befores & afters

Ian Failes

The befores & afters VFX podcast from journalist Ian Failes, covering the latest in visual effects, animation and virtual production.

214 Episodes

Behind the development of Slapshot's AI roto and generative retiming tools
1 dzień temu
22:37
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Jon Mason, the co-founder and CEO of Slapshot, an AI-powered VFX toolkit.
Where Wonder Dynamics has now gone with its AI VFX tools
4/21/2025
41:46
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.
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The dream of AI roto with Electric Sheep
4/13/2025
34:05
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Electric Sheep co-founders Gary Palmer and Richie Murray about their company's AI rotoscoping product.
How Rising Sun Pictures' REVIZE machine learning tech came to be
4/6/2025
28:40
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.
Metaphysic's neural HMC performance injection tech
3/31/2025
38:29
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'.
Wētā FX used its Loki state machine for muscle simulations on Red Hulk in 'Captain America: Brave New World'
3/25/2025
1:03:15
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.
Why planes flying at hundreds of miles an hour is really tough to pull off in VFX
3/13/2025
35:45
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'.
Sponsored: How Reallusion AccuFace was used on 'Love is a Championship'
3/5/2025
20:34
Creative director, director & producer Geoff Hect discusses the use of Reallusion’s iClone and Accuface for markerless facial capture and animation.
How the motion capture worked on 'Better Man'
2/18/2025
24:04
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.'
The visual effects of 'Alien: Romulus'
2/3/2025
32:12
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Alien: Romulus' visual effects supervisor Eric Barba about the VFX Oscar nominated film.

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befores & afters

Ian Failes

214 Episodes

Behind the development of Slapshot's AI roto and generative retiming tools

Where Wonder Dynamics has now gone with its AI VFX tools

The dream of AI roto with Electric Sheep

How Rising Sun Pictures' REVIZE machine learning tech came to be

Metaphysic's neural HMC performance injection tech

Wētā FX used its Loki state machine for muscle simulations on Red Hulk in 'Captain America: Brave New World'

Why planes flying at hundreds of miles an hour is really tough to pull off in VFX

Sponsored: How Reallusion AccuFace was used on 'Love is a Championship'

How the motion capture worked on 'Better Man'

The visual effects of 'Alien: Romulus'