
How Framestore helped make the creatures and cinematography of 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age' feel so real
07/1/2026 | 39min
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 | 28min
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 | 58min
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 | 52min
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.

Infinite Realities on the path to 4G gaussian splatting in digital human capture
18/11/2025 | 1h 16min
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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