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befores & afters
The befores & afters VFX podcast from journalist Ian Failes, covering the latest in visual effects, animation and virtual production.
ILM's Rachel Rose on the R&D side of visual effects
26 mins; March 31, 2026
ILM's Jeff White breaks down that incredible oner from 'The Avengers'
28 mins; March 21, 2026
Rob Bredow shares 'Solo' stories, and how ILM inspired him before he was even at ILM
24 mins; March 14, 2026
A deep dive into Wētā FX's visual effects for 'A Minecraft Movie'
34 mins; March 10, 2026
ILM's Janet Lewin reflects on more than three decades with the studio
22 mins; March 06, 2026
The creatures of 'Keeper'
31 mins; March 03, 2026
Our new ILM podcast series starts with Dennis Muren!
48 mins; February 25, 2026
Alec Gillis on the practical effects design process for 'Predator: Badlands'
28 mins; February 18, 2026
How the in-house VFX process worked on s2 of 'The Sandman'
58 mins; February 11, 2026
Crafting 'Andor' season 2
52 mins; February 05, 2026
How on-set scanning of environments and actor capture works
38 mins; January 20, 2026
How Framestore helped make the creatures and cinematography of 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age' feel so real
39 mins; January 06, 2026
Phil Tippett updates us on the state of his personal projects, and his view on AI
28 mins; December 09, 2025
What it's like to run a visual effects studio in China
58 mins; December 01, 2025
The painterly art and tech behind stop-motion animated 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls'
52 mins; November 24, 2025
Infinite Realities on the path to 4G gaussian splatting in digital human capture
76 hours 23 mins; November 18, 2025
Saint Walker on the new Core Skills of VFX Handbook 2025
28 mins; November 09, 2025
Discussing a new era in visual effects with Phantom Media Group
27 mins; November 04, 2025
The art and tech behind the body morphing in 'Together'
27 mins; October 22, 2025
What the role of CTO involves at Wētā FX
44 mins; October 06, 2025
How The Roddenberry Archive is preserving 'Star Trek' history
32 mins; September 29, 2025
Paul Franklin reflects on the VFX of 'Interstellar'
37 mins; September 14, 2025
Behind that crazy creature work in the finale of 'The Umbrella Academy'
25 mins; August 18, 2025
What exactly does the role of a visual effects producer involve?
78 hours 33 mins; July 20, 2025
How they made the new 'Lilo & Stitch'
42 mins; July 07, 2025
The surprising use of visual effects in season 6 of 'The Handmaid's Tale'
37 mins; June 16, 2025
How Steamroller Animation made a 30 min animated pilot episode in Unreal Engine
37 mins; May 22, 2025
Version Zero AI has a splines output solution for AI/ML rotoscoping
44 mins; May 19, 2025
The latest machine learning side of Silhouette
27 mins; May 12, 2025
AI and ML in VFX from a VFX artist/supervisor point of view
43 mins; May 05, 2025
Behind the development of Slapshot's AI roto and generative retiming tools
22 mins; April 28, 2025
Where Wonder Dynamics has now gone with its AI VFX tools
41 mins; April 21, 2025
The dream of AI roto with Electric Sheep
34 mins; April 13, 2025
How Rising Sun Pictures' REVIZE machine learning tech came to be
28 mins; April 06, 2025
Metaphysic's neural HMC performance injection tech
38 mins; March 30, 2025
Wētā FX used its Loki state machine for muscle simulations on Red Hulk in 'Captain America: Brave New World'
63 hours 15 mins; March 24, 2025
Why planes flying at hundreds of miles an hour is really tough to pull off in VFX
35 mins; March 13, 2025
Sponsored: How Reallusion AccuFace was used on 'Love is a Championship'
20 mins; March 05, 2025
How the motion capture worked on 'Better Man'
24 mins; February 18, 2025
The visual effects of 'Alien: Romulus'
32 mins; February 03, 2025
Will Becher from Aardman on the old-school and new-school tech in 'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl'
19 mins; January 30, 2025
The wide use of machine learning VFX techniques on 'Here'
49 mins; January 20, 2025
How the Academy Software Foundation works
46 mins; January 13, 2025
How to get VFX into your Sundance film
37 mins; January 03, 2025
Miniatures, puppets, lightsabers and Purrgils
31 mins; January 03, 2025
How to make practical bubble effects
44 mins; January 03, 2025
How DNEG made the troll in s2 of 'The Rings of Power'
47 mins; December 22, 2024
The virtual production behind 'Daddio'
21 mins; December 08, 2024
How the wrestling scenes in 'Unstoppable' were made
31 mins; November 29, 2024
In-depth on face replacement, environments and that crazy tennis ball POV shot in 'Challengers'
28 mins; November 27, 2024
Animation producer Jinko Gotoh on getting her start on 'Space Jam'
26 mins; November 25, 2024
Sponsored: How ActionVFX assets were used in 'Godzilla Minus One'
20 mins; November 20, 2024
The visual effects of 'Dune: Part Two'
57 mins; November 18, 2024
The making of 'Gladiator': a look back with VFX supervisor John Nelson
69 hours 51 mins; November 11, 2024
The VFX and stop-motion animation in 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice'
42 mins; November 04, 2024
The visual effects of 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians'
29 mins; October 28, 2024
Starting a startup in the world of VFX training
40 mins; October 21, 2024
Matt Estela: a life
80 hours 22 mins; October 14, 2024
The invisible visual effects in 'Longlegs'
35 mins; October 04, 2024
How the Visual Effects World Atlas might change your perspective on the VFX industry
26 mins; September 27, 2024
Creating alternate versions of reality for 'Dark Matter'
25 mins; September 20, 2024
'Sky Captain' turns 20: looking back at filmmaking on the digital backlot
67 hours 27 mins; September 17, 2024
Behind the invisible effects of 'The Instigators'
28 mins; September 13, 2024
How Wētā FX made that 5400 frame Vermithor dragon oner in 'House of the Dragon'
24 mins; September 06, 2024
Sponsored: How Reallusion tools were used for concept previs on '3 Body Problem'
13 mins; September 02, 2024
A preview of the VFX and animation conference VIEW taking place in Italy in October
29 mins; September 01, 2024
A look at the state of play of virtual production with Jim Geduldick
71 hours 41 mins; August 29, 2024
The state of play in VFX employment right now
31 mins; August 22, 2024
VFX supervisor Stephan Fleet on the latest mayhem he helped orchestrate for 'The Boys'
34 mins; August 08, 2024
Celebrating the CG legacy of 'The Last Starfighter'
42 mins; July 28, 2024
The machine learning tech behind Digital Domain's in-house facial capture tool Masquerade3
27 mins; July 22, 2024
All about the motion base mechs in the Jennifer Lopez film, 'Atlas'
44 mins; July 14, 2024
Behind the tests, on-set shoot and CG animation of the characters in 'IF'
45 mins; July 07, 2024
The visual effects of Pixar's 'Inside Out 2'
24 mins; July 01, 2024
How those nuclear explosions in 'Fallout' were made
32 mins; June 23, 2024
How multiple Robert Downey Jr.'s appeared on screen in 'The Sympathizer'
24 mins; June 17, 2024
How 'Ripley' used VFX to aid in its storytelling
48 mins; June 13, 2024
Go behind the scenes of this full-length CG anime from HaZ Dulull
78 hours 57 mins; June 10, 2024
The creatures of 'Avatar: The Last Airbender'
26 mins; June 08, 2024
You might not even notice any VFX in 'We Were the Lucky Ones'
24 mins; June 06, 2024
Creatures, battles, environments -- the big VFX in 'Halo The Series' s2
24 mins; June 06, 2024
The invisible effects of 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves'
24 mins; June 05, 2024
All about time slipping and spaghettification in 'Loki' s2
25 mins; June 04, 2024
VFX supe Jason Zimmerman on Star Trek: Discovery s5 and Strange New Worlds s2
37 mins; June 03, 2024
Stefen Fangmeier on the big '3 Body Problem' VFX moments
41 mins; May 27, 2024
Visual effects problem solving: the dinosaurs of '65'
23 mins; May 20, 2024
Chris Nichols on Chaos' new adventure in virtual production
39 mins; May 10, 2024
Going from VFX artist to short film director
40 mins; May 05, 2024
Making slimer, a sewer dragon and those Mini-Pufts for 'Frozen Empire'
31 mins; April 28, 2024
Tim Landry reflects on his time at Dream Quest and at Disney Imagineering
34 mins; April 22, 2024
How the animatronic baby from 'The Matrix' was made
43 mins; April 14, 2024
'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' VFX supervisor Alessandro Ongaro
58 mins; April 12, 2024
Yeti creator Colin Doncaster on the challenges of VFX software development
79 hours 59 mins; April 08, 2024
What you didn't know about how that helicopter rescue in 'The Matrix' was filmed
42 mins; March 31, 2024
Preview the big sessions of FMX 2024 with Mario Müller
25 mins; March 27, 2024
Eyeline Studios' new tech volumetric capture tech used on 'YuYu Hakusho'
45 mins; March 25, 2024
The stuntvis behind that stunning oner 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3'
40 mins; March 18, 2024
Virtual sets in Doctor Who
26 mins; March 10, 2024
Going from greenscreen buck to soaring creature
36 mins; March 03, 2024
A new kind of VFX collective emerges with Dream Machine FX
30 mins; February 25, 2024
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