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Issue #15 of the magazine is out (and has some big changes)
Jump into the world of models and miniature effects filmmaking in the latest issue of the 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.
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.
You can now watch Framestore’s ‘FLITE’ in full online
The virtual production short film was also covered in depth in befores & afters magazine.
‘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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befores & afters magazine is now also an e-book!
Still always in print, but now available as a Kindle e-book.
‘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.
Machine learning at the VFX studio level
How Digital Domain has adopted deep learning and AI into its visual effects toolsets.
Going deep on muscle strains
Why Wētā FX changed its animation system and adopted new deep learning methodologies for ‘The Way of Water.’
The story behind RenderMan 25’s machine learning Denoiser
How the new denoiser works.
Be the first to get issue #1 in e-book form
Issue #1 is available right now as a print AND a digital Kindle e-book on Amazon.
Real-time depth compositing with an AI-assist
Behind the system Wētā FX invented for ‘The Way of Water’.
Just add bats
On the 30th anniversary of 'Cliffhanger', a look at the, er, very efficient bat art direction for a particular scene.
‘If this is going to work, we really have to cover Paul Thomas Anderson shots’
The co-founder of Wonder Dynamics breaks down how the AI VFX tool Wonder Studio was made for storytellers.
Issue #11 is here, and it’s all about AI in VFX and animation
100 pages on new AI tools, how VFX studios use machine learning.
The best of both worlds
Marrying practical miniatures with CG served perfectly on RRR’s dramatic bridge scene.
‘They talked to the puppet like an actor’
Spectral Motion breaks down their practical characters for ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
Issue #10 of befores & afters magazine goes deep on practical effects
Coverage of the latest in creature and make-up effects, miniatures and in-camera effects.
Issue #9 of the magazine is here!
This latest issue focuses on feature animation.
The unique challenge of making a stalking, unfolding, alien entity that hides amongst the clouds
MPC’s key role in designing Nope’s ‘Jean Jacket’: an excerpt from issue #8 of befores & afters magazine.
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