‘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.
‘All this is not to do with animatronics. It’s to do with characters’
How one animatronics designer and puppeteer has made his way into the world of Star Wars, Dark Crystal and more.
Inside issue #7 of b&a mag: animatronics, creature effects and Phil Tippett’s ‘MAD GOD’
The latest issue of befores & afters magazine has arrived!
Breaking down a low-budget stop-motion scene
Animator Angus Lamont reveals how he crafted a giant monster attack in his makeshift garage/studio.
‘Where’s the head? When’s the head going to turn up?’
‘The Bubble’ had some slightly unusual visual effects requirements to help deliver its tongue-in-cheek tale.
The art and design and VFX of a music video
A breakdown of Father John Misty's single ‘Funny Girl’.
147 3D printed pieces helped make this BBC Winter Olympics spot possible
How Blinkink had to solve some interesting previs, stop-motion and 3D printing challenges for the promo. ‘Extreme by Nature’, a spot for
Issue #6: stop-motion, music videos, Predator, DragonHeart, The Bubble!
120 pages of visual effects in print.
The invisible effects of ‘Winning Time’
An excerpt from issue #5 of befores & afters magazine.
The invisible VFX of ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
An excerpt from the 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' article in issue #5 of befores & afters mag.
Issue #5 of befores & afters magazine is FULL of invisible effects coverage
From 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' to 'Our Flag Means Death'.
A history of CG bird flocking
Do you know about Boids?
When your bird is actually a fish
Behind those CG birds in 'The Core', and how one of them was actually a...salmon! An excerpt from issue #4 of befores
Issue #59: The visual effects of Pluribus
Issue #58: The visual effects of Fallout, season 2
Issue #57: The visual effects of IT: Welcome to Derry
