 | Behind the HUD of Ironman
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May 09, 2008 - We speak with Dav Rauch from The Orphanage. Rauch is a director, designer and visual effects supervisor who led the team that conceptualized and designed Ironman's Heads Up Display. |
| NAB2008: Day Two
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Apr 15, 2008 - Our annual roundtable from fxphd barcamp. We cover the announcements from RED, Eyeon, and more. |
| NAB2008: Day One
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Apr 14, 2008 - Coverage of the Autodesk Usergroup Meeting. Recorded Sunday evening before the start of NAB. |
| Getting the Most out of NAB 2008
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Apr 08, 2008 - We talk with organizers Chris Brown, Rochelle Winters, and Ben Kozuch about the off-the-showfloor highlights of the 2008 NAB Conference in Las Vegas. |
| Local Hero Post: Indie DI Heros
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Mar 31, 2008 - Owner Leandro Marini discusses the approach Local Hero has taken in providing a DI solution for the indie filmmaker, offering high quality at prices in line with their budgets. |
| What's Up with Imagineer's Mogul?
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Mar 28, 2008 - We speak with Imagineer founder and CEO Allan Jaenicke about their new mogul vfx product line, to be introduced at NAB and rolled out over the next 18 months. |
| Tim Baier on Stereoscopic 3D
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Mar 25, 2008 - Mike Seymour chats with Tim Baier, a vfx supervisor and 3D researcher who now specializes in 3D stereo productions, about the history, technology and trends in the field. |
| Madame Tutli Putli - The Eyes Have It
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Feb 13, 2008 - Mike Seymour talks with artist Jason Walker, who created the effects in the animated film Madame Tutlie Putli. |
| Gareth Edwards on the VFX of Attila the Hun
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Feb 04, 2008 - A conversation with Gareth Edwards, director of Attila the Hun, about how he completed over 250 visual effects shots for the film using a combination of After Effects, Premiere, MochaAE, 3dsMax, and more. |
| Weta Digital and The Water Horse
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Jan 19, 2008 - Richard Frances-Moore on Weta Digital's work on creating and animating the hero CGI character of "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep". |
| Aliens vs. Predator Requiem
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Dec 29, 2007 - Greg and Colin Strause (The Brothers Strause) discuss their feature film directorial debut, Aliens vs. Predator Requiem. Also a preview of the new fxphd term. |
| Strike a Deal
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Dec 10, 2007 - Mike Seymour and Jeff Heusser discuss the writer's strike and a rally in Hollywood encouraging both sides to come to a deal. |
| Tin Man (Our 100th Episode)
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Nov 30, 2007 - Tin Man, the modern twist on Wizard of Oz, required 1500 shots for 3 x 2hour miniseries. We talk to Anthem FX founder Lee Wilson the issues involved. It is also our 100th fxpodcast. |
| The WGA Strike: Post Perspective
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Nov 12, 2007 - In this week's podcast we talk with David S. Cohen of Variety to get a post production perspective on the effect of the Writers Guild strike. |
| The Art of Wire Removal
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Oct 27, 2007 - We speak with The Orphanage's Aaron Rhodes about approaches to wire removal, including complex 2D and 3D solutions. |
| Kerner Optical: The ex-ILM Model Shop
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Oct 08, 2007 - This week, we speak with longtime Kerner Optical DOP Marty Rosenberg about the company's past history and plans for the future. |
| RED Shoot One
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Sep 06, 2007 - The first fxguide test shoot with the newly released RED Camera is the topic of this podcast with Jeff Heusser and Mike Seymour. |
| Harry Potter: The Magic of Double Negative
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Aug 01, 2007 - This week, our guest is Paul Franklin from Double Negative, who discusses the facility's work on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. |
| Siggraph 2007
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Jul 16, 2007 - Get the inside scoop from Conference Chair Joe Marks on how to get the most out of the Siggraph 2007 conference in San Diego. |
| FF2 - Part 2 of our story on Fantastic Four
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Jul 09, 2007 - Mike Seymour interviews Jake Morrison, Visual Effects Supervisor for Hydraulx about Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. |
| Killer Schedules: Behind that Variety Story
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Jun 26, 2007 - Jeff Heusser speaks with David Cohen from Variety, author of the article "Blockbusters Take Toll on f/x Shops", about the role of vfx and death of post schedules. |
| Weta Surfers
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Jun 21, 2007 - Interview with Weta VFX Supervisor Eric Saindon about their work on Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. |
| A Look at Design with Picture Mill founder William Lebeda
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Jun 12, 2007 - Mike sits down for an indepth discussion on design issues, the role of titles and the nature of film trailer design with Picture Mill founder William Lebeda. |
| Heroic Vfx : Stargate Digital and NBC's Heroes
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May 29, 2007 - We speak with VFX Supervisor Mark Kolpack and Supervising Producer Mark Spatny about Stargate Digital's work on the NBC television series "Heroes", seen in the United States. |
| Shrek the Third: Ogreachievers
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May 21, 2007 - We speak with Larry Cutler and Matt Baer from PDI/Dreamworks about their work on the film, including their insights into how working on a series of films changes the workflow for the better. |
| Stu Maschwitz: DV Rebel with a Cause
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May 14, 2007 - This week, we speak with Stu Maschwitz, author of "The DV Rebel's Guide" and one of the co-founders of The Orphanage. |
| Framestore CFC : Digital Intermediate
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May 07, 2007 - This week, we speak with colourist Asa Shoul and Executive Producer Jan Hogevold of Framestore CFC |
| NAB Podcast Number Four
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Apr 21, 2007 - Wrap up of the week at NAB, including news from the Foundry about Nuke, the search for non-CRT broadcast monitors, After Effects CS3, and more |
| NAB Podcast Number Three
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Apr 21, 2007 - For today's podcast we invited various guests as well a fxphd professors and postgrads to join us in a sort of bar camp where everyone reports back on what they saw on the show floor and discusses. We then collected the best of this exercise and bring you the results. |
| NAB Podcast Number Two
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Apr 17, 2007 - Our second podcast from NAB, with guests Emery Wells and Scott Brook. We cover lots of items including Apple, Motor, the Red Camera, and a new joint venture between fxguide, Wells, and Brook. |
| Autodesk User Group and Party Podcast
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Apr 16, 2007 - "Live" interviews and commentary from the Autodesk user group party at NAB 2007 |
| fxguide state of the union
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Apr 16, 2007 - A roundtable with Mike, John, Tahl Niran, and Rose Draper about fxguide, fxphd, and what's coming at NAB |
| Red Update : Ted
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Mar 26, 2007 - We speak to Ted Schilowitz, Leader of the Rebellion at the RED Digital Cinema Company about NAB, RED CODE RAW, the various options you can buy for the camera. |
| A Conversation with Dan Curry
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Mar 21, 2007 - Dan Curry pioneered high volume, high quality episodic television visual effects and as a result has been nominated for a visual effects Emmy fifteen times and won seven times. |
| 300, Alien vs. Predator 2 and Hydraulx
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Mar 12, 2007 - We speak to Hydraulx co-founder Greg Strause about their amazing 3D work on 300 and his first impressions of Alien vs Predator 2, having just come off set from co-directing the film. |
| Comic Horrors: Rocks, Statues and VanDyke
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Mar 05, 2007 - We speak with Rainmaker's Bruce Woloshyn and The Orphanage's Kevin Baillie about their facilities' work on the film Night at the Museum. |
| Anticipating the Premiere of 300
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Feb 25, 2007 - Mike Seymour chats with Jeremy Hunt, founder of Screaming Death Monkey, about their work for the upcoming film 300. |
| ILM : Academy Sci-Tech Award Winners
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Feb 19, 2007 - We talk to Steve Sullivan, Director Of Research and Development for Industrial Light and Magic, about development of OpenEXR and their in-house image-based modeling tool. |
| On Set with Deaths of Ian Director Dario Piana
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Feb 12, 2007 - We speak on set with Director Dario Piana for an update on the production of the feature film Deaths of Ian. |
| Conversation with Director/VFX Artist Jon Hollis
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Feb 08, 2007 - This week we talk to legendary London FX artist and director Jon Hollis of Nice Shirt Films, who was a co-founder of Smoke and Mirrors. |
| A Conversation with Autodesk's New Systems Team
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Jan 31, 2007 - We speak with key individuals from the newly re-organized systems team in Montreal. They are involved in the development of Flame, Smoke, Lustre, Toxik and other applications. Bruno Sargeant, Jean-Luc Dery, Philippe Soeiro, Mark Jaszbereny, and Filippo Tampieri. |
| Letters from Iwo Jima : Digital Domain Delivers
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Jan 26, 2007 - We speak with Darren Poe and Jeff Kim about Digital Domain's work on Letters from Iwo Jima. |
| Children of Men : Hard Core Visual Effects
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Jan 04, 2007 - We speak with David Vickery of Double Negative and Tim Webber of Framestore CFC about their work on the film. |
| Charlotte's Web and Digital Pictures Illoura
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Dec 31, 2006 - We speak with Digital Pictures Illoura about their work on the recent animated film Charlotte's Webb. |
| On Set with the VFX Supervisor of The Deaths of Ian
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Dec 20, 2006 - We speak with the on-set vfx supervisor of The Deaths of Ian, Dennis Michelson. |
| Conversation with REALVIZ's Luc Robert
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Dec 10, 2006 - We chat with Luc Robert, co-founder of REALVIZ, about their recent release of Stitcher Unlimited DS. |
| First Ever AFI Visual Effects Award Goes to Hunt Angels
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Dec 07, 2006 - The first-ever Australian Film Institute awarded its first-ever Visual Effects Award to Rose Draper and Mike Seymour for their work on Hunt Angels. Seymour and Draper talk about their work on the film. |
| zyz studios Paint the Town Yellow
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Dec 07, 2006 - Mike Seymour talks with artists involved with the creation of a yellow pages tv commercial done at xyz studios. |
| Fincher's all digital feature: Zodiac
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Oct 24, 2006 - Andreas Wacker and Angus Wall discuss techniques developed for the first major motion picture produced without using compressed tape formats or film. |
| IBC Redux: Red, Blackmagic, Foundry, Gridiron and more
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Oct 02, 2006 - Podcast recapping IBC 2006, including sound bites from Ted Schilowitz and Graeme Natress of RED and Grant Petty of Blackmagic Design. |
| Double Negative and Flyboys
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Sep 24, 2006 - We speak with Alex Wuttke and Jody Johnson from Double Negative about the 3D and 2D approaches and solutions to the film. |
| Company 3 - DI Workflow
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Sep 19, 2006 - We speak to Erik Rogers at Company 3 in Los Angeles about their use of DaVinci color correctors for transferring and DI. |
| MATRIX compositing
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Sep 05, 2006 - We speak with Dan Tatu of CHROME Imaging about their MATRIX compositing product, which provides color grading, compositing, painting, and more |
| Online vfx training: fxphd
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Aug 20, 2006 - In this week's podcast we take a look at our sister site fxphd.com, which provides online training for vfx artists. |
| World Trade Center - Being Faithful
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Aug 16, 2006 - We speak with Pete Bebb, CG Supervisor, and Ryan Cook, Dynamics Supervisor, about Double Negative's work on the film. |
| Object tracking : PFtrack
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Aug 02, 2006 - Richard Spöhrer Managing Director of PixelFarm discusses the upcoming 3.5 release of PFtrack. |
| Superman Returns
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Jul 03, 2006 - Superman Returns thanks to director Bryan Singer, Visual Effects Supervisor Mark Stetson, and a large number of visual effects artists around the globe who worked to make the man of steel fly, see through walls, repel bullets and save the world. We cover this summer blockbuster in our one-year anniversary fxpodcast as well as in detail with our online story. |
| Shake 4.1: Interview with Apple
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Jun 28, 2006 - Dion Scoppettuolo, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Apple's Shake, talks about the rumours and reality regarding the recent Shake announcement. |
| The Deaths of Ian: Stan Winston Studios at fxguide
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Jun 23, 2006 - We chat with Mike Pryor, Head of Digital Production, about The Deaths of Ian. |
| Xmen 3 : Extreme Makeover
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Jun 12, 2006 - We talk to Greg Strause of Lola and Hydraulx, as well as visual effects supervisor John Bruno, about work on Xmen 3 |
| Mr. X Scares up Effects for Silent Hill
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May 13, 2006 - A conversation with Evan Jacobs about the visual effects done by Mr. X for the feature filme Silent Hill. |
| 'Poseidon' Fluid Simulations and ILM Visual Effects
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May 08, 2006 - A look at some of the visual effects behind the blockbuster 'Poseidon' movie. |
| Red Camera : A Peak Behind the Curtain
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May 05, 2006 - A look at the new Red Camera introduced at NAB? Is it for real or just vaporware? |
| NAB2006 Report - Wednesday April 26
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Apr 26, 2006 - In our final podcast from NAB, we explore some of the less obvious gems of the show and discuss the relevance of NAB as an event. |
| NAB2006 Report - Tuesday April 25
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Apr 25, 2006 - Roundtable and interviews covering: The Red Camera, Apple developments and SDK DVD produced by fxphd, Plug-ins, Filmlight, Gum... |
| NAB2006 Report - Monday April 24
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Apr 24, 2006 - Coverage of the annual Autodesk user group meeting and information about our new sister site, fxphd. |
| Digital Intermediate Colour Grading
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Apr 10, 2006 - Mike Seymour covers the ins and outs of digital grading with colourist Warren Lynch. |
| Autodesk Master Classes at NAB 2006
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Mar 27, 2006 - We speak with Jake Parker and Michael Ruzicka about their presentations at the flame and smoke master classes being held at NAB this year. |
| The Job Search
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Mar 21, 2006 - We speak with Teresa Hall of Muse recruitment about how vfx artists can best present themselves to prospective employers. |
| After Effects 7 32-bit Workflow
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Mar 13, 2006 - A conversation with Stu Maschwitz of the Orphanage about using a 32-bit linear color workflow in AE. Maschwitz has been an evangelist for using After Effects for high end projects. |
| Conversation with Bill Collis of The Foundry
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Feb 28, 2006 - Mike Seymour talks with Dr. Bill Collis, Head of Research at the London-based Founrdy. The Foundry develop the Furnace, Keylight, Tinder, and Anvil plugins. |
| A Look at After Effects 7.0
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Feb 20, 2006 - We talk with Steve Kilisky and David Simons of Adobe about the recent release of After Effects 7. |
| Matte Painting Part 3 : The Art
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Feb 12, 2006 - Examining the art and beauty of matte painting with senior matte painter Wayne Hagg |
| Matte Painting with Gerhard Mozsi
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Feb 06, 2006 - We speak with matte painter Gerhard Mozsi about his craft and his use of Adobe Photoshop to create both photoreal as well as concept art. |
| Visual Effect Society's Eric Roth
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Jan 29, 2006 - Discussion of credits, shows, awards, and the growing importance of the VES |
| Conversation with Mark Ruff
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Jan 19, 2006 - This week, we speak with Mark Ruff, a photographer who specialises in frozen moment multi-camera time splices. After many years with a film rig and then a digital rig, Mark has developed a near real-time system. |
| NUKE in a state of FLUX
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Dec 05, 2005 - In this week's podcast we talk to Jonathan Egstad, visual effects supervisor for the Paramount release "Aeon Flux" starring Charlize Theronvisa. |
| Checking in With Toxik 1.1
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Nov 28, 2005 - In this week's podcast, we check in for an update on Toxik with Autodesk's Chris Vienneau, who is the product manager for the application. |
| A Primatte Primer
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Nov 21, 2005 - We interview Scott Gross of IMAGICA Corporation of America, developers of the Primatte keying plug-in. |
| Flame and Inferno on Linux
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Nov 16, 2005 - We speak with Bill Roberts of Autodesk about he recent Linux product announcements. |
| Fusion Cooking with Version 5
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Oct 31, 2005 - We speak with Isaac Guenard, Senior Product Manager for eyeon, about the new features in the software and how they have been received by the users. |
| Mr. X and The Greatest Game Ever Composited
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Oct 24, 2005 - We speak with Aaron Weintraub from Mr. X in Toronto, Canada. The facility completed over 150 visual effects shots for the film. |
| Shake 4.0 SDK
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Oct 17, 2005 - A look at the Apple 4.0 Shake SDK with Dion Scoppettuolo, Senior Product Marketing Manager of Shake and Motion. |
| Cinefex: 25 Years
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Oct 11, 2005 - In this week's podcast we talk to Don Shay, the publisher of the world's leading authority and publication of record for the visual effects industry: Cinefex. |
| Smoke 7 Roundtable
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Oct 05, 2005 - A roundtable discussion about the recent smoke release as well as a look at the products support for Final Cut Pro XML. |
| Motion 2.0: fxPlug and More
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Sep 26, 2005 - We concentrate on the fxPlug SDK in Motion 2, as well as highlight a new set of Motion DVD templates. Guests are Ben Syverson - developer of DVMatte Blast, Sean Safreed -- partner at Red Giant Software, and Simon Maziak -- creator of MotionVFX DVD templates. |
| Digital Film Tools Plugins
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Sep 18, 2005 - Marco Paolini is a compositor and president of Digital Film Tools, a company that creates production proven plugins. Noteworthy for their digital simulation of optical filter, effects and camera effects, they also include a range of compositing tools developed in the firing line of feature film production at Digital Film Works. |
| The Big Ad
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Sep 06, 2005 - One of the most successful viral ad campaigns of recent times is Carlton Draught's Big Ad. In this weeks podcast we discuss the spot with Andrew Jackson, the visual effects supervsior from Animal Logic in Sydney. |
| 2005 Emmy Visual Effects Bakeoff
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Sep 05, 2005 - In this week's podcast we talk to one team from each of the two visual effects categories for this year's Emmys as well as discuss the first-ever bake off. |
| Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
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Aug 29, 2005 - We take an over view of this great film and then burn down on one sequence for an in depth look. Interviews with people at MPC, Framestore-CFC and Cinesite. |
| Sohonet - Dedicated to Connected Post
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Aug 10, 2005 - London-based Sohonet has targeted the the media and film industries by providing tools and a network that can carry massive files, quickly and at very low cost. In this week's fxpodcast, Mike Seymour gets the details from Dave Scammel, Managing Director for Sohonet. |
| Art of HDR - A Conversation with Paul Debevec
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Aug 04, 2005 - Mike Seymour interviews the father of HDR imagery, Paul Debevec, to learn how he invented HDR and what his latest research is investigating - with amazing results. |
| Double Negative Breaks Down Batman Begins - Pt 2
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Jul 25, 2005 - Mike Seymour talks with Paul Franklin from Double Negative about their work on Batman Begins. Part two of two. |
| Double Negative Breaks Down Batman Begins - Pt 1
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Jul 18, 2005 - Mike Seymour talks with Paul Franklin from Double Negative about their work on Batman Begins. Part one of two. |
| A52 Shows How Just One Man can be Massive
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Jul 11, 2005 - Massive software is well known for its epic shots in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but with the release of Massive 2.0 - we asked just how practical is it to use Massive in a 'normal' TV Ad spot? In this week's podcast we talk to A52's 3D team leader Craig "Xray" Halperin, about what it took for A52 to go from not even having the software to creating 10,000 agents celebrating two Clydesdale horse teams meeting in St.Louis on the 4th of July. |
| A Conversation with Marc Petit
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Jul 04, 2005 - We sit down with Marc Petit, Vice President Product Development and Operations, and discuss NAB, Toxik, the state of the current software, and his thoughts about Apple's recent moves. |
| Furious FX and Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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Jun 27, 2005 - In our first fxPodcast, Mike Seymour chatted with Scott Dougherty and David Lingenfelser about the company's work on Mr. & Mrs. Smith. |
The fxpodcast theme music is "Perfect Yet", an original composition by Darrin Hanley. Hanley is an both a musician and an experienced designer, flame and AE artist. If you'd like to hear more of Daz's music check out his website at www.manyarehere.com.
Our fxpodcast announcer is Henry Birdseye, a freelance Flame and After Effects artist whose most
recent side project can be found at www.fractaldvd.com.
 | fxPodcasts are produced entirely on Apple Macintosh computers running OSX 10.4. Applications used are Soundtrack, and Final Cut Pro, iTunes, and Amadeus II utilizing an Automator workflow. |
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