Director David Karlak and visual effects supervisor Scott Metzger discuss their collaboration and use of Mari and Modo on the short film Rise.

fxguide visits DreamWorks Animation to see how their latest animated feature, Turbo, was made, including how the studio leveraged Side Effects Software’s Houdini and the OpenVDB library.

From SIGGRAPH 2013, we look at the computer animation festival Best in Show winner ‘a la Francaise’ and talk to Academy Award winner Chris Landreth about his new short ‘Subconscious Password’.

We visit ILM to discuss the Pacific Rim production pipeline with John Knoll, Eddie Pasquarello, Lindy De Quattro and Hal Hickel. The pipeline uses NUKE, Houdini, KATANA, Modo, Alembic, Arnold/RenderMan and ILM’s 3D and fluid destruction and muscle sim tools.

We visit Weta Digital to discuss the liquid geo displays and Krypton comm systems from Man of Steel. Plus, we preview the new term of VFX training courses at fxphd.com.

This week we sit down with two of the filmmakers behind A Cautionary Tail, a hybrid animated short starring Cate Blanchett, David Wenham and Barry Otto.

This week with the help of Lemac (Sydney) we talk about LED lights with Dedo Weigert, the founder of film, television and still lighting system maker Dedolight. In this episode we also highlight the new April 2013 term of visual effects courses over at fxphd.

This week on fxguidetv we talk to Upside Down assistant director and 2nd unit director Mario Janelle about his work on the film.

In this insightful CVMP presentation, Fredo Durand from MIT reveals visual content that is invisible to the naked eye, looking at, for example, recent computational techniques that can extract faint visual information from digital sensors, analyze it, amplify it and visualize it.

This week we feature a presentation made at CVMP in London by John Zubrzycki from BBC R&D on the use of ultra high definition cameras at the London Olympics.

VFX Scott Metzger demonstrates how he used a special build of The Foundry’s MARI tool to project HDR set-captured environment data onto geometry. The work was done for director Richard LaGravenese’s Beautiful Creatures, coming out in 2013.