The latest issue of the print magazine looks at on set visual effects on projects like The Creator, Fargo, Spaceman, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and Napoleon. Issue #17 of befores & afters magazine is out! It looks at on set visual effects with several on set VFX supervisors and with companies doing LiDAR scanning and camera array shooting. Go deep on the on set challenges of making ‘The Creator’. Here’s a look at what’s inside the 80 pages of this issue: Start with our cover feature on Gareth Edwards’ The Creator and Industrial Light & Magic on set visual ..read more

Actor and animator. Interviews by Ian Failes. In the Star Wars prequels, actor Ahmed Best portrayed Jar Jar Binks, beginning with Episode I—The Phantom Menace (1999), providing both an on-set and motion captured performance and the character’s distinctive voice. Rob Coleman was Industrial Light & Magic’s animation director on the prequels, overseeing the transformation of Best’s performance into a fully photoreal computer-generated main character, often considered the first of its kind in live-action film history. When Episode I was released, the backlash against Jar Jar Binks came swi ..read more

DNEG delves into its sequences on ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,’ which also included Kong’s tooth extraction, and the enormous crystal pyramid. DNEG took on several demanding sequences in Adam Wingard’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Among them was the opening battle between Godzilla and Charybdis in Rome, along with Godzilla’s restful sequences inside the Colosseum. The studio also delivered a scene of King having his tooth extracted and replaced, and they showcased a biological veil hiding a gigantic crystal pyramid environment, as well as a wealth of creatures inside Hollow Earth ..read more

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Plus, crafting Wart-Dogs, Kong’s arm brace and that Rio fight. Adam Wingard’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire contains a wealth of stunning sequences. All this week at befores & afters, we’ll be diving into different shots and scenes crafted by several of the vendors on the film. We start with Scanline VFX, which took on many huge moments, including the introduction cold open scene with Kong and the Wart-Dogs, Kong’s confrontation with Godzilla in Cairo and the final huge Rio battle. Here, visual effects supervisor Nick Crew and animation supervisor Eric Petey break those particular sc ..read more

Plus, the sewer dragon, proton beams, Mini-Pufts, the art of transparency, and freezing the world. When visual effects supervisor Geoffrey Baumann came on board Gil Kenan’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, one of the earliest conversations he had with the director was about resurrecting the audience favorite character Slimer from the 1984 movie–in a very 1984 way. “There was a strong desire for Slimer to be a puppet,” says Baumann. “Arjen Tuiten, our creature designer, helped manufacture Slimer with the original mold from the ’84 film. It was based off of the original Slimer puppet, and the desi ..read more

Delivering new ghosts, with an old-school feel. This week on the befores & afters podcast, we’re talking Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire with Imageworks visual effects supervisor Jason Greenblum. Jason worked with production VFX supe Geoffrey Baumann, who’s also the subject of a written article here. Jason goes into detail about several of the characters and scenes Imageworks crafted for the film, including Slimer, the sewer ghost, Melody, Garaka, and those Mini-Pufts. I really enjoyed hearing about the translation of a 1984 sensibility, that is, from the original Ghostbusters, to this new ..read more

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