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How one animatronics designer and puppeteer has made his way into the world of Star Wars, Dark Crystal and more. A new excerpt from issue #7 of befores & afters magazine. Javier Coronilla was studying mechanical...

An animator’s perspective (and a special bonus excerpt from befores & afters magazine). It took 30 years to make, and it’s hard to describe, but Phil Tippett’s MAD GOD is truly unlike almost anything people...

This month: * Command & Conquer * How-To : Python, Blender and Latex * Graphics : Inkscape * Everyday Ubuntu : Morrowind * Micro This Micro That * Review : Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 * Review : NixOS * Book Review :...

The latest issue of befores & afters magazine has arrived! Holy cow, befores & afters magazine is up to issue #7 already! And this issue is, as always, jam-packed with some in-depth coverage of all things...

Online Content Use the following resources to put your ideas from this issue of Modern Ontrapreneur into action. Build your own web apps with Dynamic CMS Feeling inspired after reading “What is a web app?” on page...

Animator Angus Lamont reveals how he crafted a giant monster attack in his makeshift garage/studio. When Glasgow model maker, stop motion animator and special effects artist Angus Lamont was asked to showcase his...

‘The Bubble’ had some slightly unusual visual effects requirements to help deliver its tongue-in-cheek tale. The premise of Judd Apatow’s The Bubble revolves around a group of actors trying to make a film while...

A breakdown of Father John Misty’s single ‘Funny Girl’. Music videos can be fascinating visual effects projects. They often provide creators with a chance to do something very different with VFX, away from the...

How Blinkink had to solve some interesting previs, stop-motion and 3D printing challenges for the promo. ‘Extreme by Nature’, a spot for the BBC Winter Olympics coverage, begins with a view of an ice cube. Inside,...

120 pages of visual effects stories in print. I’m excited to announce that issue #6 of befores & afters magazine is now out and already available over at Amazon. That’s the US store, but it’s also here: UK —...

This month: * Command & Conquer * How-To : Bash to Python, Migrating from VAX/VMS and Latex * Graphics : Inkscape * Everyday Ubuntu: Diagramming with Dia * Review : Xubuntu 22.04 * Review : Void Linux * Ubuntu...

How One of Us crafted the opening brasserie and Hogwarts Great Hall environments. Owing to several reasons, including COVID restrictions, a number of planned filming locations on David Yates’ Fantastic Beasts: The...

An excerpt from issue #5 of befores & afters magazine. In order to properly tell the story of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team from the late 1970s into the 1980s, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty...

An excerpt from the ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ article in issue #5 of befores & afters mag. Issue #5 of befores & afters magazine is chock-full of invisible effects coverage, including about the VFX...

From ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ to ‘Our Flag Means Death’. Big news! You can now get your hands on issue #5 of befores & afters magazine. Find it at Amazon US (or see further down below for direct...

This month: * Command & Conquer * How-To : Python, Blender and Latex * Graphics : Inkscape * Review : Lubuntu 22.04 * Review : Slitaz 5 * Book Review : The Recursive Book of Recursion * Ubuntu Games :...

This month: * Command & Conquer * How-To : Python, Blender and Latex * Graphics : Inkscape * Everyday Ubuntu : Ubuntu Software Centre * Micro This Micro That * Review : Kubuntu 22.04 * Review : Fedora 35 * Review...