The Foundry announced that they have begun shipping HIERO, their shot management, conform and review tool for VFX. Click through for the press release and links to other coverage here at fxguide.

Immersive design consortium 5D | Institute is holding series of integrated workshop discussions and panel presentations, spanning three evenings in Los Angeles starting March 13, 2012. “5D | FLUX’ will consist of 120-minute interactive sessions aimed at encouraging in-depth conversations about world-building across disciplines.

We remember Jean-Luc Bouchard who sadly passed away recently after a long battle with cancer. Jean-Luc worked at Discreet Logic, Nothing Real and Apple.

fxguide’s Mike Seymour recently got the chance to sit down with Blur Studio creative director and co-founder Tim Miller to discuss game cinematics, in cooperation with our media partners at The Daily.

The 5D Mark III is launched – here’s what we know.

New release of Houdini from Side Effects includes enhanced Pyro FX and FLIP fluids, Bullet integration, production-ready Cloth, and Alembic export.

Imageworks says it is leaving Albuquerque, Blizzard to lay off 600 workers, while Pixomondo will open new facility in Baton Rouge.

We take a quick look at Luxology’s latest release of its modo software for modeling, sculpting, 3D painting, animation and rendering.

Kim Masters writes for industry standard The Hollywood Reporter and is also host of the highly respected podcast and radio show The Business on KCRW. We explore big budget effects films, trends at the Studios and what it takes to produce a top rated radio show on Business in Hollywood.

We recently visited Rhythm & Hues in LA to talk to visual effects supervisor Raymond Chen about the flying scenes in Chronicle.

The Foundry is holding launch events for HIERO, their vfx shot management and conform tool, in LA (Feb 23rd), Toronto (Feb 28th), and NYC (Mar 1st). Click through for signup info and a link to our fxguidetv ep covering the software.

The BAFTA Film Awards winners have been announced, with Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 winning Best Special Visual Effects.

fxguide’s own Mike Seymour recently sat down at the VES Awards with Stan Lee of Marvel.

With only one day to go until on-line voting closes for the 10th Annual VES Awards, we thought we’d take a look at one of the companies who helped make the awards possible on a global scale – Sohonet.