befores & afters

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'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Pixar visual effects supervisor Sudeep Rangaswamy about 'Inside Out 2', including about new character rigging and particle approaches, using RenderMan, simulating that crazy memory orb avalanche, and more.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to RISE visual effects supervisor Andreas Giesen about the Amazon Prime Video series, 'Fallout', including that opening nuclear set of explosions.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Chad Wanstreet, the visual effects supervisor on HBO's 'The Sympathizer' about the crazy private lounge scene that features multiple characters played by Robert Downey Jr., with impressive face replacement work, plus many other scenes in the series.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Ripley' visual effects producer Joseph Servodio and visual effects supervisor John Bowers about the 'murder boat' scene, environments and *that* wig.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to HaZ Dulull, co-founder of HaZimation and the director of the indie CG animated feature 'MAX BEYOND.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Jabbar Ray Saaknee Raisani (who is an Executive Producer, Director & VFX Supervisor on the show), and Marion Spates (a VFX Supervisor on Airbender) about Appa, Momo, the badger mole and the ostrich horse.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Oliver Cubbage about the Hulu series, 'We Were the Lucky Ones.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Wojciech Zielinski about season 2 of  Halo The Series . We discuss lots of different aspects of the VFX work, including shooting the battles, carrying out on set stunts, delivering creatures and also environments.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves' visual effects supervisor Jon Massey about the set extensions, Civil War scenes and more in the show.

Ian Failes chats to Marvel visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend about season 2 of 'Loki'. In particular we jump into all aspects of time slipping, spaghettification, the loom and the invisible visual effects in this season.