Visual effects supervisor William Powloski breaks down the face off shot in the final season four episode of ‘Breaking Bad’.

The effects supes from soho VFX and Luma Pictures discuss their work on Andrew Niccol’s ‘In Time’.

We had an amazing response to our coverage of the Canon and RED announcements, so many people tried to access the server that we could not handle the traffic (in spite of doubling capacity). This graph illustrates the spike in traffic we saw that forced us to use a twitter account to get the word […]

With A Twist Studio breaks down its breath shots for ‘The Thing’. Includes a behind the scenes making of reel.

Psyop gives us the details on ‘The Great Happyfication’, its latest short for the Coca-Cola Happiness Factory series. Includes a specially made Psyop breakdown.

We take a look at two great vfx and filmmaking books, ‘Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation’ and ‘Star Wars: The Blueprints’.

Origami Digital breaks down its more than 1000 stylistic visual effects shots for Guy Moshe’s ‘Bunraku’, marked by constantly folding and unfolding paper-like buildings and skies.

The Optical Printer was the backbone of visual effects. With the start of the new term at fxphd, we present this sample class from last term on the Optical Printer at ILM and how it works in After Effects !

We review the new Sapphire version 6 for Autodesk Flame and Smoke. GenArts has quite an ambitious plan, one that embraces the high end rather than ignoring it. But not without a price, or rather a brassy price tag.

We talk to Rhythm & Hues about their invisible crowd visual effects shots on ‘Moneyball’. Includes behind the scenes ‘making of’ images.

We talk to Terra Nova visual effects supe Kevin Blank and Pixomondo’s Jason Zimmerman about the new Steven Spielberg dinosaur series. Also included are clips and images from our visit to the set in Queensland, Australia.

We go inside the secret (or not so secret) image research labs of Disney, with the Director of Disney Research Zurich, Dr. Markus Gross, to discuss its amazing global effort, its new found love of publishing, and we look to the next conference Disney will be publishing at; SIGGRAPH Asia.

Stereographer Robert Neuman discusses his work for the 3D conversion of ‘The Lion King’, a project that involved unarchiving the original Disney CAPS files and the creation of an entire depth score for the film.

Method visual effects supervisor Sean Faden discusses two epic TVCs featuring dancing hamsters and battling robots.

We talk to Image Engine and Pixel Liberation Front, two of several studios involved in the previs behind ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’. Includes previs clips and images.

With IBC 2011 in full swing, we spent the weekend traveling the show floor looking for interesting products and presentations. Consider this your virtual visit to the show. Here’s a look at some of the highlights we found.

We road test the new Canon mount for the Epic Camera with 120 fps 5K wild animals – and HDR fisheyes – all in a wild day of swinging and eating out, with monkeys, gorillas, lions and tigers.

Iloura delves into its creature work for the Guillermo del Toro film, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. Includes two vfx breakdowns.