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beforesmag has been a member of Linktree for 3 years and joined in March 2023. The social media accounts linked to from beforesmag are: • Facebook • Instagram • YouTube • LinkedIn • Patreon • X Besides social media accounts, beforesmag has populated their site with: • PRINT MAG! issue #21 - virtual production • Issue #14 - VFX tools - befores & afters • befores & afters Patreon • 'Oppenheimer' special effects supervisor Scott Fisher on what the Trinity Test explosions in the film were made of - befores & afters • Hand-made paintings and sculpted maquettes were part of the VFX creation process on ‘Dial of Destiny’ - befores & afters • Behind the invisible effects of 'The Instigators' - befores & afters • It's here! Our VFX Notes ep on 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' - befores & afters • ‘It's like a constantly evolving three-dimensional puzzle’ - befores & afters • The crazy, intricate work behind DNEG's VFX for 'NYAD' - befores & afters • 'House of the Dragon' s2: befores and afters with Rodeo FX - befores & afters • Miniatures, animatronics and even oil paintings were part of the effects of ‘Time Bandits’ - befores & afters • A rare look behind the scenes of how a Marvel VFX shot goes through comp to final - befores & afters • Motion bases, mo-co cameras and monofilament wires - befores & afters • Watch Cinesite's VFX breakdown for 'The Union' - befores & afters • A whole bunch of professional photogrammetry equipment is up for sale - befores & afters • How Wētā FX made that 5400 frame Vermithor dragon oner in 'House of the Dragon' - befores & afters • Watch this FX sims breakdown from 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' - befores & afters • Take a 360 degree tour of the 'Borderlands' set - befores & afters • Lightcraft Jetset Opens Creative Doors for Andyax with Sub-Pixel Tracking Refinement - befores & afters • '3 Body Problem' Concept Artist: 5 Reasons Character Creator Reigns in Previs - befores & afters • Behind the scenes of 'Terminator Zero' - befores & afters • 'Alien: Romulus' director Fede Álvarez and 'Fallout' director Jonah Nolan will be at VIEW - befores & afters • A look at the state of play of virtual production with Jim Geduldick - befores & afters • Those crazy 'Beetlejuice' face transformations | befores & afters • How Cassandra Nova put her fingers through people's faces - befores & afters • See MPC's VFX breakdown for s4 of 'The Boys' - befores & afters • Watch this new 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' VFX featurette - befores & afters • The state of play in VFX employment right now - befores & afters • Watch Rodeo FX's VFX breakdown for 'House of the Dragon', s2 - befores & afters • Exclusive: Alec Gillis is speaking at VIEW Conference on practical effects and 'Alien: Romulus' - befores & afters • Watch MPC's 'Dark Matter' VFX breakdown - befores & afters • The VFX of ‘Eric’: crafting 1980s New York City environments, and a novel approach to 1980s screen replacements - befores & afters • Practical effects, creatures, animatronics and miniatures in 'Alien: Romulus' - befores & afters • VFX supervisor Stephan Fleet on the latest mayhem he helped orchestrate for ‘The Boys’ - befores & afters • Watch EDI’s breakdown reel for ‘Ripley’ - befores & afters • Inside the intricate worlds of ‘Dark Matter’ - befores & afters • Behind the scenes of the s2 ‘House of the Dragon’ finale - befores & afters • Go behind the scenes of ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ - befores & afters • CopyCat Masterclass Email Course • This featurette breaks down the Stowaway scene from ‘Furiosa’ - befores & afters • Riding dragons in latest ‘House of the Dragon’ featurette - befores & afters • A fine line between grotesque and hilarious: making ‘The Mask’s’ landmark nightclub transformations - befores & afters • Celebrating the CG legacy of ‘The Last Starfighter’ - befores & afters • ‘The sooner you kill me, the happier I’ll be’: a VFX oral history of Samuel L. Jackson’s shocking ‘Deep Blue Sea’ departure - befores & afters • Behind the scenes of ‘Those About to Die’ - befores & afters • Behind the VFX of ‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1’ - befores & afters • The VFX challenges of ‘Challengers’ - befores & afters • ‘I’ve got a feeling Alex has always had that shot in his head’ - befores & afters • All about the motion base mechs in the Jennifer Lopez film, ‘Atlas’ - befores & afters • Holey moley we just got a ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ documentary with shot setup re-creations from OTOY - befores & afters • ‘We did multiple simulations of what that would actually do to someone. It was horrific.’ - befores & afters • The machine learning tech behind Digital Domain’s in-house facial capture tool Masquerade3 - befores & afters • SFX, stuffies and fire in ‘House of the Dragon’ - befores & afters • See one of the miniature ships from ‘Alien: Romulus’ - befores & afters • RIZOMUV - UV Mapping 3D Software - RIZOM-LAB • Learn the untold stories of the effects for ‘Twister’ - befores & afters • Maximizing Nuke’s CopyCat machine learning tool - befores & afters • Celebrating 30 years of 'True Lies' | befores & afters • Behind the scenes of the VFX of ‘Manhunt’, with Zoic Studios - befores & afters • Watch this stuntvis for the ice skating scene in ‘Argylle’ - befores & afters • There's a brand new tier at the befores & afters Patreon... | befores & afters • The latest ‘House of the Dragon’ behind the scenes featurette is here - befores & afters • ‘Twister’ featurette released with SFX supe John Frazier and ILM’s VFX supe Stefen Fangmeier - befores & afters • The Last Starfighter is celebrating its 40th anniversary soon! | befores & afters • Getting inside the mind of your CG character - befores & afters • InstaMAT provides alternative to Substance 3D tools for texturing, and material and asset creation - befores & afters • Behind the tests, on-set shoot and CG animation of the characters in ‘IF’ - befores & afters • Official ‘House of the Dragon’ featurette breaks down the robot camera used this season - befores & afters • Erasing Lieutenant Dan’s legs, from the point of view of a digital artist on ‘Forrest Gump’ - befores & afters • How a tracking algorithm helped insert Tom Hanks into news scenes with historical figures in ‘Forrest Gump’ - befores & afters • Check out this stuntvis for the kitchen fight in ‘Knuckles’ - befores & afters • Comparing the Top 5 3D Scanner Apps - befores & afters • VFX supe Mike Fink chats ‘Blade Runner’ props, ‘Batman Returns’ mattes and miniatures, and the lost shots of ‘Golden Compass’ - befores & afters • Inside the visual effects of ‘Inside Out 2’ - befores & afters • Go behind the scenes of a dragon chase in ‘House of the Dragon’ • VFX Futures: VFX supervisor Scott Stokdyk looks back on the digital human breakthroughs in ‘Spider-Man 2’ • ‘The build was similar to an ape with a lizard squished inside of it’ • Here’s how Will Smith and Martin Lawrence took on a giant albino alligator in ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ • See Crafty Apes’ VFX for ‘Unfrosted’ • How Death, the talking macaw, was brought to life in ‘Tuesday’ • Making young Furiosa • See Whiskytree’s VFX breakdown for ‘Masters of the Air’ • The VFX you might have missed in ‘The First Omen’ • How the action was previs’d in ‘Furiosa’ • How those nuclear explosions were made for ‘Fallout’ • Re-visit the CG of 1994’s ‘Lion King’ • The VFX of ‘Fallout’: shooting on an LED volume on film, crafting one-eyed digital humans, mixing practical and digital, and more • RizomUV 2024: Biggest upgrade since 2018 • SFX supervisor Brian Johnson discusses ‘Thunderbirds’, ‘Star Wars’, ‘Space: 1999’ and more • How on set LiDAR scanning works • Fallout VFX breakdown • Learn about lens profiling in VFX, and more - befores & afters • Check out Cause and FX's VFX breakdown for 'Star Trek: Discovery' s5 - befores & afters • 'Tarzan' turns 25 - a look back at Deep Canvas | befores & afters • How multiple Robert Downey Jr.'s appeared on screen in 'The Sympathizer' - befores & afters • The impressive array of seamless VFX shots in 'Ripley' - befores & afters • The creatures of 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' - befores & afters • John Bruno on the original Slimer and optical compositing from 'Ghostbusters' | befores & afters • ‘Wouldn't it be rad if we had fingers inside the mouth?’ - befores & afters • Watch these amazing invisible effects crafted for the boat scene in 'Ripley' - befores & afters • New video shows how the puppet Eric was made for Benedict Cumberbatch film - befores & afters • Watch MPC's VFX breakdown for 'Sous La Seine' - befores & afters • Maximize Redshift Rendering in Cinema 4D with iRender Farm’s 8x RTX 4090 Beast - befores & afters • ‘We asked ourselves at the beginning, do we go for something that feels right, or that is right?’ - befores & afters • Miniatures, puppets, lightsabers and Purrgils - befores & afters • 'Speed' is 30, and VFX Notes is 3! Come celebrate with us! - befores & afters • Go behind the scenes of this full-length CG anime from HaZ Dulull - befores & afters • Creatures, battles, environments - the big VFX in 'Halo The Series' s2 - befores & afters • The VFX of ‘Fallout’: shooting on an LED volume on film, crafting one-eyed digital humans, mixing practical and digital, and more - befores & afters • Stefen Fangmeier on the big '3 Body Problem' VFX moments - befores & afters • Watch this official VFX reel from 'The Crown' s6 - befores & afters • All about time slipping and spaghettification in 'Loki' s2 - befores & afters • Breaking down the VFX in 'Discovery' and 'Strange New Worlds' - befores & afters • Godzilla Minus One Archives - befores & afters • See VFX breakdowns in this new 'Atlas' featurette - befores & afters • How they made that flyaway balloon scene in 'Bridgerton' - befores & afters • How to put Adam Sandler in space talking to a spider alien • See Eyeline Studios' volumetric capture rig in action for 'One Piece' - befores & afters • Walt Disney Animation Studio Filmmaking Process • Snakes, trains and paintovers - befores & afters • Check out this VFX breakdown for 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' - befores & afters • I think this was the coolest sequence from 'The Day After Tomorrow' - befores & afters • Yep, there's a whole lot of VFX in Jerry Seinfeld's 'Unfrosted' - befores & afters • The art of shooting array plates - befores & afters • Look back at Framestore's VFX for 'Gravity' in this new video - befores & afters • befores & afters website • befores & afters magazines at Amazon • befores & afters on Twitter • befores & afters on Instagram • befores & afters on Facebook • Ian Failes on LinkedIn