
Behind the role of a VFX coordinator
Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VFX coordinator Cameron Target, who most recently worked on 'Moana'.

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Hosted by Ian Failes · 🇺🇸 US · EN-AU · 266 episodes
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The befores & afters VFX podcast from journalist Ian Failes, covering the latest in visual effects, animation and virtual production.
Ian Failes hosts befores & afters, a tv show with 266 episodes published.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VFX coordinator Cameron Target, who most recently worked on 'Moana'.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Betsy Paterson about the making of 'Stranger Things 5.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Apex' visual effects supervisor Enrik Pavdeja.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats with two Framestore artisans on The Sheep Detectives: visual effects supervisor Graham Page and chief creative officer (and second unit supervisor for the film) Tim Webber.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to production visual effects supervisor Brian Drewes about the visual effects in 'Widow's Bay'.

Ian Failes from befores and afters chats to ILM compositing supervisor Todd Vaziri, who via his VFXHQ.com website in the late 90s kickstarted Ian's career in VFX journalism.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to ILM Executive Creative Director John Knoll about the advent of digital VFX tech at ILM, and then goes in-depth on the maelstrom in the third Pirates of the Caribbean film.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to ILM creative director David Vickery about his experience combining practical and digital dinos on recent Jurassic World films.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Cary Phillips, who is Director, R&D Engineering Architect at ILM, about the development of Cari for 'Dragonheart.'

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' visual effects supervisor Jason Zimmerman about virtual production, digital characters, space scenes and motion graphics.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Sheena Duggal, and VFX supervisor and virtual production supervisor Jim Geduldick, about the newly released VES On-Set VFX Data Collection and Usage Gui

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Ted' s2 visual effects supervisors Hoyt Yeatman and Blair Clark about the creation of the main character, and the deepfake work that went into the appearance of Bill Clinton.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to ILM's Ben Snow and Hayden Landis on the 25th anniversary of 'Pearl Harbor', looking back at key ILM innovations, including ambient occlusion, from the film.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Tara DeMarco about 'The Boroughs', and the creature, environment, TV distortion effects and other VFX in the Netflix show.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Murderbot' production visual effects supervisor Sean Faden.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to production visual effects supervisor John Haley about 'Wonder Man', including on the use of forced perspective miniatures.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Marty Supreme' visual effects supervisor Eran Dinur about crafting the ping pong match VFX in the film.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Remarkably Bright Creatures' visual effects supervisor Chris Ritvo about Untold Studios' delightful octopus in the film and how it was made.

Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to 'Man on Fire' visual effects supervisor Kevin Lingenfelser about the residential tower destruction, the lear jet sequence and that signature 'man on fire' moment with the main ch

Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to the Sony Pictures Imageworks recipients about their Scientific and Technical Award stemming from stylized and artistic innovations on the 'Spider-Verse' films.
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