befores & afters

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to The Third Floor's Casey Schatz, who was simulcam supervisor on 'The Way of Water', but also responsible for several other virtual production aspects of the film.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Mohen Leo, the production visual effects supervisor on 'Andor'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Tom Turnbull about the Tim Burton series from Netflix.

Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to production VFX supervisor Grady Cofer and production animation supervisor Hal Hickel about season 3 of 'The Mandalorian', including the use of StageCraft, practical effects and digital effects for Grogu and IG-12, and the final jetpack battle.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'The Nevers' production visual effects supervisor Johnny Han and Accenture Song visual effects supervisor Emanuel Fuchs about the incredible Shockdog.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to beloFX visual effects supervisor Oli Atherton and CG supervisor James Roberts to discuss their work on 'The Last of Us', including incorporating Unreal Engine into the VFX pipeline.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Unity's Natasha Tatarchuk about the announcement of the Unity Wētā Tools Division.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to on-set visual effects supervisor James MacLachlan about season 3 of 'Ted Lasso', the stand-in pitch used for filming and the stadium and crowd replication VFX used.

On the 30th anniversary of 'The Fugitive', Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to visual effects William Masa, then at Introvision, about the VFX 'front projection' and miniatures shots with Harrison Ford in the spectacular train and bus crash sequence.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Dune' special effects supervisor Gerd Nefzer, an interview previously carried out for SPARK FX. It seems timely in this current wave of discussion on practical and digital effects in modern movie-making.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Todd Sheridan Perry about the incredible Boots Riley show, 'I'm a Virgo', which needed to feature a 'human' character  12 to 13 feet tall.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to special effects coordinator Matthew Stratton about his miniature plane explosions and full-scale explosions for the Michael B Chait film, 'Wolf Hound.'

In this special sponsored podcast from Reallusion, we talk to James Martin and John Martin from Actor Capture, about their special brand of visualization and motion capture offerings.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Asteroid City' miniature unit supervisor Simon Weisse about both props and models crafted for the Wes Anderson film.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VFX supervisor Eric Durst about his early career in commercials for brands like Pepsi, Volkswagen and Polaroid where many major innovations took place in digital compositing, motion control and even morphing. 

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to the co-founders of Left Angle, Alexandre Gauthier-Foichat and Francois Grassard, about their new compositing and motion graphics tool, Autograph.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Steve Dabal, creative director at The Family, about indie sci-fi romantic comedy 'Molli and Max in the Future' which was made with the help of some fun practical effects and in-camera VFX with an LED volume.

In this special Reallusion-sponsored episode, we're chatting to John C. Martin from Reallusion and Jeff Scheetz from Monkey Chow Animation Studios about the 3D motion content pack, 'Run for Your Life', available for Reallusion's ActorCore.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'The Last of Us' visual effects supervisor Alex Wang about orchestrating the massive VFX effort on the show, including crafting post-apocalytpic environments, the clicker creatures, and working with and building giraffes.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Industrial Light & Magic visual effects supervisor Scott Pritchard about 'Andor'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'The Handmaid's Tale' visual effects producer Stephen Lebed and visual effects supervisor Brendan Taylor.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to writer and director Chris Perry about his short, Little Bird, which used a number of bespoke tools for rigging characters, and for crafting a stylized look and feel in Unreal Engine.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Halon Entertainment co-founder Brad Alexander about the studio's postvis work on 'Cocaine Bear'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Matilda' production VFX supervisor Simon Stanley-Clamp, who also hails from Cinesite.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats  Star Trek: Picard visual effects supervisor Brian Tatosky about the final episode of the series and that insane Borg and Enterprise-D encounter.