Issue #26 of befores & afters in PRINT is on the VFX of ‘Wicked’!
In-depth and with a ton of before and after images.
A mix of old and new
The stop motion animation and VFX tech used on ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’. An excerpt from issue #25 of befores
‘If you want a painterly bush, paint the bush’
How the painterly style of ‘The Wild Robot’ was realized. An excerpt from issue #25 of befores & afters magazine.
‘I still have red dust on my motion base’
The practical and digital effects that made sandworm riding possible in 'Dune: Part Two'.
A new challenge: the Offspring
How Legacy Effects crafted the practical creature effects for the Offspring in 'Alien: Romulus'.
The big animated features are covered in issue #25 of befores & afters mag!
Behind the scenes of Inside Out 2, Moana 2, The Wild Robot, Ultraman: Rising, Transformers One, That Christmas and Wallace & Gromit:
Issue #24 of befores & afters magazine is a full issue on Robert Zemeckis’ ‘Here’
The new issue of befores & afters magazine in PRINT is now out!
Issue #23 of the print mag is a FULL issue on the VFX of ‘Dune: Part Two’
Yep, a full issue all about the making of the film.
The making of Rook in ‘Alien: Romulus’
UPDATED: Legacy Effects and Metaphysic combined to make the character. Excerpts from befores & afters magazine in print.
How miniatures were made on ‘Alien: Romulus’
Miniature effects supervisor Ian Hunter and Pro Machina teamed up for the film. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine in print.
‘Why don’t we just put a facehugger on top of a radio-controlled car and drive it around?’
The wide variety of practical facehuggers made by Wētā Workshop for Alien: Romulus. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine in print.
‘You’re going to get slime on yourself, OK’
How Legacy Effects crafted Xenomorphs, cocoons, Rook, the Offspring and a lot of slime for Alien: Romulus. An excerpt from befores &
Giving the chestburster its moment on screen
How Alec Gillis orchestrated the intense effects for the chestburster, and more, on Alien: Romulus. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine
Shooting on an LED volume…on film
Magnopus details its particular virtual production approaches on Fallout, which included capturing the LED wall scenes on 35mm film. An excerpt from
Behind the scenes of the practical and digital creatures and worlds of ‘Alien: Romulus’
Xenomorphs! Facehuggers! The chestburster!
In the volume with gladiators, chariots and horses
A round-table discussion on the virtual production challenges of Those About to Die. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
Motion bases, mo-co cameras and monofilament wires
Behind the techniques used to craft the dragon riding scenes in season two of House of the Dragon. An excerpt from befores
Go behind the scenes on the latest virtual production shoots in issue #21 of the print mag!
House of the Dragon, Fallout and Those About to Die!
The way of water (in ‘Ripley’)
How Wētā FX delivered invisible effects for the gripping boat sequence. From befores & afters magazine in print.
‘As long as it’s invisible, it works’
How Whiskytree created the Paris establisher in Masters of the Air. From befores & afters magazine.
Return to Pandora in the latest befores & afters print magazine!
This special issue of befores & afters magazine takes a new deep dive into Avatar: The Way of Water with Wētā FX.
Spinning skip bins, seamless face replacements, and setting fire to Ryan Gosling
Here’s how VFX helped enhance the incredible practical stunts and SFX in ‘The Fall Guy’. From befores & afters magazine in print.
‘I’ve got a feeling Alex has always had that shot in his head’
How Framestore built a living, breathing and under siege Washington, D.C. for ‘Civil War’. From befores & afters print magazine.
The VFX challenges of ‘Challengers’
How tennis doubles, face replacements, machine learning, CG courts, balls and rackets, and even plexiglass helped make the stylized gameplay of the
Getting inside the mind of your CG character
Animation supervisor Brett Purmal on the lengths he and MPC took to find the right emotion behind Hanuš the space spider in
Issue #19 of the print mag looks at a stunning array of invisible effects
Covering those incredible seamless shots in recent films and episodic.
‘The build was similar to an ape with a lizard squished inside of it’
How Alt.vfx delivered the sinister Helen creature for ‘YuYu Hakusho’. A new excerpt from befores & afters magazine.