What it’s like to run a visual effects studio in China
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Base FX founder and CEO Chris Bremble about operating a VFX studio for 20 years from
The art of re-skinning
The stand-in proxy F3 cars, the picture cars, the tracking and matchmoving, and more. An excerpt from issue #43 of befores & afters magazine
Go behind the scenes of ‘Stranger Things’, season 5
Netflix has released a bunch of behind the scenes featurettes.
In-depth on the visual effects of ‘F1’
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VFX Notes reviews ‘Ex Machina’ and its AI Alicia Vikander
The Rise of AI Robots season continues.
The painterly art and tech behind stop-motion animated ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’
Including the fascinating ways that the puppets were tracked for mouth replacement, and how the pearls were animated.
On The Set Pic: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’
Director James Cameron and Oona Chaplin on the set of Avatar: Fire and Ash.
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How the original ‘The Running Man’ predicted the rise of the deep fake
The Arnold Schwarzenegger film foresaw both the use of digital VFX and machine learning. An excerpt from issue 3 of befores & afters magazine.
Watch Digital Domain’s Skeleton Man breakdown for ‘Welcome to Derry’
Go behind the VFX.
How the bus scenes in ‘The Lost Bus’ were filmed
Stunt buses, a bluescreen stage and more. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine. The latest issue of the magazine covers the VFX of
This preview for the new S. S. Rajamouli film ‘Varanasi’ already has millions and millions of views. Here’s how it was made
Visual effects supervisor Srinivas Mohan breaks it down.
Infinite Realities on the path to 4D gaussian splatting in digital human capture
Including for the holograms in 'Superman'.
How ‘The Bad Guys 2’ filmmakers approached stylization and combining 2D and 3D FX
The tools and techniques that gave the sequel its hand-crafted look. With EXCLUSIVE breakdown videos.
Stop-motion AI gnomes are here to get you
More Rise of AI robots at VFX Notes! Our Rise of AI Robots season at VFX Notes continues with a look at Aardman’s stop-motion
Go behind the scenes of rigging and practical effects at LAIKA
A new video from the LAIKA team.
Take a VFX ride on ‘The Lost Bus’
Issue #42 of befores & afters is now out!
The race to get a model jet ready for filming on Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
The jet scenes in the film were realized with a combination of a modified off-the-shelf model plane kit and digital visual effects.
The feel of flight
A range of techniques were combined to make Superman fly. An excerpt from issue #41 of befores & afters magazine.
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