Bruno Nicoletti, co-founder of the Foundry, on the tech behind their program of accelerating plugins for GPUs.

Andy Hendrickson, Brent Burley and Dan Candela join us for a technical discussion about Ptex, a high quality, optimized texture format and filtering library that Disney has made Open Source.

We talk with Paul Debevec who along with Tim Hawkins, John Monos and Mark Sagar were presented a Scientific and Engineering Oscar for the Light Stage.

Lee Stranahan has ignited a serious conversation about the treatment of visual effects workers with an open letter to James Cameron in the Huffington Post. We talk to him about the reaction.

Steve Hulett of The Animation Guild joins us again to discuss visual effects and labor issues.

In part 3 of our series on Avatar we talk with Dana Batali from the Pixar Renderman team and Christian Kaestner, compositing supervisor from Framestore.

John Knoll, ILM vfx supervisor, on collaborating with Weta and stereoscopic for “Avatar”.

Joe Letteri, senior vfx supervisor for Weta Digital, details their mocap/facial capture tech and other aspects of their work on Avatar.

Industry pioneer Scott Ross is our guest as we talk about visual effects history and the future of the business.

An in-depth discussion about color management workflow with Brian Gaffney and Dan Lion from Technicolor Creative Bridge

We speak with GenArts’ CMO Steve Bannerman and VP of Engineering/Chief Scientist Gary Oberbrunner about the upcoming release of Sapphire version 5.

Alex Wuttke, Double Negative visual effects supervisor, about two main sequences from 2012.

We talk with Ed Ulbrich (Digital Domain) about the newly formed Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) Digital and what it means for artists and companies.

https://media.fxguide.com/fxpodcast/fxg-091021-previs.mp3 Play in new window DownloadThe Previsualization Society was officially announced today to “focus on producing and publishing information and resources to promote effective previs through key activities such as promoting standards, education, workflow development and practical knowledge exchange”. Founding members of the Previsualization Society are: David Dozoretz, Founder, Director and VFX Supervisor, Persistence of […]

We geek out with 3D guru Master Zap about linear compositing workflow, separating fact from fiction.

Jeff Heusser talks with Andreas Wacker, founder of INTERDUBS, a clip hosting company for post houses and production facilities.

We talk about creating an acid trip with VFX supervisor Brendan Taylor from Mr. X

For District 9, writer/director Neill Blomkamp turned to a host of Vancouver-based studios, along with Weta Workshop and Weta Digital in New Zealand, to provide alien creatures and other effects for the film. fxguide profiles the work of Image Engine, The Embassy Visual Effects, Zoic Studios and Goldtooth Creative in bringing Blomkamp’s vision to life.

For Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, director Michael Bay enlisted ILM and Digital Domain to create several new characters and blockbuster action for the sequel to his monster 2007 hit. Mike Seymour speaks to ILM’s Digital Production Supervisor Jeff White in this week’s fxpodcast. In our online article, Ian Failes speaks to Digital Domain’s Visual Effects Supervisor Matthew Butler and CG Supervisor Paul George Palop about their work.

This week we look at digital and practical effects on Terminator Salvation with ILM and Kerner Optical

Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of the Visual Effects Society, sits with us to discuss the mission and latest news from the VES.

A conversation with ILM vfx supervisor Roger Guyett about the film Star Trek.

Director Michael Gracey tells us about filming large crowds for two viral campaigns for T-Mobile.

We talk with friends as well as fxphd post grads and professors about what they saw on the first day of the show. Recorded live at a party sponsored by The Foundry, Sohonet and da vinci.

A conversation with Gary Einhaus, CTO and General Manager of Kodak Digital Cinema, about new technology and research at Kodak.

Rich Hoover, visual effects supervisor on Valkyrie about the complexity of doing such a powerful historical film.

Visual Effects in the movie Australia with artist Peter Webb from Iloura Pictures.