Issue #57 of befores & afters magazine takes an in-depth look at the visual effects behind IT: Welcome to Derry, HBO's prequel series set in a 1960s Derry, Maine and developed b...
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Advances in image, video, and audio generation tools have made AI-generated social media influencers increasingly difficult to spot, blurring the line between virtual avatars an...
Director Boots Riley publicly challenged Martin Scorsese's decision to join AI image-generation company Black Forest Labs as an advisor, speculating on social media that Scorses...
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The Eye Midge — classified in-universe as Trypanohyncha Ocellus — is one of the standout creatures in Alien: Earth, and its creation required an intricate blend of practical and...
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Visual effects supervisors Hoyt Yeatman and Blair Clark join the befores & afters podcast to break down the making of Ted season 2. They walk through the full pipeline for shoot...
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Speaking at the AI on the Lot conference, director Paul Schrader argued that AI's true commercial potential in film lies not in enhanced VFX or monsters, but in the creation of ...
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Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. told The Verge's Nilay Patel that AI tools have become a fixture in virtually every music production session he participates in. The remar...
Vertical drama operates on a production economy unlike anything in traditional TV or film. The $11B industry — led by platforms like ReelShort, DramaBox, MyDrama, and studios in...
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David Johnson-Igra, a ghostwriter who built his career crafting content for executives at Amazon, a16z, Meta, GitHub, and OpenAI, lost every one of his clients within weeks of A...
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ReelShort and DramaBox together command roughly 70% of global short-drama in-app purchase revenue — a market that hit $2.98 billion in 2025, up 115% year-over-year. To viewers, ...
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