In two sad developments, Matte World Digital today announced it has closed its doors while Fuel VFX has gone into voluntary administration.

Visual effects helped shaped the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony – we look at some Olympics and Paralympics VFX notables.

Behind the scenes of three documentary promos for SBS by Method Studios. Includes a making of clip.

VFX supe Ajoy Mani on WorldwideFX’s work for The Expendables 2, with two breakdown reels.

Cookie Monster’s ‘Share Me Maybe’ has had more than 8 million views on YouTube. We look at how The Diamond Brothers directed the video and how the new DaVinci Resolve 9 was used for finishing.

We’re proud to announce a free behind the scenes iBook on the making of fxphd’s short film Moving Day.

Animating aliens, blowing up a cow, destroying a Costco: Digital Domain’s effects for The Watch.

Pixar is contributing to the open source community by making their interactive friendly, high speed Open SubDiv available to all.

A look at the recent MTV VMA nominations and some other killer music promos.

VFX supe David Houghton from The Mill tells us about the elemental visual effects in the new TV series Sinbad.

A look back at the success of Pixelux’s finite element analysis tool DMM – from LucasArts’ The Force Unleashed to MPC’s Prometheus ship destructions. And a peek into a new pre-made VFX online store using DMM tech.

Blue Sky Studios talks water sims, voxels, sky systems and characters for Ice Age: Continental Drift.

Behind the scenes of 3 VFX-filled ads with making of breakdowns from Method Studios, Alt.vfx and Rhythm & Hues.