befores & afters

Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to FX artist Urban Bradeško, aka the Explosions Guy, about the sparse GPU accelerated volumetric fluid solver, Axiom, which comes from Theory Accelerated.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to FMX Project Manager Mario Müller for a preview of the FMX conference coming up later in April in Stuttgart.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats oto Ingenuity Studios founding partner and VFX supervisor David Lebensfeld about the Showtime series 'Let the Right One In.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Anthony Ganju, one of the co-founders of Move ai, the markerless motion capture company which has developed software to extract human moton from video footage.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chat to filmmaker Adam Valdez about his short film made with Unreal Engine, Brave Creatures, including how the new Path Tracer rendering mode was used.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to His Dark Materials production visual effects supervisor Russell Dodgson, who hails from Framestore, about working on all 3 seasons of the show.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Adrian De Wet and visual effects producer Eve Fizzinoglia about the making of 'Slumberland's' big VFX shots, including the companion pig, the flying goose and the cuban hotel. We look at how each was planned, shot and executed. 

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to director Hjalti Hjálmarsson whose latest project is Blender Studio's 14th open movie, Charge, which features a highly realistic human main character.

Cinesite visual effects supervisor Ben White about his studio's work for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,  involving the Boston chase scenes.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Colin Strause about the CBS drama series 'Fire Country.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Paul Santagada, who was visual effects supervisor at FuseFX on Henry Selick's stop-motion film  Wendell & Wild.

This week on the befores & afters podcast, we're chatting to visual effects supervisor Frank Petzold about All Quiet on the Western Front , which is VFX Oscar nominated this year.

VFX supervisor Rob Legato looks back on 25 years since the James Cameron film was released. (And yes we talk about Propeller Guy!)

A special guide on all the places to find befores & afters VFX and animation content: beforesandafters.com web articles, the print magazine and this podcast! 

This week on the befores & afters podcast, Ian Failes chats to director Miguel Ortega about his African fable of sisterhood, envy and ancient evil made with Tran Ma called The Voice in the Hollow, and made with Unreal Engine.

Ian Failes chats to Gavin Fox, Henry Trotter and Lauren Anderson from Framestore about something a little different than visual effects: designing the 'Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination' exhibition at the Science Museum in London.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to artist, designer, and photographer Scott Eaton--well known for his work in anatomy and digital figure sculpting--on his use of A.I. in his own art, and his take on where A.I. in art is going. 

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VFX supervisor Jeff Okun about his work for 'The End is Nye' -- the series where Bill Nye is placed in some crazy end of the world scenarios.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to BlueBolt VFX supervisor Angela Barson and head of 3D Nic Birmingham about the invisible effects in 'The Northman'.

befores & afters chats to Outpost VFX visual effects supervisor Richard Clegg about the moment Galadriel, Elrond and Celebrimbor forge the Three Rings in Prime Video's 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.'

A special VFX Insight edition of the befores & afters podcast with Reallusion VP of marketing John Martin who discusses AccuRIG. AccuRIG is Reallusion's application designed for fast and accurate character rigging. It lets users turn static models into animatable 3D characters which can then be used in a bunch of DCC programs like iClone, Unreal Engine, Unity, Maya, Blender and more.

Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to Marcus Ottosson, CEO and founder of Imbalance, which makes Maya animation physics plugin Ragdoll Dynamics.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to ACCESS:VFX founder Simon Devereux and new European chapter head Chris Kiser about their latest efforts to improve diversity in the VFX industry.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Rob Bredow, SVP, Creative Innovation, Lucasfilm and Chief Creative Officer, ILM, about the latest on StageCraft and other virtual production workflows at the studio.

This week on the befores & afters podcast, Ian Failes chats to VFX supervisor Kevin Baillie about the virtual production methods utilized on Robert Zemeckis' Pinocchio .