How on-set scanning of environments and actor capture works
20/1/2026 | 38 min
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats with Clear Angle Studios US Head of Capture, Brian LaBrec, about photogrammetry booths, LiDAR scans and other capture on big projects.
How Framestore helped make the creatures and cinematography of 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age' feel so real
07/1/2026 | 39 min
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Framestore and production side visual effects supervisor Russell Dodgson about the Apple TV+ and BBC Studios Natural History Unit series 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age.'
Phil Tippett updates us on the state of his personal projects, and his view on AI
09/12/2025 | 28 min
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Phil Tippett about a couple of projects he has in the works - including what could be a follow-up to MAD GOD, ie. MAD GOD 2. There's also Pequin's Pendequin, and the Sentinel feature Tippett Studio already crafted a test for. Plus Tippett shares his candid thoughts about AI (they may not be what you think).
What it's like to run a visual effects studio in China
01/12/2025 | 58 min
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Base FX founder and CEO Chris Bremble about operating a VFX studio for 20 years from China.
The painterly art and tech behind stop-motion animated 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls'
24/11/2025 | 52 min
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls' filmmakers Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski and Éric Pouliot about the making of this stop-motion animated film.