Podcasts The insider guide to the art and tech of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ ·February 10, 2023 A new VFX Notes breaks down the big ticket VFX items in the film.
VFX Breakdowns Watch PFX’s VFX breakdown for ‘Medieval’ ·February 10, 2023 Here's how the Czech VFX studio PFX crafted 650 visual effects shots for the Petr Jakl film.
Articles ‘I like the idea of doing a real place, underwater tank, LED screen, animatronic and CG, and then glueing them all together’ ·February 9, 2023 How ‘Emancipation’ VFX supervisor Rob Legato designed the Will Smith vs alligator scene.
VFX Breakdowns Check out Cause and FX’s breakdown for ‘Mosquito Coast’ ·February 9, 2023 See how the studio executed a key storm sequence and other shots in series 2.
VFX Breakdowns Watch Rodeo FX’s digi-double work for ‘Stranger Things 4’ ·February 8, 2023 A new breakdown explores the human character VFX.
Magazine Strange designs ·February 7, 2023 Wētā FX unleashes zombies, and strange environs, for Multiverse of Madness.
Podcasts Digital people, CG water, miniatures, morphing: ‘Titanic’ had it all ·February 6, 2023 VFX supervisor Rob Legato looks back on 25 years since the film was released. And yes we talk about Propeller Guy!
VFX Breakdowns Imageworks breaks down ‘The Sea Beast’ ·February 4, 2023 A very impressive VFX breakdown video showcasing water effects, rigging, and character work.
Articles Sci-Tech winners announced ·February 4, 2023 Sci-Techs include recognition of rain bar practical FX, renderfarm management, 3D texturing and AI-driven facial veiling technology.
VFX Breakdowns Watch a whole bunch of ‘Wakanda Forever’ breakdowns in one place ·February 4, 2023 Featuring reels from Marvel, Digital Domain, Cinesite, Storm Studios, Scanline and Weta FX.
VFX Insight Using iClone 8 with Vicon to recreate the iconic ‘I am your father’ scene from ‘Empire’ ·February 3, 2023 Here’s how Quitasueño Studio crafted the scene with motion capture and real-time tools.
Magazine The unique challenge of making a stalking, unfolding, alien entity that hides amongst the clouds ·February 2, 2023 MPC’s key role in designing Nope’s ‘Jean Jacket’: an excerpt from issue #8 of befores & afters magazine.
VFX Breakdowns Check out Scanline’s VFX breakdown for ‘Andor’ ·February 2, 2023 The studio has posted its reel.
VFX Breakdowns Fun lighting rigs and stunt rigging set-ups on Lockwood & Co ·February 2, 2023 Check out this official Netflix video.
VFX Breakdowns See the on-location and VFX process for ‘Prehistoric Planet’ ·February 1, 2023 MPC has released a new behind the scenes video.
Articles Here’s how Industrial Light & Magic orchestrated Luthen’s ‘lightsaber’ ship in ‘Andor’ ·January 31, 2023 Plus, behind the scenes on ship builds to replicate the ‘miniatures look’, Ferrix’s shipyard, and Coruscant’s cityscapes.
Articles How to find befores & afters content online, in audio and video, and in print ·January 30, 2023 A quick round-up of where you can find befores & afters stories, podcasts, videos and social media postings.
VFX Breakdowns How those underwater scenes were made in ‘Wakanda Forever’ ·January 29, 2023 Watch this new Marvel featurette.
VFX Breakdowns Go behind the scenes of JUNG_E ·January 27, 2023 This featurette includes VFX making of material.
Articles NEW to the befores & afters Patreon – LIVE STREAMS! ·January 26, 2023 Sign up for a ton of bonus content, and now introducing, live streams...
Articles The volumetric capture crowd tech behind ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ ·January 25, 2023 A step-by-step on how 700 terabytes worth of volumetric capture was crafted for the concert crowds in the Whitney Houston biopic.
Articles The VFX Oscar noms are out! ·January 25, 2023 Congrats to the nominees, and here's how befores & afters covered each project.
Articles How the ‘Pinocchio’ VFX team took the stop-motion further ·January 24, 2023 They crafted environments, water, snow, rain and many other effects for the Guillermo del Toro film.
VFX Breakdowns VIDEO: Explore this VFX breakdown for ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ ·January 24, 2023 Director Scott Cooper's film, now on Netflix, features a range of invisible effects supervised by Jake Braver and crafted by studios including Phosphene FX and ILM.
Magazine The latest issue of befores & afters magazine goes deep on VFX art departments ·January 23, 2023 The designs in Nope, The Witcher and more--from the point of view of the VFX studios.