 The latest episode of the befores & afters podcast is here!
Magazine Yep, pool noodles were part of this ‘Wakanda Forever’ suit from Legacy Effects ·April 16, 2023 An excerpt from the practical effects issue of befores & afters magazine.
ArticlesVFX Breakdowns Explore the VFX work in s2 of ‘Carnival Row’ with Digital Domain and Goodbye Kansas ·April 15, 2023 Both studios have published some fantastic VFX breakdowns of their work.
VFX Breakdowns Go behind the scenes of the ‘The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special’ VFX with Framestore ·April 15, 2023 The VFX studio has released its breakdown.
Articles Inside the mind of Phil Tippett in the final stages of ‘MAD GOD’ ·April 14, 2023 Collaborator Webster Colcord captured MAD GOD documentary images on 16mm film, combined with digital and optical sound.
VFX Insight The challenge of wrinkles for real-time ·April 13, 2023 How Reallusion implemented its Dynamic Wrinkles system into the latest version of Character Creator.
Podcasts A preview of FMX with Mario Müller ·April 12, 2023 The VFX and animation conference is happening April 25-28.
VFX Breakdowns Watch DNEG’s ‘The Rings of Power’ VFX breakdown ·April 12, 2023 Incredible invisible digital double work.
Articles The CAFÉ conference will feature a preview ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ two weeks before the film opens ·April 11, 2023 It's just one of the sessions at the Montreal VFX and animation event in May.
Podcasts Making vampire chimps for ‘Let the Right One In’ ·April 11, 2023 Behind the scenes with Ingenuity Studios.
Podcasts The history of markerless motion capture company Move.ai ·April 10, 2023 How Move.ai started, and what its latest mobile app lets you do with markerless mocap.
VFX Breakdowns Watch ReDefine’s ‘We Have a Ghost’ VFX breakdown ·April 7, 2023 Bringing Ernest the ghost to, um, life.
Podcasts Here’s why the fluid sims on ‘The Perfect Storm’ were so hard to do ·April 6, 2023 VFX Notes has a special guest -- Habib Zargarpour - who discusses his role at ILM on the oceans for 'The Perfect Storm'.
Magazine ‘They talked to the puppet like an actor’ ·April 6, 2023 Spectral Motion breaks down their practical characters for ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
Articles The befores & afters Patreon has evolved: get involved ·April 6, 2023 See what the latest tiers are, including the new RETRO tier, to help support befores & afters.
VFX Breakdowns See Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler (and their stunties) take on bluescreen filming for ‘Murder Mystery 2’ ·April 5, 2023 This behind the scenes featurette showcases the Eiffel Tower stunt work on the film (plus, bonus slide show of on-set imagery!)
Articles ‘You should put a camera on the robot’ ·April 4, 2023 Go behind the scenes with SISU Cinema Robotics and the precision imagery their ‘cinebots’ can pull off.