The surprising use of visual effects in season 6 of 'The Handmaid’s Tale'
Release Date: 06/16/2025
How on-set scanning of environments and actor capture works
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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.
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How Framestore helped make the creatures and cinematography of 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age' feel so real
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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.'
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Phil Tippett updates us on the state of his personal projects, and his view on AI
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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).
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What it's like to run a visual effects studio in China
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Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Base FX founder and CEO Chris Bremble about operating a VFX studio for 20 years from China.
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The painterly art and tech behind stop-motion animated ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’
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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.
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Infinite Realities on the path to 4G gaussian splatting in digital human capture
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Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Infinite Realities' Lee Perry-Smith and Henry Pearce about the company’s journey into the world of scanning, photogrammetry, videogrammetry and now 4D gaussian splats, including for the holograms in 'Superman.'
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Saint Walker on the new Core Skills of VFX Handbook 2025
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Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Saint Walker, who is the collator of The Core Skills of VFX Handbook 2025.
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Discussing a new era in visual effects with Phantom Media Group
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In this special sponsored episode, Ian Failes from befores & afters talks to the leadership from Phantom Media Group, or PMG, which now includes PhantomFX, Spectre, Tippett Studio, Milk VFX and Lola Post.
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The art and tech behind the body morphing in 'Together'
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Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Framestore visual effects supervisor Josh Simmonds about the Michael Shanks film, 'Together', diving into Framestore’s body morphing work for the main characters played by Allison Brie and Dave Franco.
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What the role of CTO involves at Wētā FX
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Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Wētā FX CTO Kimball Thurstan about being a CTO of the revered visual effects studio. We discuss a range of topics, including rendering, de-noising, data flows and…yes…AI.
info_outlineIan Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Brendan Taylor from Mavericks VFX and the VFX of season 6 of 'The Handmaid’s Tale', including the opening train scenes filmed with an LED wall, the wedding scene, which had an interesting object removal challenge, muzzle flash work, crowds, that dramatic plane explosion and the final Boston environment shots.