befores & afters

Lola VFX's Trent Claus and b&a's Ian Failes discuss which film was the first to use a digital face replacement.

In this sponsored podcast, befores & afters editor Ian Failes talks to Foundry founders Bruno Nicoletti and Simon Robinson about the early days of the company, the first plugins sold, how the Nuke acquisition from Digital Domain happened, and other key milestones in Foundry's quarter-century history.

Motion capture performer and actor Marta Svetek and befores & afters' Ian Failes discuss where mocap first made it into a feature film.

General Lift's Joe Lewis and b&a's Ian Failes discuss the first time motion control was used in a film.

'Birds of Prey' and 'John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum' picture editor Evan Schiff joins Ian Failes from befores & afters to discuss NLEs and digital film editing. 

What was the first composite done in Nuke at Digital Domain? That's what Ian Failes from befores & afters and Hugo Guerra from Hugo's Desk discuss in this episode.

MR.X lead FX artist Gus Sanchez-Perez and b&a's Ian Failes discuss the first ever ocean simulation in a film.

Previs supervisor Margaux Durand-Rival and befores & afters' Ian Failes discuss the first time previs was used for a feature film.

Stop-motion animator and video illusion creator Kevin Parry and b&a's Ian Failes ask, 'What was the first film to use stop-motion?'

Houdini artist Matt Estela and befores & afters editor Ian Failes reveal which film was the first ever to use Houdini.

DNEG's Gavin Graham and b&a's Ian Failes discuss the first ever cloud tank used on a film. 

Ian Failes from befores & afters and Paul Debevec, Director of Research, Creative Algorithms and Technology at Netflix and also an Adjunct Research Professor, USC Computer Science & USC ICT, discuss Light Stage 3 and its role in many Hollywood productions.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to model supervisor Robbie Scott from 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', to look back at the creation of the Hogwarts Castle miniature from the first film.

Looking back at the work of Stan Winston Studio for 'Jurassic Park', Legacy Effects co-founder Shane Mahan reflects on his work for the practical Dilophosaurus 'Spitter' dino in the film. 

In this episode of VFX Artifacts, Phil Tippett discusses the stop-motion character work for ED-209 in 'RoboCop'.

Computer graphics pioneer Alvy Ray Smith and befores & afters' Ian Failes discuss the invention of the alpha channel.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to software developer Paul Miller about the making of Elastic Reality, one of the 'hot' pieces of VFX software from the 1990s.

Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to Frank Gallego, who at Innovation Arts worked with his team, Manex Visual Effects and others to help design and manufacture the 121-camera bullet time rig used for 'The Matrix'.

Craig Hayes, one of the original developers of the Dinosaur Input Device (DID), tells Ian Failes from befores & afters how it came about on Jurassic Park.

You've found the new destination for the VFX podcasts previously known as VFX Futurs, VFX Firsts and VFX Artifacts....all of these are now part of the befores & afters podcast from Ian Failes!