befores & afters

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Brendan Taylor from Mavericks VFX and the VFX of season 6 of 'The Handmaid's Tale', including the opening train scenes filmed with an LED wall, the wedding scene, which had an interesting object removal challenge, muzzle flash work, crowds, that dramatic plane explosion and the final Boston environment shots.

Ian Failes chats to key members of Steamroller Animation - Adam Meyer, Josh Carroll and Dave Alve - about their pilot episode of 'Spice Frontier'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Version Zero AI co-founders Chad Wanstreet and Allan McKay about their new platform and tool that utilizes machine leaning for roto, matting, clean painting and paint.

Ian Failes chats to Marco Paolini and Paul Miller, two names synonymous with rotoscoping tool Silhouette from Boris FX, about the machine learning developments now implemented in the tool.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor and VFX artist Andreas Maaninka about his take on the wave of AI and ML tools and techniques hitting the industry right now.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Jon Mason, the co-founder and CEO of Slapshot, an AI-powered VFX toolkit.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Nikola Todorovic, co-founder of Wonder Dynamics, about the latest AI-related aspects of the tool, including motion prediction. 

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Electric Sheep co-founders Gary Palmer and Richie Murray about their company's AI rotoscoping product.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Rising Sun Pictures President Jennie Zeiher about the studio's machine learning toolset called REVIZE, used on many projects for face and body replacement.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Jo Plaete from Metaphysic about the use of its neural HMC performance injection tech, including for the character Rook in 'Alien: Romulus'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Wētā FX VFX supervisor Dan Cox and animation supervisor Sidney Kombo-Kintombo about the character played by Harrison Ford.

Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to Digital Domain visual effects supervisor Hanzhi Tang and digital effects supervisor Ryan Duhaime about the Celestial Island dogfight sequence in 'Captain America: Brave New World'.

Creative director, director & producer Geoff Hect discusses the use of Reallusion's iClone and Accuface for markerless facial capture and animation.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Wētā FX visual effects supervisor Luke Millar and actor Jonno Davies about the motion capture in 'Better Man.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Alien: Romulus' visual effects supervisor Eric Barba about the VFX Oscar nominated film.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Will Becher, supervising animator and stop motion lead at Aardman, about 'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl' and the tech used in the film.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VFX supervisor Kevin Baillie about the Robert Zemeckis film, 'Here', and its use of machine learning de-ageing techniques, virtual production and other ML approaches.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to David Morin, who is the Executive Director at the Academy Software Foundation about the VFX software packages the ASWF encompasses.

Ian Failes chats to VFX supervisor Alex Noble, who is the founder of Wild Union Post, about visual effects for independent films, including those submitted for the Sundance Film Festival.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to DNEG visual effects supervisor Greg Butler about his studio's work on season 2 of 'The Rings of Power'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to director, cinematographer and VFX artist Christopher Webb from FX WRX about practical effects in two recent projects, including one involving water and bubbles.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Disguise VP of Virtual Production, Addy Ghani about the film 'Daddio'. The Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn film is unique because it is essentially one long taxi ride that was effectively fully shot on an LED stage.

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'.

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.