befores & afters

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Thomas Tannenberger from Crafty Apes, and Landon Bootsma from Gneiss Stuff, about 'Unstoppable' and the incredible face replacement and other invisible effects work in the film.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to ZERO VFX visual effects supervisor Brian Drewes about the tennis film, 'Challengers.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Jinko Gotoh about her animation career, and we preview her keynote session coming to SIGGRAPH Asia in Tokyo.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Tom Cowles, Social Media & Community Manager, at Action VFX, about the use of Action VFX assets on Godzilla Minus One.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert about 'Dune: Part Two', including on the opening eclipse moments, the sandworm riding, the attack on the spice harvester, how Giedi Prime was made, the battle of Arrakis, and how the Fremen's blue eyes were achieved. 

Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to 'Gladiator' visual effects supervisor John Nelson about the original film from 2000, including that very famous Steadicam shot of the Gladiators entering the Colosseum, the Rome builds, the amazing tiger fight, and the forest battle in Germania.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' visual effects supervisor Angus Bickerton, and to Ian Mackinnon, stop motion supervising producer, and Chris Tichborne, animation supervisor -- covering sandworms, the plane crash and more!

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Erik Henry about the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, including the use of ILM StageCraft, and the creation of many CG creatures.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Urban Bradeško, founder of DoubleJump Academy, about launching a VFX training company and what it took to get there.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Matt Estela about Houdini, CG Wiki and his path from VFX into...a different world.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Longlegs' visual effects supervisor Edward Douglas about the horror film and some VFX you might not have noticed.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Joseph Bell, who has collated data on the world's largest VFX hubs and VFX studios, the global distribution of VFX skill sets and more in his Visual Effects World Atlas.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Dark Matter' visual effects supervisor John Heller about crafting the different versions of Chicago in the show.

Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to DOP Eric Adkins on the 20th anniversary of 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow', a film that was almost entirely shot on bluescreen.

Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to visual effects supervisor Mark Russell about the Doug Liman film The Instigators, and its mix of car chases, explosions and even addition of water onto actors.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Wētā FX visual effects supervisor Wayne Stables about his studio's work on season 2 of 'House of the Dragon'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to artist Jakub Kaźmierczak about his concepts and environment previsualization and the Reallusion tools he used for the Netflix series '3 Body Problem'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VIEW Conference's Maria Elena Gutierrez about what to expect at this year's event, including the just announced presence of Alien: Romulus director Fede Álvarez.

Ian Failes chats to virtual production supervisor and visual effects supervisor Jim Geduldick about the state of play in all things VP, including LED walls, on-set work and the future landscape with machine learning and AI.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VFX recruiter Simon Davies, from Digital Arts Xchange, about the current challenging visual effects and anmation employment environment. Simon shares some advice for artists right now looking to get back into the industry, and about getting a VFX job generally.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Stephan Fleet about season 4 of 'The Boys.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Jim Rygiel about his time at Digital Productions on 'The Last Starfighter', which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, and still resonates as a groundbreaking achievement in CG and VFX to this day.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Digital Domain CTO Hanno Basse about Masquerade3, the latest incarnation of DD's in-house facial capture tool.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Lindy De Quattro about Brad Peyton's 'Atlas'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VFX supervisor Chris Lawrence and animation supervisor Arslan Elver about their work on director John Krasinski's 'IF'.