How The Roddenberry Archive is preserving ‘Star Trek’ history
Release Date: 09/29/2025
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.
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How The Roddenberry Archive is preserving ‘Star Trek’ history
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Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Mark Spatny, now VFX supervisor and VAD supervisor at OTOY, about his work at The Roddenberry Archive. This is an archive dedicated to preserving the legacy of Gene Roddenberry, who created Star Trek.
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Paul Franklin reflects on the VFX of ‘Interstellar’
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Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin, who reflects on what he was doing 10 years ago, which was just after his VFX Oscar win for Interstellar. We dive into the scientific research, the CG and the miniatures side of that film. There’s a whole lot of fun anecdotes I had never heard about before. This is a special ep of the podcast that was originally recorded for Hugo Guerra’s 10th anniversary Hugo’s Desk stream.
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Behind that crazy creature work in the finale of 'The Umbrella Academy'
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Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'The Umbrella Academy' production VFX supervisor Everett Burrell about the final episode ‘End of The Beginning’ and the impressive creatures.
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What exactly does the role of a visual effects producer involve?
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Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to VFX producer Lynzi Grant to help demystify the role of a visual effects producer. Lynzi has worked on such films as Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Hocus Pocus 2, Spiderhead and Extraction.
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How they made the new 'Lilo & Stitch'
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Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to 'Lilo & Stitch' visual effects supervisor Craig Hammack, from ILM, about stuffies, stand-ins, CG animation and all the challenges of making the live-action film.
info_outlineIan Failes from befores & afters chats to Mark Spatny, now VFX supervisor and VAD supervisor at OTOY, about his work at The Roddenberry Archive. This is an archive dedicated to preserving the legacy of Gene Roddenberry, who created Star Trek.