fxphd.com worked on two short films that are in competition in the Sundance Film Festival. Each day for 10 days Sundance makes available one film for free and on the first day (Jan. 18th, 2008) it was “I Love Sarah Jane”. The other film, “Spider” is scheduled to be the closing film of the ten day online selections.

fxphd was involved with these films to produce footage for students to use and have an opportunity to participate in the project, giving them experience and film credit on a real project. Over 8000 films were entered into Sundance so we are very proud to have two projects make it into the film festival.

The short film festival can be found here: http://www.sundance.org/festival/shorts

We’ve just released our Background Fundamentals Orientation Week special episode over at fxphd. It provides an overview of what’s going on during the term over at our sister vfx training site….I think you’ll see why were excited about the October07 Term. We’ve got a ton of great courses and professors lined up, including RED camera workflow, flame, smoke, Nuke, PFTrack, Z-Brush, Apple Color, a DVRebel course and more. If you haven’t visted there lately, we suggest you do…..

Download and watch the QuickTime movie via torrent.

We are really excited by the July 07 term and the courses on offer at fxphd.com. As part of our plans for this term, we have a Siggraph Special Service!

A key part of Siggraph’s appeal is the job market. To help you, if you’re going to Siggraph - we are offering to individually review your reel and offer personalized advice. We will give you our expert advice on how to adjust your reel - what we think works - what we doesn’t, - so that when you show the recruiters and companies at Siggraph you have the best chance for getting your dream job!

Contact us via the PRIVATE MESSAGE system of fxphd.com and give us a link to your reel - or we will give you an ftp to upload it to. We will then tailor a personal recommendation for you from our senior team.

This is ONLY for current paid up members of fxphd.com We hope you will use this new free service and benefit from it.

Fxguide will be doing even more with Siggraph this year - look for more here at fxguide and over at fxphd.com.

Our visual effects training site fxphd.com has information on the upcoming July07 term, which was just announced. Based upon feedback from members, we worked hard to build upon our first year and make the term even better than past terms. We’ve got new courses with accompanying VPN software (for non-commercial use) for The Foundry’s Nuke (Version 4.7), Imagineer Systems’ Monet/Mokey/Motor, and The Pixel Farm’s PFTrack.

These are all courses asked for by fxphd postgrads and we’re happy to bring them to you. In addition, we’re bringing back a greatest hits of past courses, including Advanced Flame and a replay of Background Fundamentals from Term 2. VPN versions of Toxik and Maya are also available to fxphd postgrads. All in all, between new courses and replays of past favorites, a full 15 selections are available for fxphd members.

Checkout fxphd.com for more details.