How on set LiDAR scanning works
LiDAR and photogrammetry specialist company Visualskies breaks down its process. A new excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
The on set visual effects experience for invisible effects
The making of ‘Fargo’s fifth installment. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
The enduring allure of the VFX of ‘Speed’
30 years of this masterpiece.
How to put Adam Sandler in space talking to a spider alien
From on-set to final visual effects in ‘Spaceman’. A new excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
The art of shooting array plates
Photographic and virtual environment specialists PlatePros on what’s involved on set in filming car process plates and other camera array shoots. An
The on set VFX approach on ‘The Creator’ was different from most
The challenges of capturing gray and chrome balls, HDRIs, and reference imagery on the run-and-gun Gareth Edwards film. A new excerpt from
Issue #16 of the magazine is now out and it’s a fun look at how flying scenes are made
Featuring coverage of 'Masters of the Air', 'Lift', 'Society of the Snow', 'No Way Up' and 'Turbulence'.
A sense of (clever) scale
The secrets behind the scale and miniature effects in ‘I’m A Virgo’. A new excerpt from issue #15 of befores & afters
How to get bonus VFX content by joining the b&a Patreon
Early access to podcasts and videos, and exclusive RETRO VFX stories.
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’.
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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