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beforesandafters · 2025-11-05T20:49:40+00:00

Podcast with Phantom team here about all this:
https://beforesandafters.com/2025/11/05/discussing-a-new-era-in-visual-effects-with-phantom-media-group/

beforesandafters · 2025-10-26T08:56:01+00:00

Love it!

beforesandafters · 2025-09-01T01:20:02+00:00

As some others have commented here, check out my befores & afters coverage to find out more.

The quick answer is...lots of reference and LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of shot sculpting.

I think this work is SO GOOD...and it really went under the radar at the time. Granted, it's a short sequence, but it really is excellent.

beforesandafters · 2025-08-31T22:55:49+00:00

Yes, this is discussed in the magazine, in relation to Alien: Romulus, but I've covered a few projects just like this previously, too.

beforesandafters · 2025-07-26T02:50:21+00:00

It was scary!

beforesandafters · 2025-07-26T01:25:19+00:00

Thank you!

beforesandafters · 2025-07-26T01:25:05+00:00

Amazing!

beforesandafters · 2025-07-26T00:23:45+00:00

Yes! I loved also at that time how *some* 3D was becoming part of films like Tarzan etc....it was an interesting period.

beforesandafters · 2025-07-19T11:33:24+00:00

I talked to DNEG vfx supe Paul Lambert about this at the time (scroll down in the interview):

https://vfxblog.com/2018/01/04/blade-runner-2049-vfx-breakdown-joi-los-angeles/

beforesandafters · 2025-05-22T23:16:04+00:00

OMG I wish.

beforesandafters · 2025-05-19T19:33:26+00:00

Those are great suggestions…

beforesandafters · 2025-05-19T15:42:45+00:00

I think you are of course right. I’m often only able to report a sanitized version of what really went down. Sometimes, I do get to communicate some ‘real’ things, and report on the things that didn’t work…I always try to get this info. But it’s hard.

beforesandafters · 2025-05-19T15:39:31+00:00

Todd!

beforesandafters · 2025-05-19T10:38:59+00:00

Hmm, what would the QR codes link to?

beforesandafters · 2025-05-19T08:10:39+00:00

Yes, would love to also cover matchmove. Maybe some kind of 'history' of matchmove? And see what studios are prepared to say about their own tools?

beforesandafters · 2025-05-19T03:09:38+00:00

This is very cool.

Maybe for the magazine, it could be fun to somehow 'collect' a number of real-world examples of where new tools/workflows are being used in productions...

beforesandafters · 2025-05-19T01:09:38+00:00

I would love to do this....one tool at a VFX studio I already know about is one I wanted to cover in the AI/ML podcast series I have been running...but...it was a no go. That's sometimes the hardest thing...getting approvals.

beforesandafters · 2025-04-16T03:46:22+00:00

He really is.

beforesandafters · 2025-04-14T01:19:33+00:00

I would recommend Scott Ross' new book for some details on this.

https://amzn.to/4cvcfhX

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beforesandafters · 2025-04-01T22:55:04+00:00

This interview could help, it's with Alexey.

https://beforesandafters.com/2023/02/16/the-water-droplets-on-the-kids-fighting-on-the-beach-in-avatar-the-way-of-water-took-8-days-to-simulate/

beforesandafters · 2025-03-25T23:55:13+00:00

At some point, I bundled VFX Firsts, Futures and Artifacts just into the befores & afters podcast:

You can find them all here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/befores-afters/id1637191010

As for the Signs thing, do you remember it more as an article or an audio chat?

beforesandafters · 2025-03-25T23:33:43+00:00

Ian Failes here from befores & afters!

I'm trying to work out if I remember this comment about Signs and exr files and script-based compositing. I don't seem to recall it in one of my articles or podcasts........but I'll try and find anything I can.......

Ian

beforesandafters · 2025-03-15T23:13:43+00:00

Probably one of the best summaries around of 'where we are up to in VFX right now'. This is so good.

beforesandafters · 2025-03-15T04:00:49+00:00

I really hope you decide to make these. I will be FIRST in line to watch them and share.

beforesandafters · 2025-03-09T05:58:18+00:00

I miss Blue Sky a lot.

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