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The befores & afters VFX podcast from journalist Ian Failes, covering the latest in visual effects, animation and virtual production.
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Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Wētā FX CTO Kimball Thurstan about being a CTO of the revered visual effects studio. We discuss a range of topics, including rendering, de-noising, data flows and…yes…AI.
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Mark Spatny, now VFX supervisor and VAD supervisor at OTOY, about his work at The Roddenberry Archive. This is an archive dedicated to preserving the legacy of Gene Roddenberry, who created Star Trek.
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin, who reflects on what he was doing 10 years ago, which was just after his VFX Oscar win for Interstellar. We dive into the scientific research, the CG and the miniatures side of that film. There’s a whole lot of fun anecdotes I had never heard about before. This is a special ep of the podcast that was originally recorded for Hugo Guerra’s 10th anniversary Hugo’s Desk stream.
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'The Umbrella Academy' production VFX supervisor Everett Burrell about the final episode ‘End of The Beginning’ and the impressive creatures.
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VFX producer Lynzi Grant to help demystify the role of a visual effects producer. Lynzi has worked on such films as Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Hocus Pocus 2, Spiderhead and Extraction.
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Lilo & Stitch' visual effects supervisor Craig Hammack, from ILM, about stuffies, stand-ins, CG animation and all the challenges of making the live-action film.
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.'
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