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Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to 'Gladiator' visual effects supervisor John Nelson about the original film from 2000, including that very famous Steadicam shot of the Gladiators entering the Colosseum, the Rome builds, the amazing tiger fight, and the forest battle in Germania.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' visual effects supervisor Angus Bickerton, and to Ian Mackinnon, stop motion supervising producer, and Chris Tichborne, animation supervisor -- covering sandworms, the plane crash and more!

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Erik Henry about the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, including the use of ILM StageCraft, and the creation of many CG creatures.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Urban Bradeško, founder of DoubleJump Academy, about launching a VFX training company and what it took to get there.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Matt Estela about Houdini, CG Wiki and his path from VFX into...a different world.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Longlegs' visual effects supervisor Edward Douglas about the horror film and some VFX you might not have noticed.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Joseph Bell, who has collated data on the world’s largest VFX hubs and VFX studios, the global distribution of VFX skill sets and more in his Visual Effects World Atlas.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Dark Matter' visual effects supervisor John Heller about crafting the different versions of Chicago in the show.

Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to DOP Eric Adkins on the 20th anniversary of 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow', a film that was almost entirely shot on bluescreen.

Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to visual effects supervisor Mark Russell about the Doug Liman film The Instigators, and its mix of car chases, explosions and even addition of water onto actors.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Wētā FX visual effects supervisor Wayne Stables about his studio’s work on season 2 of 'House of the Dragon'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to artist Jakub Kaźmierczak about his concepts and environment previsualization and the Reallusion tools he used for the Netflix series '3 Body Problem'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VIEW Conference's Maria Elena Gutierrez about what to expect at this year's event, including the just announced presence of Alien: Romulus director Fede Álvarez.

Ian Failes chats to virtual production supervisor and visual effects supervisor Jim Geduldick about the state of play in all things VP, including LED walls, on-set work and the future landscape with machine learning and AI.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VFX recruiter Simon Davies, from Digital Arts Xchange, about the current challenging visual effects and anmation employment environment. Simon shares some advice for artists right now looking to get back into the industry, and about getting a VFX job generally.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Stephan Fleet about season 4 of 'The Boys.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Jim Rygiel about his time at Digital Productions on 'The Last Starfighter', which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, and still resonates as a groundbreaking achievement in CG and VFX to this day.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Digital Domain CTO Hanno Basse about Masquerade3, the latest incarnation of DD's in-house facial capture tool.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Lindy De Quattro about Brad Peyton’s 'Atlas'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VFX supervisor Chris Lawrence and animation supervisor Arslan Elver about their work on director John Krasinski’s 'IF'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Pixar visual effects supervisor Sudeep Rangaswamy about 'Inside Out 2', including about new character rigging and particle approaches, using RenderMan, simulating that crazy memory orb avalanche, and more.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to RISE visual effects supervisor Andreas Giesen about the Amazon Prime Video series, 'Fallout', including that opening nuclear set of explosions.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Chad Wanstreet, the visual effects supervisor on HBO’s 'The Sympathizer' about the crazy private lounge scene that features multiple characters played by Robert Downey Jr., with impressive face replacement work, plus many other scenes in the series.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Ripley' visual effects producer Joseph Servodio and visual effects supervisor John Bowers about the 'murder boat' scene, environments and *that* wig.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Industrial Light & Magic visual effects supervisor Richard Bluff about 'Ahsoka.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to HaZ Dulull, co-founder of HaZimation and the director of the indie CG animated feature 'MAX BEYOND.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Jabbar Ray Saaknee Raisani (who is an Executive Producer, Director & VFX Supervisor on the show), and Marion Spates (a VFX Supervisor on Airbender) about Appa, Momo, the badger mole and the ostrich horse.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Oliver Cubbage about the Hulu series, 'We Were the Lucky Ones.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Wojciech Zielinski about season 2 of Halo The Series. We discuss lots of different aspects of the VFX work, including shooting the battles, carrying out on set stunts, delivering creatures and also environments.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves' visual effects supervisor Jon Massey about the set extensions, Civil War scenes and more in the show.

Ian Failes chats to Marvel visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend about season 2 of 'Loki'. In particular we jump into all aspects of time slipping, spaghettification, the loom and the invisible visual effects in this season.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to lead visual effects supervisor Jason Zimmerman about two Star Trek shows: season 2 of Strange New Worlds and season 5 of Discovery. For Strange New Worlds, we dive into the creature effects for the Gorn. Then for Discovery, we start with the amazing sand runner sequence, the Itrinok creatures and the Breen ship.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to '3 Body Problem' visual effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier about the Netflix series, including about ship slicing, the VR game, dehydration of bodies, and that chrome VR headset.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Framestore visual effects supervisor Josh Simmonds about the Adam Driver film, '65'. We get into the ‘role’ of VFX in helping to craft a story.

Ian Failes chats to Chris Nichols, director of special projects at the Chaos Innovation Lab, about Chaos’ Project Arena. This is an upcoming toolset that lets artists move V-Ray assets and animations to LED walls.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to director and VFX artist Adrian Bobb about making his short film 'The Fore-Men'. 

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Imageworks visual effects supervisor Jason Greenblum about 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor and Disney Imagineer Tim Landry, looking back at this experience at Dream Quest Images, including on 'The Crow', and later at Walt Disney Imagineering. 

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Paul Katte from Make-up Effects Group about 'The Matrix' and his team's practical effects for the pod baby, the bug effects for Keanu's torso and an arm break effect.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Alessandro Ongaro, the visual effects supervisor 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire', about prep'ing the huge film, the extensive previs, traveling to multiple locations for shoots and reference, and how specific scenes were crafted.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Yeti creator Colin Doncaster about his career in VFX and software development via his company Peregrine Labs.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Bruce Hunt, second unit director on 'The Matrix' about the helicopter rescue and crash, involving real stunt photography over Sydney, and the miniature greenscreen chopper explosion shoot as well.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to FMX project manager Mario Müller about this year's VFX and animation event happening in Stuttgart in April. 

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Ryo Sakaguchi, the production visual effects supervisor for the Japanese Netflix series 'YuYu Hakusho', about new volumetric capture tech from Eyeline Studios used on the show.

Ian Failes chats to stunt coordinator and second unit director Wayne Dalglish, and to action designer and stunt previs artist Christopher Clements, both from Sandbox Action Design, about that spaceship hallway oner in 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3', which was the set to the tune of the Beastie Boys No Sleep til Brooklyn.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to REALTIME visual effects supervisor James Coore to discuss the 60th anniversary Doctor Who special ‘Wild Blue Yonder’.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Framestore visual effects supervisor Bob Winter about his studio’s work for 'Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire'. This included the bird-like creature the Bennu, which is at one point ridden by the character Tarak. Plus we compare that with the creature Harmada.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to the managing partners of Dream Machine FX--Brendan Taylor from Mavericks, Brian Drewes from Zero  and Chris Spry from Fin--about the way their collective works.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Screecher’s Reach' director Paul Young and art director Almu Redondo about the 'Star Wars Visions' animated short.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to the VFX Oscar nominated team behind the visual effects of Ridley Scott’s 'Napoleon': production VFX supervisor Charley Henley, MPC VFX supe Luc-ewen Martin-fenouille, ILM VFX supe Simone Coco and special effects supervisor Neil Corbould.