Here’s what befores & afters is up to at VIEW Conference!
Hosting panels, sessions, workshops...and with the mags and book available!
Doug Chiang reflects on the day he first used Photoshop
How the famed designer jumped onto the tool during the shift into digital at ILM.
5 sessions not to miss at VIEW Conference 2025
Also, how to score a 20% discount on tickets!
Learn the art and craft of animation and VFX at VIEW Conference
All the big names, a 3 hr workshop from me, and how to get a 20% ticket discount.
Looking for the not-to-miss VFX presentations at VIEW? Here’s our picks
Our top 5 must-see sessions on visual effects at VIEW Conference.
‘Alien: Romulus’ director Fede Álvarez and ‘Fallout’ director Jonah Nolan will be at VIEW
Find out more in this special preview podcast with VIEW Conference artistic director Maria Elena Gutierrez, PLUS how you can get a
Exclusive: Alec Gillis is speaking at VIEW Conference on practical effects and ‘Alien: Romulus’
Gillis joins a host of effects and animation artists and other filmmakers in Turin, Italy.
‘The pain comes in just making that early commitment to the creative vision’
'Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget' director Sam Fell on the challenges of making a new–and even more bold–Aardman stop-motion film.
Creatives from this year’s biggest VFX films and animated features are speaking at VIEW
Across the Spider-Verse, Barbie, TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, Oppenheimer, Guardians Vol. 3, Nimona, Elemental - and that's only SOME of the projects that
VIEW Conference is a great place to get practical tips on VFX
A special EXCLUSIVE excerpt from Lola VFX's 2022 session at VIEW.
ILM’s Hal Hickel on how nostalgia and CG backlash can affect the perception of VFX
The ILM animation director gave this fantastic talk at VIEW Conference this year.
Does A.I. kill art, the tech behind ‘Love and Thunder’, and getting a job in VFX
Here's what befores & afters is up to this year at the VIEW Conference.
When you come to the VIEW Conference, it’s more than just amazing speakers
The program is out, and so are details about recruitment, exhibitors and special sessions.
Roger Deakins on cinematography and VFX cross-over, and why the DOP calls his stills photography ‘personal scribbles’
"I spend a lot of time trying to take photographs. But I can go days and not take a single frame."
It’s 25 years since ‘Dragonheart’; learn the VFX secrets behind the film
One of the befores & afters retro panels happening at VIEW Conference
The secrets behind the ‘Independence Day’ cloud tank effects
Learn more about the spaceship arrival/cloud tank VFX at this exclusive VIEW Conference panel.
Phil Tippett goes behind the scenes of ‘MAD GOD’
A video excerpt from a VIEW Conference chat with the stop-motion/VFX legend.
One of the toughest effects in ‘Twister’: sunflowers
'I'm in trouble. They're not going to grow.'
Learn the untold stories of the effects for ‘Twister’
Watch the full replay of the VIEW Conference anniversary panel.
“I gotta go Julia, we got cows”
Twister's VFX team is back.
How to pitch your project: tips from Jorge R. Gutierrez and Shannon Tindle
A special preview of their on-demand talk from VIEW Conference 2020.
Dennis Muren on the origins of ‘Stained Glass Man’ in ‘Young Sherlock Holmes’
An exclusive preview from the ILM VFX supe’s VIEW Conference talk.
VFX past, present and future at VIEW
Old-school practical FX, and virtual production, panels to check out at the conference.
Tomm Moore on his distinctive style of animated filmmaking
The 'Wolfwalkers' director is one of the speakers at VIEW Conference 2020.
‘It has become feasible to generate useful movies with the computer’
Ed Catmull, soon to speak at VIEW Conference, saw the potential for computer animation early on. Very, early on.
The newest speaker announced for VIEW Conference is…Phil Tippett!
He'll be diving into stop-motion, visual effects and the art of making films.
See Pixar’s Dylan Sisson in a new PreVIEW of VIEW Conference (and RenderMan!)
I'll be joining him for a chat about the latest RenderMan tech, including NPR.
Get my new book in PRINT or on KINDLE.
Issue #67: The visual effects of Masters of the Universe.
Latest limited edition t-shirt: Pseudopod.
